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Identify one or two practical ways you can help prepare your students for the struggles they’ll face in the world.
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One practical way I want to prepare my students for the world outside of school is help them relate to how skills they learn and use in the classroom (and other engagements) are tools they will use when facing trials and hardship as they grow older and are no longer in school. I want them to understand how important working hard in this season is because it really does prepare them for the next season of life.
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The big emphasis in all of our Bible courses is Scripture is the final authority. We are working to train our students up to compare everything they are taught against Scripture regardless if it is a secular professor or your Pastor on Sunday. Always compare what is being said with the truth of Scripture.
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Continue to remind students that the gospel is not about worldly prosperity, but relationship to God. In so doing, students will not be surprised when later faced with difficulty and hardship.
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I like to roll play in my classroom. We struggled this year with very selfish behavior. The kids would fight over being first to sit in their desk, the first to hand in a paper, etc… So, one day, I made them act out this silly behavior. They of course thought I had lost my mind, but who knows maybe they are right. 🙂 I tried to get them to see how silly this was. Does it really matter if I sit down first or second or last for that matter? I then shared the Bible verse from Matthew 20:16 “So the last shall be first, and the first shall be last: for many be called, but few chosen.”
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One way that I like to use to prepare my students for challenges that they will face is that I share the story: about a mountain climber that if you go straight up the mountain you never see all of its glory. If takes The mountain climber no time. But The mountain climber has no challenges and you learn nothing , and see sees nothing and ask God for no help . He just go straight. But when The mountain climber travel around the mountain going through different areas to reach his destination. The mountain climber comes upon curves and bends that he wasn’t prepared for but through each one of those curves he looks to the Lord for guidance he asked for help and he learns and he sees amazing things. When he gets to the top of the mountain he can look back and see I had tons of challenges but each challenge brought me closer to the Lord and what the Lord has for me. That being said I believe we need to teach her students using the Bible to show them that God has not promised us an easy path but he has promise to always be by our side and that God has plans for us no matter what direction they come from.