PHILOSOPHY OF
TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
OF LEARNING
Teaching is the art and science of empowering students with not Learning is a skill honed by experience, encouraged by an atmosphere
only knowledge but a life-long love of learning. Our teachers seek to unthreatened by failure, and infused with healthy risk-taking. Learning
cultivate growth mindsets and offer experiences that inspire students happens most fluidly when students meet novel challenges with
to acquire the wisdom, skill, attitude, and faith needed to effectively curiosity and self-direction, trusting that errors are an integral part
pursue and embrace opportunities that bring glory to God. of the learning process. Whether through purposefully orchestrated
Teaching empowers students
to learn at high levels when
instructors:
• View the learning process as
inherently valuable and ultimately
transferable in multiple contexts.
• Offer varied circumstances and
complexities to refine decision-
making in an environment where
success and failure are viewed as
equal opportunities to learn.
• Establish a teacher-student relationship
that is marked by high expectations,
mutual respect, and trust.
• Utilize technology for learning and
the production of work, not simply for
consumption and entertainment.
• Challenge the student to use
knowledge and skill acquisition to
benefit others.
• Value diverse perspectives,
backgrounds, and frameworks of
thought as great assets to learning.
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• Persistently collaborate with
colleagues on best practices and
student learning, seeking excellence
as the standard.
• Strategically utilize a consistent and
viable curriculum to help students
meet learning goals.
experiences or by the natural occurrences of the day, learning happens
constantly and is a skill for life. The ability to learn is a gift of the Creator
and should be treated with respect and stewarded.
Learning occurs when students:
• Believe all mistakes are vehicles for
learning.
• Constantly and frequently adjust their
teaching in response to how students
are progressing toward learning goals. • Are appropriately challenged by
high standards of learning that are
meaningful and applicable.
• Require students to grapple with
opposing viewpoints, novel ideas, and
deeper thinking. • Have opportunity to apply their learning
to novel situations that simulate problems
they may be asked to solve in their
everyday lives.
• Center experiences on problems
and situations that develop critical
analysis and move students towards
action and resolution.
• Give students clarity and
enlightenment to the biblical truths
found in the subject matter to
encourage the pursuit of wisdom
over knowledge.
• Interact in widening circles of
experience that extend beyond self,
peers, socioeconomic group, ethnic
group, and religious familiarity.
• Recognize the relevance of what they
are learning and its potential to help
them contribute to their communities
and the world.
• Choose opportunities to naturally and
fluidly incorporate character traits
of curiosity, gratitude, self-control,
empathy, social intelligence, passion,
perseverance, and resilience into their
daily lives.
• Have authentic relationships with each
other and with their teachers.
• Read regularly and for pleasure,
pursuing personal interests and
exploring new ideas.
• Seek God’s truth and recognize the
instruction of the Holy Spirit as
an integral factor in all knowledge
acquisition and wisdom.