Beyond What Our Eyes Can See
At the time of writing this editorial, the COVID-19 pandemic has interrupted learning for more than 1.6 billion students in 190 countries on most continents.
Nurturing Faith Through Online Learning
Part 1: Planning Faith Integration
How can we shape the online learning environment to nurture the faith of students? How can we provide online experiences that clearly reveal a Seventh-day Adventist identity and mission alignment?
Helping Children With Special Needs During the COVID-19 Pandemic
For all students, and specifically students with special learning needs, classroom instruction begins from the opening bell to the closing bell, and it is a joint effort by administrators, teachers, maintenance and office staff, librarians, cafeteria staff, and volunteers to keep all the students on task and engaged throughout each day and week of the school year.
Using Formative and Summative Assessments in K-8 Classrooms
Assessment is more than testing students and reporting grades! The purpose of assessment is to provide evidence of student learning. Teachers and schools share accountability for instructional outcomes and are responsible for making sure these are clearly outlined and measured.
Adventist Choices: The Relationship Between Adventist Culture and Adventist Education
Part 1
This two-part series presents findings from a research study on how the concept of Adventist culture impacts enrollment in Adventist schools.
Sharing Adventism in the Classroom:
Lessons From Teaching Religion at Loma Linda University
How are we to share the Adventist story in the classroom? And can we make it relevant to a new generation of youth in the 21st century? Theodore N. Levterov offers three perspectives that he has found to be helpful in teaching the Adventist heritage of health at Loma Linda University, and concludes by offering general observations on why these perspectives can be useful for introducing Adventism as a path to spirituality and a meaningful relationship with God.
Overcoming Five Challenges of Teaching in a Hybrid Classroom
Were you, like many of us, teaching your way through a good school year until the middle of March 2020? Overnight, our students were quarantined at home, and we had “virtual” students. Teachers in public and private schools throughout the U.S., and in many other parts of the world, had to adjust quickly to a Zoom platform and other online teaching tools and strategies.
