The Winter of my Discontent
Given the global refugee crisis, here at Master Teaching we’re reassessing our attitudes and actions toward the ignored and forgotten. We’ve asked ourselves five essential questions which we’ll answer over the next six weeks by revisiting some readers’ favorites. This post by Kenton Kersting helps answer our first question: What’s life like for the ignored and forgotten?
What’s So Essential about Essential Questions?
Dale De Weerd shows us how to bridge benchmarks to classroom instruction by using essential questions, a second trend in education. Read, respond, and try it out!
Teach Like a Bird
“Birds do not reap or sow, yet God feeds them.” Bradley Baurain deepens our understanding of the Sermon on the Mount by showing how to “teach like a bird.”
Being Salt & Light
Tasha Bleistein continues our study of the Sermon on the Mount. She looks at salt and light through a lens of humility.
3 Lessons from our Master Teacher
Amy Young digs into the Beatitudes and how they apply to teachers. Under the microscope is our attitudes toward teaching and students.
On the Mountainside
Over the next few weeks here on Master Teaching, you’ll read answers to the question: What does the Sermon on the Mount teach you about being a teacher who follows … Continue reading
3 Tips for New Teachers
Mark Wickersham closes out this series with advice for new teachers. His three tips, both practical and philosophical, bring us back around to rest.
Quick to Listen
This week Julie Prentice answers the question: What do you wish you had known when you first started teaching? Her advice to new teachers blesses us with wisdom, and interestingly, points us back yet again to rest.
The Teaching Practice of Rest
We’ve asked teachers what they wish they’d known when they first started teaching. We were surprised, and then challenged, when Bridget Watson’s answer tied back into our previous series on rest. She calls it the “greatest act of trust.”
The Gift of Silence
Stillness and rest are not practices only for teachers. Aliel Cunningham shows how bringing silence into the classroom refreshes both teacher and students.
Eyes on the Master
What can a teacher do to rest and be refreshed for the classroom? Jill Schafhauser explains how it all comes down to staying focused on the right things at the right times.
Be Still
What you’ll find here is an entry in our teacher lectionary. As we talk about rest over the next few weeks, you can use the passages, prayers, and songs for times of stillness before the throne.
