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Provide an example of an interactive lesson based on a Christian philosophy of education.
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Teach on the ‘Fruit of the Spirit’ and show how Christ exemplified each fruit of the Spirit. Then to help students learn hoe to appropriate that very ‘Fruit of the Spirit’ into their lives, hence becoming more like Christ. Such a study is broken down into multiple lessons with an up-close look at Christ and his ministry to others in the gospels.
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One example that I like that she gave you is using literature, you can break it apart with the fruits of the spirit, different parts of stories in the Bible comparing an evil character to an evil person in the Bible…
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I plan on doing a color mixing activity using Play-doh (Ex: red and blue to purple or yellow and blue to green or yellow and red to orange) with my elementary students. The bigger lesson will be how we are a new creation when we ask Christ into our lives. Once the kids have mixed the Play-doh into a completely new color (creation), I’m going to ask for the initial 2 colors back. I’m going to be somewhat adamant about them separating the 2 colors for me. The kids will obviously be unable to do so. I want them to articulate why they can’t give me those 2 colors back. Mirroring their responses, I want to stress to them that when Jesus lives in our hearts, we are also a new creation to the point that our “old selves/behavior” is often unrecognizable to the new person we are in Christ. I also want to stress that when we have difficult days and may not feel His presence, He is most certainly still there.
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I was interested in Dr. Black’s approach to an “interactive” lesson, connecting it to scripture. While integrating lessons with biblical principles is an important part of what I do, I hadn’t thought of that as being “interactive.” I think we can wed her defintion with another idea of interactive, which can involve authentic conversations, interacting with each other as well. A common way I base lessons on a Christian philosophy is to have students consider the big questions of literature and compare their ideas with those of their classmates. They frequently disagree on what an author is trying to say, and that’s an important skill I want them to develop — seeing the complexity of the questions raised. They may even disagree on the answers to those big questions in light of scripture, but searching scripture narrows the field for answers and provides training in discerning the difference between the answers with and without God’s truth as a foundation.
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We connect Biblical truths by connecting our teaching to the metanarrative of Creation, Fall, Redemption, and Glorification. (CFRG). This is a school wide narrative.