This course is designed to meet the needs of Christian teachers who desire to improve their skills in biblical worldview formation. It distinguishes a secular approach to education from a Christian approach, presents a method for planning and writing instruction from a Christian perspective, and provides a tool for evaluating Christian educational materials. Both semesters and summer, three hours.
A biblical worldview is the most significant framework that a Christian administrator or educator can establish. in his or her students. It is the fabric of the classroom, not something merely compartmentalized in a lesson. But how do you engage the necessary conversations in the classroom or with other educators for transformative gospel living?
This three-credit course has been crafted to help Christian schoolteachers and administrators improve their skills in developing biblical worldview formation in K-12 education. After completion of this course, the educator will be able to:
- Articulate the function and necessity of a biblical worldview.
- Analyze the basics of biblical worldview.
- Distinguish a secular approach versus a Christian approach to education.
- Develop a strategy for biblical worldview shaping in the classroom.
- Design lesson plans that foster meaningful biblical integration in the classroom.
- Develop instruction that is dependent on the biblical worldview scope document, using materials provided by a secular publisher.
- Evaluate Christian educational materials.
- Write a personal Christian philosophy of education.