Integrating Faith and Teaching

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Integrating Faith and Teaching

If everyone on this earth held the belief that all humans have the capability of being and becoming good people, this world would be a much different place. I hold the belief that human beings are good, and I feel that is essential that all people do their best to try to find the good aspects and qualities in others. I think that it is important to concentrate on the positive and good aspects of people, even though some do make this very difficult to even attempt. All people have something to offer the world, even if they do not know it. I think that as a teacher it is my job and my duty to find these good points in my students. In I Corinthians 7:7, it states that “…each has a particular gift from God, one having one kind and another a different kind.” Later in I Corinthians 12 it states that God has given us these gifts to use. Once I have established the qualities that my learners possess, I can continue to build on their foundations. I can also help to guide them in the path of good behavior and a good moral life. If I spot weaknesses, I can also help to work on those points by building them up with the student. As I stated earlier, I believe that every person, no matter his or her “position” or lack thereof in life, deserves to know that they have something to offer to others on this earth. Each child is worthy as J. Fennema suggests, and it is my duty, along with the parents, to help the child realize and understand this. I feel that it is a teacher’s position to help draw his or her students’ talents and gifts out so that they can use and develop them to hopefully put towards making the community in which they are involved, and those communities to which they wil...

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...the type of life and person I represent. I believe that the greatest example is by action.

I honestly do struggle with my some aspects of my faith. I may end up teaching at a Christian school that holds different beliefs other than what I have been brought up to believe; however, all Christians hold the central belief that the Lord sent His only Son Jesus Christ to die and save us from our sins. I can always share this and the central belief of how it is to live a Christian and moral life. No matter what position I find myself in, or where I may be teaching, I can try to always live my life as an example of what it means to be a Christian.

Works Cited

Dykstra, C. (1981). A Christian education alternative to Kohlberg. New York: Paulist Press.

Fennama, J. (1977). Nurturing children in the Lord. Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian & Reformed.

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