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Affective Teaching: A Place for Emotion in Classroom Learning
Tertiary
"Teaching and learning nearly always take place in a social context. Intellectual growth also brings about changes in the social and emotional facets of both teachers and students. Teaching and learning are greatly affected by the quality of relationships...
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Back to School - One More Chance
Kindergarten-Grade 12
Teachers have the chance every day to make a difference in the lives of their students. "Let us not be weary in well doing for at the right time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up." Galatians 6:9
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Bonding - The Teacher-Student-Parent Connection
Kindergarten-Grade 12
Bonding between teacher, student, and parent creates a winning team that benefits not only the individuals concerned, but also the school itself. Bonding builds upon the basic foundation of connecting, interacting, and sharing. The six ideals of bonding, based...
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Bridging the Gap - Home Visits
Preschool-Grade 1
Sharing personal experience, Mattu notes the benefits of visiting in the homes of each student prior to a new school year.
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Calming the Confronter
Kindergarten-Grade 12
Meeting students' human needs outside the classroom can smooth academic progress. An English teacher's story of the transformation of a student's in-class behavior.
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Challenging and Defiant Students
Kindergarten-Grade 8
Understanding the reasons for a student's defiance is necessary to help the student. Understanding ways to meet the student's defiance is necessary to help the teacher. This article lists how teachers should talk to defiant students. It also suggests how teachers...
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Classroom Management- a Christian perspective
Kindergarten-Grade 8
A fresh look at classroom management from a Christian perspective. Suggested activities include the Golden Rule, Prayer Chain Acts of Kindness, Fruit of the Spirit, Respectful Role Playing, and Honesty.
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Companionship and Communication -- The Key to Successful Teaching
Kindergarten-Grade 12
Teachers gain their students' confidence and love through companionship and communication, the keys to successful teaching. Good teacher-student relationships are established outside the classroom. The author shares ways that she builds relationships and shares...
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Educational Excellence - For Time and Eternity
Kindergarten-Grade 12
What does excellence look like in Adventist Christian schools? Mike Lekic shares insights on what excellence represents in Adventist Christian education, along with ideas on how excellence can be achieved.
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Get Real!
Kindergarten-Grade 12
Solomon discusses how being "real" with students speaks louder than the book knowledge we teach them. The best way a teacher can assure they are being real is by having a relationship with Jesus Christ.
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Good Judgment - A Teacher Devotional
Kindergarten-Lifelong
Every moment of the school day a teacher is making judgment calls that need the wisdom of God and counsel with other professionals. Explore the issue of good judgment in this devotional reading.
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Growing with Early Childhood Education
Kindergarten-Grade 2
In this TEACH Journal article, the author becomes conscious of the changes that have affected not only early childhood education, but also herself.
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In Cathy's Classroom: Creating Community in a Multi-ethnic Classroom
Grade 1-Grade 8
"Forming close-knit relationships in a multi-ethnic classroom is a challenge faced by an increasing number of teachers in a shrinking world. Every young child wants to (and needs to) feel that they belong. A bright-eyed fourth grader, Anna, stated during...
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Influential Educators
Tertiary-Lifelong
Chant shares several stories of influential educators that he has worked with over the years.
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Learning - With Love
Kindergarten-Grade 12
The story of how a teacher used love to help a student both inside and outside the classroom. Love is the foundation of true education, according to Ellen G. White.
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Our Challenges
Kindergarten-Grade 12
Teacher's lives are full of challenges. In this devotional reading reconnect with the ultimate challenge of Christian education and know that God will equip you to do what He asks.
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Prayer Journaling
Kindergarten-Grade 12
"We e-mail and text message every day at least once, but what about our prayer life and praying for those around us. "Mazier suggests using prayer journals in the classroom and in a teacher’s person life. "It may help you and your students...
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Putting Spice into College Teaching
Tertiary
Ideas for making lectures a lively learning experience for college students. Generalizations are that no teacher can meet the needs of all the students all the time; the best teacher is the one with integrity and a strong character; and, teachers must never...
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Relationships for Eternal Success
Kindergarten-Grade 12
Jamieson & Hammel discuss how teachers impact their students lives by the relationships that they build with them. A teacher is only successful as a teacher when their students are successful in their academics, in life, and for eternity.
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Respect for Learners - a Christian Didactic Perspective
Tertiary-Lifelong
Sutcliffe's aim is to "convince the educator of the crucial importance of treating every learner with the utmost respect, especially in a Christian educational institution."
This paper was presented at the 28th Institute of Christian Teaching.