Welcome to the
March edition of
InSearch.
Inside you will find three Featured Articles.
The first article,
Assessment that Supports and Encourages Learning: a blessing for our
students by Elaine Brouwer, asks us to consider an approach
to assessment that has the potential to be a blessing for student
and teacher alike. The
second article,
What is Quality Christian Education? by
John Van Dyk,
encourages the reader to rethink definitions of quality or
excellence in Christian education.
The third article is contributed by Tim Krell, Junior High
Principal and director of
Praxis
Academy
at
Bellevue
Christian
School
in
Medina,
Washington.
Curiosity and Wonder Lost in School asks what schools and
teachers can do to create a culture where the power inherent in
students’ ideas is utilized in the learning process.
We invite you to respond to the articles by clicking the link
at the end of each article.
In addition to the
Featured Articles, you will find
Departments called Sightings,
Booktalk, and Resources. In
Sightings, you will find stories of innovative approaches to
education. The first
sighting is the story of
Praxis
Academy
at
Bellevue
Christian
School.
Booktalk will
feature books that fuel serious reflection about our task as
Christian educators. The
March Booktalk features
Wisdom
and Curriculum: Christian Schooling after Postmodernity by Doug
Blomberg Senior Member in Philosophy of Education at the Institute
for Christian Studies,
Toronto,
Ontario,
Canada.
In Resources, we
will highlight interesting resources that come our way.
Featured in this edition of
InSearch are two DVDs.
The first is Invisible Children: rough cut, which exposes the effects of a 20
year-long war on the children of
Northern Uganda. The
second is a Christian History Institute production called
Jesus: the New Way, an account of the life and message of Jesus
hosted by Dr. N.T. Wright, Bishop of Durham in the UK.
