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This book provides a brief but pointed discussion concerning the importance of Christian school education "from cradle to grave." If the decision of where to attend church is important, (and it truly is), consider that K–12 schooling consumes more than seven times the amount of time in a child's life than does church, alone ensuring a powerful influence. A must read for teachers, administrators, and parents.

This interactive CD provides a rationale for welcoming international students to Christian schools, steps to start an international student program (ISP), information on how to work with students and host families, professionally-designed applications and other forms that can be filled in electronically, and handbooks that are ready to use as is with your ISP. Other sample documents include job descriptions, rules and conditions, welcome letters, and much more.

What would it take for Christian educators to not only survive but even thrive in the challenging circumstances of the public school? To make a difference, in students' lives, educators must realize that lives are changed through relationship, and such relationships are built on grace. The big act of grace is to treat students as image bearers of God. 216 pages.

The atmosphere of a program and its classrooms set the stage for learning, relationships, and curiosity to develop and mature. As the gateway to formal schooling, an early education center has the responsibility to invite children to experience the world around them with all of their senses. Great as an in-service with your staff or for an individual teacher, this training will encourage early education staff to look at their space with fresh eyes. Take your staff on a virtual tour through environments all over the world as you discuss and evaluate your own strengths and weaknesses.

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The life of a preschooler includes the creation of art and original ideas. Young children are full of imagination, and teachers have the opportunity to give them an avenue to express themselves through this medium. This training component, used for in-service training or for individual development, shows what young children are capable of when given the chance to create. Learn how to provide children with the inspiration, materials, guidance, and tools to be creative. The process of creating is more beneficial than the final product. That's Process Art—art that places the emphasis upon the learning taking place.

To instill the love of reading into a child is to give that child a priceless gift. This training component can be used as an in-service training or for individual teachers to learn how to make reading and literacy part of your classroom life. Follow an experienced teacher as she shares her ideas for making class books with young children. You will be inspired to take pre-literacy to the next level and instill a love of reading into the children you teach. Additional tools are provided to assist directors in leading their staffs into literacy discussions and implementation of new ideas.

Evaluation, reflection, action, repeat. This training component can be used by directors to lead their teams in a yearlong personal/peer evaluation process around a teacher's disposition and classroom habits. It contains five reflective essays about an early educator's role in the classroom. It expands into personal (and/or peer) reflectio and evaluation of necessary dispositions in eight component areas. Each component area includes a goal-setting worksheet, allowing the early educator to focus on the mastery of each area.

This revised edition is a complete resource for teaching Mastering Bible Study Skills. The course’s format allows the teacher to praise students for insight and effort, and encourage them to persevere in personal Bible study. The teacher resource kit provides:

Step-by-step lesson plans
Lecture notes
Concise formats for student projects
Rubrics to expedite grading
Answer keys
45 blackline masters
(Spiral, One-semester course, Level 2; Grades 9–10; Revised 2011)

The goals of Mastering Bible Study Skills are to ignite interest in, encourage, and provide skills for personal Bible study for both students and teachers.

Modeled after Howard Hendricks’ Methods of Bible Study course at Dallas Theological Seminary, it is organized around three basic steps in inductive Bible study method–observation, interpretation, and application.

The course’s format allows the teacher to praise students for insight and effort, and encourage them to persevere in personal Bible study.

(One-semester course, Level 2; Grades 9–10; Revised 2011)

This revised course is a study of the nature and characteristics of God. It is designed on the premise that the more we know and understand God through a careful study of His Word, the greater will be our personal challenge to maintain a right relationship with Him.

The teacher edition provides extensive lesson suggestions, blackline masters, and an evaluation system. The methodology of the course includes a creative hands-on approach and extends to the application of biblical principles in daily life.

(Spiral, One-semester course, Level 2; Grades 9–10; Revised 2011)