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How does your understanding of mankind’s fallen nature impact your work in the classroom?
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When we look at our students understanding that they are “fearfully and wonderfully made” in the image of God, we know that they have a Godly established value from the start, so that when we see the fallen and sinful side of our students, we can send them to the cross for repentance and forgiveness.
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The message reminded me to use mankind’s fallen nature to explain the need for rules. I believe teaching the rules and setting the expectations will support an effective learning environment. Encompassing the Fruits of the Spirit in my classroom will also strengthen the environment. In addition to our fallen nature impacting my classroom is a loss of social skills and manners that may have become enhanced due to school shut downs.
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I never expect my students to always do the right thing. I expect my students to make mistakes and to use them as a learning opportunity.
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This is perhaps the most important central theme when teaching in a history course. Most of mankind’s history is anything but good or wholesome. When we discuss difficult topics in my course, we always come back to the fact that we live in a fallen, evil world. This is why bad things occur and why even the most horrifying acts of evil should not surprise us.
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Knowing we all have a fallen nature, I am not taken off guard when there is bad behavior but seek to have an orderly classroom where expectations are clear and everyone (including me) is held accountable. I pray that my classroom is bathed in grace and truth, knowing redemptions is available in any situation as we submit to God’s ways.
