While I found several sites that talked about integrating a biblical worldview into my lesson plans, these were the three I decided upon. On the website http://teach4theheart.com/2014/04/28/should-teachers-leave-their-faith-at-home/ I found a small blog that talked about teachers feeling the need to leave their faith at the door of their Public School jobs. While this does not directly relate to how I would infuse a biblical worldview into my lessons it did give me encouragement that I could have a biblical worldview in my lessons even if I worked in a public school system. I currently work in a public school and it is a struggle for me to show or teach openly about the Bible, but in this blog Linda Kardamis says, “There’s nothing stopping
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As I have stated, I currently work in a public school and hope to continue to do so after I have obtained my degree. So, as a Christian working in a public school, I would choose to integrate this view the best way I could. For example, on the website http://biblicalintegration.com/write-a-lesson-plan/ there were not only ideas on how to lesson plan with a biblical worldview, but also how to brainstorm ideas for entire units in a subject, weaving worldview throughout the unit not just one or two lessons. This would be useful to me as then I would be able to integrate a biblical worldview on a daily basis, but also maintain the standards that are asked of me by the state. I enjoyed reading the articles on the website http://transformingteachers.org/en/articles/biblical-integration/stories-for-teachers because it gave be ideas on how, when teaching lessons I could use real life people from our past to help infuse a biblical worldview without violating any public school laws of separation of church and state. I love history and having the idea to use famous men and women from history to tell their Faith story is a great way for me to share Christ with my students in a historical way. Finally, I want to show the love of Christ to my students daily in everything I do not just my lesson plans. Psalms 127:3 (NIV) says, “Children are a heritage from the LORD, offspring a reward from him.” While I may work at a public school and not feel like I can share my faith openly, there is no law saying that I cannot show God’s love through my actions and speech at school and that is something I will continue to do as a teacher in my lessons and
As I have stated, I currently work in a public school and hope to continue to do so after I have obtained my degree. So, as a Christian working in a public school, I would choose to integrate this view the best way I could. For example, on the website http://biblicalintegration.com/write-a-lesson-plan/ there were not only ideas on how to lesson plan with a biblical worldview, but also how to brainstorm ideas for entire units in a subject, weaving worldview throughout the unit not just one or two lessons. This would be useful to me as then I would be able to integrate a biblical worldview on a daily basis, but also maintain the standards that are asked of me by the state. I enjoyed reading the articles on the website http://transformingteachers.org/en/articles/biblical-integration/stories-for-teachers because it gave be ideas on how, when teaching lessons I could use real life people from our past to help infuse a biblical worldview without violating any public school laws of separation of church and state. I love history and having the idea to use famous men and women from history to tell their Faith story is a great way for me to share Christ with my students in a historical way. Finally, I want to show the love of Christ to my students daily in everything I do not just my lesson plans. Psalms 127:3 (NIV) says, “Children are a heritage from the LORD, offspring a reward from him.” While I may work at a public school and not feel like I can share my faith openly, there is no law saying that I cannot show God’s love through my actions and speech at school and that is something I will continue to do as a teacher in my lessons and