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How do your answers to “the big questions of life” discussed in this lesson influence you in your role as an educator?
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What I personally believe about the answers to these questions of life will absolutely impact what biases and verbage I communicate to my students as I delve into the curriculum, especially with the subjects that I teach specifically…science and history. Science can be taught from a biblical worldview or an evolutionary point of view. When we dive into the why and how behind a topic like fossils, for example, I can either point to events in the Bible such as the Flood for answers or express the guesses of scientists that rely on change by chance. The Bible offers clarity and order to our lessons with a solid foundation to build concepts on.
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I think it influences my role as an educator because it reminds me to keep Christ the center of everything. I loved how she spoke about teaching in different areas and how no matter how little they had they were determined to learn because it was all focused on Christ.
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It affects how I see my students and treat them. It helps me find small ways to insert God’s truth by sharing wisdom and my opinion with the students. It shapes all of my lessons.
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My answers to “the big questions of life,” influence how I live my life and how I model my life to students. They see through my words and actions what it is that I believe.
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In Genesis 1:26, God declared to Himself as Elohim, the triune God, to make man after his own image, which is in stark contrast to Marxist notions of Dialectic Materialism – where man is simply matter void of any connection to a higher power, accidental, and of no consequence to the larger order. This point of departure is why my role as an educator is important. We have intrinsic value and matter and play a role in God’s larger plans if we are taught and are willing.