Can you see Dr. MacCullough’s guiding questions being valuable to you in creating biblically integrated units/lessons? How do you envision implementing them in your planning process?

Yes they are valuable. These are questions the students will be faced with and if we give a biblical worldview answer, the students will be better equipped.

They are very helpful to me. I plan on listing them at the bottom of my lesson plan template, specifically so I can remember to cover multiple aspects of biblical integration.

Oh yes I see them as being incredibly helpful, particularly the questions pertaining to reality, truth, and morality. Being a math teacher, we discuss absolutes all of the time (ex: 2 plus 2 always equals 4). It would be so easy to turn that into a discussion of how can we know the absolutes of life, not just math, or whether there are any at all. Math can also lead into a discussion of reality. Did we discover math or are we creating math to fit reality? Why/How is our world so orderly that it fits absolute mold of mathematics? These would be great questions to introduce any middle or high school math class with!

They are very much worldview points. I design my curriculum around these already.

Yes, definitely as it will provide guidance to students and enabled them to compare and contrast between what the world believes in vs what the Bible said, although it can be quite difficult to do so. It’s definitely something that needs to be intentionally inserted into the lesson plan and carefully planned on.

These are current issues people are struggling with. We need to equipt the students how to find these answers for themselves.

James Sire’s worldview questions will be a great help and value in creating lessons. Dr. MacCullough has drawn on Mr. Sire’s information very heavily and rightfully so because these are the foundational questions to every worldview. I think it will be very helpful for educators to make sure they are using these.

I will have these questions on a 3×5 card with me when I am planning and consistently go back to them. I want to always be thinking about how my lessons will develop a Christian worldview in my students.

In teaching science I like to invite the concept that humans are aware of about 5% of the natural universe. Science is the exploration of God’s creation. Science is man’s interpretation of God’s creation. Our middle school biblical integration standards call for us to explore various world views on creation, the three Christian ones (Theistic Evolution, Old Earth, and Young Earth) and the most popular secular one (Big Bang + Evolution). I appreciate that students get to wrestle with these ideas as they embrace their faith.

They are great and helpful questions which I can share with other faculty members. I flexible and I am going to start using these questions in my planning.

Yes! The questions provide a framework and guideline for me in my lessons.

Yes. These questions can be very valuable. Our curriculum is already planned but it would be interesting to go through the lessons and answer these questions to see if the lessons are lacking anything.

These 7-8 questions are philosophical in nature. As a team teacher in the Bible department teaching philosophy of religion, I will actually be looking at the questions regularly and integrating them into content and context daily. Our curriculum is already developed. While following the standards, scope, and sequence our department heads have developed, team teachers will routinely integrate these philosophical questions.

I think they are very valuable. I plan on taking my current lessons and running through the questions and adding to my lessons.

Dr. MacCullough’s questions takes the lesson planning process beyond just the state standards to integrate a Biblical worldview lesson. These questions will help guide the lessons and integrate God’s word throughout the lesson and base the topic taught on truth, the firm foundation.

I think these questions are very valuable. It is important for every person to respond to these questions and more important to teachers who are leading children to answer these questions. I have implemented these questions by allowing students to ask big questions. I have a bulletin board where students can ask questions and I will answer a few of them on Fridays.

I do see value in Dr. MacCullough’s guiding questions in creating a biblically integrated unit and lesson. I envision memorizing the questions so that they are well engrained in what I am doing as I develop the units. I also plan on rewriting them so that they are more age appropriate for my students, so that when I ask specific questions to my students they can relate back to these guiding questions.

Some of the guiding questions are helpful. Others, I would need them to be explained more in depth and with examples.

I think Dr. MacCullough’s questions are thought provoking. It does seem as if the answers to these questions don’t really change a whole lot. Therefore trying to implement these guiding questions into each lesson and see how they are answered within the context of the units and lessons will be an exercise needing much practice. Hearing this lecture does provide a better understanding of the how we begin broadly with scope and sequence and then focus on our unit development before moving on to lesson planning. I think it would have been very helpful to see an example of how someone does this in an elementary classroom for a particular lesson. I am not quite sure how I see myself implementing this process yet, but I am encouraged to be more intentional in my planning process.

These questions are very thought provoking. They will take time to apply to units in our curriculum. I see that one must think about the basic ideas of man and the Bible to begin unit planning. I liked the idea that one must do all the work at the unit end first before looking at specific lesson plans.

It will be tricky to try to integrate these into my classes but it will be a fun exercise and get me to think in different ways about my lessons and how to put them together.

I wish I could see an example of someone working through these questions to help them plan a unit. Maybe I am not fully understanding how to use the questions but it seems to me, once I answer them, the questions won’t really change. I think I am missing something and hope that I get more clarity as I try it on my own.

I personally will struggle with implementing these questions as I plan my lessons. However, as I re-plan my units this coming year, I will look at them through the lens of these guiding questions and see how I can improve them.

When first looking at Dr. MacCullough’s questions, I thought to myself what does prime reality or the nature of external reality have to do with my art lessons. These questions seem so deep, but I believe with the help of the Holy Spirit working in and through me, I can learn to teach in a Biblically appropriate manner with these questions in mind.

I think these questions are good questions to consider to help get ideas flowing of what you can integrate biblically into a lesson, but I would consider using all of these questions in each lesson too much. These questions are very deep and sometimes the nature of a lesson calls for something more simple and straightforward so I probably wouldn’t use these to plan every lesson I teach, but they would be helpful for brainstorming while lesson planning.

I can see myself using her guiding questions when I plan my lessons/units. I will look about my materials in a more discerning light.

I do like that her questions give you a good place to start. I will look at each unit and try to get a feel for where integration would fit. I would like to plan a system so it is easier to implement into each lesson. I think while preparing each lesson I will find places to integrate. And classroom discussion always seems to offer opportunities.