Educating Toward Wisdom
CONTENT:
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Introduction, Table of Contents
Community
1. Guiding Questions
- How Do We Forge a Community for Learning?
- Communities, Organizations, and People
- Teachers as Colleagues
3. Activities (12 Activities)
- Promoting Christian Community
- On Being a Professional
5. Recommended Resources
Vision
1. Guiding Questions
- Living the Questions of Life
- Christian Schooling: Telling a worldview story
- Transformation: Dynamic worldview or repressive ideology?
3.1 Building Vision School-wide (9 Activities)
3.2 Deepening Biblical Vision (4 Activities)
- Clarifying and Applying a Statement of Mission
- Cultivating Christian Discernment
- Discipleship
5. Recommended Resources
Curriculum
1. Guiding Questions
- Does Our Curriculum Inspire?
- How Do We Think About Curriculum?
- The Integral Curriculum
3.1 School-wide Curriculum Plans (11 Activities)
3.2 Classroom Unit Planning (10 Activities)
- Addressing Real Problems and Generating Real Products
- Providing Variety and Connections to Real Life
- Curriculum Leadership
5. Recommended Resources
Pedagogy
1. Guiding Questions
- How Can We Create Places Where Learning Flourishes?
- Excellent Teaching
- Learning is a Prayerful Process
3.1 Teacher Learning (9 Activities)
3.2 Student Learning (8 Activities)
- Rooted...and Flourishing
- What are we Learning about Learning?
- Attending to Each Student's Development
- Recasting the Teacher's Role
5. Recommended Resources
Assessment
1. Guiding Questions
- Assessment as Gift: A Vision
- How Do We Evaluate Student Learning?
- What Do We Do About Professional and Government Standards and Tests?
3.1 Student Assessment (14 Activities)
3.2 School Assessment (4 Activities)
- The On-going Challenge of Assessment
- Assessment OF, FOR and AS Learning
5. Recommended Resources
