Teaching Redemptively: Bringing Grace and Truth Into Your Classroom

by Donovan L. Graham

Paperback, 2003

Status

Available

Description

"As God's image bearers, Christian teachers are called to reflect the character of our creative, redemptive God and to live according to His truth. This book encourages and challenges Christian teachers in any setting, public or private, secular or Christian, to teach redemptively--to employ biblical principles in all aspects of the educational process."-- p.4 of cover

Publication

Purposeful Design Publications (2003), 291 pages

Language

ISBN

1583310584 / 9781583310588

Barcode

12265

Contents

Part 1: Beginning considerations --
The complaint: all that claims to be Christian may not be --
Building something biblical --
Creation-Fall-Redemption: a framework for building --
The grace of the gospel and redemptive teaching --
Part 2: Biblical beliefs that are foundational for redemptive teaching --
Beliefs about purpose --
Biblical norms for educational purpose --
Secular distortions of purpose --
Distortions in Christian thinking about purpose --
Beliefs about the learner --
God's image in individuals --
God's image in relationship to others --
The image marred --
The image restored --
Beliefs about the teacher --
An image bearer who is also fallen --
Personal characteristics of a redemptive teacher --
The roles teachers fulfill --
Beliefs about the learning process --
Basic ideas about learning --
Motivation and learning --
A conceptual framework for learning --
Engaging in learning --
Beliefs about subject matter --
Perspectives in content --
Content and the world around us --
Part 3: Redemptive teaching at work: building on norms and teaching with grace --
A different kind of place: Omega Christian School --
Curriculum design --
Learning activities --
Measurement, evaluation, and grading --
Classroom behavior and discipline --
Doing it on your own: Planning for implementation.
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