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Share one or two ways you embed biblical principles in your lessons. If you don’t already do so, describe how a teacher you know does it.
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With my background in secular schools, I have ideas how to embed biblical principles in lessons but have not done so as yet. I have not observed my Christian school colleagues so do not have a clear idea of how they accomplish this biblical integration. I will take time to process and plan for the coming year.
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One thing that I try to do in my phonics lessons is to do a craft or just pass out items to go with our special sound. When studying the special sound “squ”, we did a squeegee painting. At the bottom of each painting, I printed Psalm 51:10 “Create in me a clean heart, O God”. I talked about what squeegees are used for and how our hearts are dirty from sin. When we seek forgiveness of our sins, God wipes them away just as the squeegee wipes away water/dirt from windows.
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I am going into my 2nd year at a Christian School and I feel like I am integrating more biblical concepts into my curriculum every day.
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I am blessed to be provided with Biblically integrated curriculum, which makes it much easier to tie each lesson back to Biblical principles. I teach 6th grade, and in history we learn about ancient civilizations. We spend a lot of time looking at the religions of the ancient religions and comparing and contrasting them with Biblical truth. Many of the students point out how amazing our God in and how he loves us. We discuss how incredible it is that the one true God sent his son as our salvation and to serve us in contrast to many false religions in which people have to work to please and serve their false gods. In science, we also discuss how some worldviews in relation to evolution and other topics differ from that of a Biblical worldview. It’s fun to see the students correlate the lessons we are learning back to scripture.
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In each subject, especially in those with a secular curriculum, we compare and contrast what the curriculum teaches as truth with what the Bible teaches. As mentioned in the last answer, while teaching ELA there will often be stories which seem to promote wrong attitudes. As a class, we come up with scriptures stating what our attitudes should be towards, for example, unforgiveness.