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Why is it imperative that Christian educators have a Christian philosophy of education?
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A Christian philosophy is needed for Christian education to exist, like was stated in our lecture. An educational philosophy is the basis for everything that occurs in your classroom, from how you interact with and treat your students, teach your students, what they learn, etc., so basing your philosophy off God’s word and teachings helps integrate God throughout the classroom, which helps students develop Biblical worldviews and knowledge from a Christian perspective.
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What we bring to the classroom impacts our students. If we do not have a Christian philosophy of education we are not keeping Christ in our classroom and our students are not learning our Him through us.
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As a christ believer and educator it is imperative that teachers have the philosophy of educator to embark upon the course. A Christian educator will be challenged throughout their career, but with accountable and an full armour of God on. Since, a teacher spends the majority of the day with these children, it is important to live out what the Bible says. As we train a child up in the lord, he will never depart. School is just not about the book work, but it is also about raising sound citizens that will impact the future and contriubute to society
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It is imperative that us as Christian educators have a Christian philosophy of education so that we are accountable for our actions as a teacher and co-worker. It is our job as teachers to make sure they we are feeding them the world and helping them to apply it in real life. To help train them up as the bible speaks of. As an educator I feel my job is to not only teach them their subjects, but most importantly to have a relationship with the Lord.
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I believe that we do need to have conviction, and we also need to train up the next generations, teaching them what it means to have a Christian philosophy of education. Through having personal convictions we can help share this with others and pass this on to encourage and raise up the future generation.