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What do you hope to gain from this course? In what specific areas do you hope to grow as a Christian educator?
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I hope to use this time and course to focus my desire to share Christ in a way that my students have a deep thirst to know God more personally.
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Having been in Christian education for many decades, I am struck by how hard it is today. The world is much different today than when I first entered teaching in the early 80s. I’m much different too. Perhaps parents are choosing to send their kids to Christian schools today, not so much as to gain a solid Christian worldview by which to make decisions and live their lives, but that it is just another option for private school education. I need a new fire to know that I’m making a difference in the lives of my students. I hope through this course to regain a new HOPE that is waning, that even for one student, the work that we collectively do as a school makes a difference in the person they choose to be, and develop hearts of caring and compassion, and choose to seek lives that would please Christ Jesus.
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To develop strategies as a Christian educator and implement them in my classroom. It is challenging for a Christian educator to find him/herself teaching in a none Christian school environment.
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To understand the role of which Christian philosophy of education plays in the world and how to effectively pass down knowledge, values, and truth to every student I teach.
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I hope to gain knowledge of those practices that I must share as a Christian educator. I hope to grow in the teaching ministry.