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How do the concepts discussed in this lesson apply to your work in your classroom?
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Every student who enters my classroom has grappled or will grapple with the BIG QUESTIONS of life – those that address purpose and calling. My job as a Christian educator is to help them understand that God and His word have the answer to these questions. He has created them on purpose, for a purpose, and with a purpose.
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In my classroom, this discussion would be another opportunity for my students and me to solve a problem using different strategies to find evidence of our existence, etc. Having a Christian philosophy will assist me in the way I deliver my lessons each day.
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I think the main concept that I took away from this lecture is the idea that sometimes you just need to be there for your students. Another idea is that we are educating these students for eternity. We are educating them to know God for the future and to learn how to take Him with them wherever they go even after they leave your classroom. I love our biblical worldview curriculum. In one of the units, we focus on the essential questions (Who am I? How did I get here? What is my purpose?) We focused on them being made in the image of God, that they are loved and fearfully and wonderfully made. Being a teacher means living, breathing, walking, talking, investing in students and families.
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As an educator, I have the opportunity to impact lots of children on a daily basis. It’s important to me to make sure that I know what my philosophy is. I am a creation of God and I have an eternal soul. I am anchored in God The more we know that, the more we can show students that God is our creator and he anchors us. The more they will trust him and accept him, the better off we will be.
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These concepts impact everything I do in a classroom from the way I present myself, to the way I view each learner as an individual. Many educators are taught to look at each student from a “whole-istic” perspective. The problem is unless you are a Christian, you cannot educate a child in every way that child needs. Leaving out the spiritual component is not truly teaching to the whole child. The ways I approach a secular classroom and Christian classroom are much the same. I exemplify the beatitudes. I live 1Corinthians 13. I Live John 3:16. I teach Exodus 20 (Ten Commandments). The difference is in a Christian environment, I can speak the actual words and show students where in the Bible the examples for living are contained. In a secular environment, I am limited to speaking about those things and actually being a living example is more important because there is so much I cannot say. I have experience in both realms, Christian School and Public School. I don’t fit in a public school well. Their perspective on students and how we educate them or even treat them and each other is different. Yet, I find it difficult to become employed in a Christian school because those that are there are often there until they can’t be anymore.
