Rooftop Perspectives

focusing education

Disciple your students toward faith,

develop their love for wisdom, and cut the puppet’s strings.
  • Home
  • About
  • Blog
  • Books
  • Workshops
  • Contact
  • glossary
focusing education

Uncategorized

Even more focused teaching with Focused Essential Questions

23 February, 2014 by Eric Reenders 1 Comment

In my last post we looked at Focus Questions. I ended the post asking how we could make them easier for our students to answer and since we want our students to grow in wisdom, and not be puppets, we can’t just take the easy way out and tell them the answers. So, how do … [Read more…]

Share this:

  • Tweet
  • Print
  • Email
  • More
  • Share on Tumblr
Posted in: Essential Focused Questions, Uncategorized Tagged: Biblical integration, Christian education, christian worldview, Focus Questions, focused essential questions

Cut the puppet’s strings!

18 February, 2014 by Eric Reenders Leave a Comment

Now, back to the question from two posts ago. How can we as teachers help our students develop their worldview in such a way that we aren’t creating brainwashed puppets? What’s the key to disciple them towards wisdom? How do we cut the puppet’s strings? Ok, so we have a defined goal… the salvation of … [Read more…]

Share this:

  • Tweet
  • Print
  • Email
  • More
  • Share on Tumblr
Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged: Christian education, christian worldview, worldview

Do we really have to do “Biblical integration”?

28 January, 2014 by Eric Reenders 2 Comments

One of my readers asked a great question that cuts right to the heart.  “Is “biblical integration” really something we MUST do?”  I want to discuss this with you in far more depth than my initial response to her. I think it’s going to take more than one post though so I’ll do this as … [Read more…]

Share this:

  • Tweet
  • Print
  • Email
  • More
  • Share on Tumblr
Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged: Biblical integration, Christian, teaching

Chapter Three

15 January, 2014 by Eric Reenders Leave a Comment

Three “This story very very old, more than three thousand years,” LiuPing began. “There was a great inventor, very famous. He invented many great and useful things, things that helped all people. All the people loved him and he grew very wealthy and wise. His name was FuXia but, no one called him by his … [Read more…]

Share this:

  • Tweet
  • Print
  • Email
  • More
  • Share on Tumblr
Posted in: Uncategorized

Chapter Two

2 January, 2014 by Eric Reenders Leave a Comment

Two John wasn’t sure what he had expected to find when they reached the cafe at the top of the stairs but the reality of it left him dumbfounded. What he noticed first as he came through the door was the incredible warmth of the place. It wasn’t just the temperature which was nearly perfect. … [Read more…]

Share this:

  • Tweet
  • Print
  • Email
  • More
  • Share on Tumblr
Posted in: Uncategorized
« Previous 1 2 3 Next »

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Categories

  • Essential Focused Questions
  • Uncategorized
  • Worldview

Recent Posts

  • Workshops
  • What’s next part II
  • Why?
  • What is next?
  • Looking for grace in education? Read Create Your Dream Classroom by Linda Kardamis.

Recent Comments

  • Bob Hazen on Even more focused teaching with Focused Essential Questions
  • Eric Reenders on Looking for grace in education? Read Create Your Dream Classroom by Linda Kardamis.
  • Simon Bentley on Looking for grace in education? Read Create Your Dream Classroom by Linda Kardamis.
  • Eric Reenders on Why?
  • Eric Reenders on How can we focus our teaching?

Archives

  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • June 2014
  • April 2014
  • February 2014
  • January 2014
  • December 2013
  • November 2013

Growing in Faith

through focused worldview development
in any classroom

Copyright © [the-year] [site-link].