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How do you imbed the fruit of the Spirit into your classroom? Or, if you haven’t previously considered this, how might you go about it now?
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I do not think that I have deliberately considered this. I would embed the fruit of the spirit in my classroom by allowing correction to be done in a way that was inline with the fruits. This is challenging.
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I imbed them into my classroom by modelling them for my students. I can’t expect them to value and exhibit the fruits of the Spirit if I don’t.
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Students/children follow by example and the phrase that comes to me is: ‘Your actions speak louder than your words.’ Adults are constantly modeling how we navigate through life’s circumstances.
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Our classroom rules will be modeled around the fruits of the spirit. My plan is (during the first week of school) to discuss how we should act in a classroom… I want the students to tell me how we should act and how we treat one another. As they point out various characteristics, I will link them to one of the fruits of the spirit, until we have covered all of the “fruits”. I plan to have fruits cut out, labeled with the traits of the fruits of the Spirit. Once they’ve chosen and colored a fruit, I want to display it on a tree that I’ll have ready on the wall. Throughout the school year, I’ll refer to our tree when needed. During a lesson, I can just as easily refer to one of the “fruits” when we are studying characters in a reading assignment.
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With my high school students I would imbed the fruit of the Spirit in my classroom when we had discussion arounds ethics as it related to science. For my 3rd grade students I plan on using discussions after reading books with them and focus on character development within the text.
