Christian School Insights
Christian School Administration and Teacher Resource Kit
New to the 5th Edition are the following school improvement topics
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Establishing an Annual School Theme – Contained are seven different school themes along with PowerPoint presentations for each theme.
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Improving Customer Service – There are six articles in this section along with a PowerPoint presentation that can be modified to show to your staff as part of a professional development program. There is also a document on Telephone Etiquette.
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Improving the Classroom Environment – The authors include copies of a three-part classroom environment assessment along with techniques on how to collect and analyze the data and what to do with the results, such as providing constructive feedback to teachers on how to improve their classroom environment.
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Offer a Reconciliation Program – Not all students are perfect; some have to be suspended from attending or asked to withdraw from school. This section shows administrators how to establish and implement a reconciliation program.
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Set up an International Student Program - There are many aspects to setting up and maintaining a quality international student program. This segment walks you through the step-by-step process.
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Start a Fast-Track Program – This type of program is designed to challenge those who need to be taken beyond the standard school curriculum. It can also be considered much like a gifted and talented program. Specific examples are given on the type of curriculum to include.
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Add Character Training – This segment offers a list of character traits and values should be taught in every school. A month-by-month calendar is provided. Teachers can include these traits in their lesson plans, post them on their school web pages, and grade level and division newsletters.
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Offer a Playground Curriculum – Every minute in school is an opportunity for teaching and training. Regardless of the amount of playground equipment a school has, every school can implement a playground curriculum. View this article to see how teachers can implement this curriculum on a daily basis.
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Other School Improvement – This segment offers 10 techniques for improving your school. How to close the backdoor, Grade Level Promotion and Retention, Parent Ministry and Recruiting Strategies are just a few of the topics. Includes information to help a school develop a program that meets the needs of students with special needs without the cost of professional special education teachers.
Professional Development
New to the 5th Edition are the following Professional Development Topics
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Being an Effective Task Master –Three-part PowerPoint presentation
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Improving Academic Success – A collection of 26 topics, along with a PowerPoint presentation on how to Double Your Child’s Grades.
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Making a Difference – A PowerPoint presentation on building effective relationships with students that lead to changes in their lives.
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Tips and Techniques – This includes 10 topics, from Student Discipline to testing done right. It also includes a PowerPoint on The Importance of Objectives.
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How to Establish a Teacher of the Year Program – Includes student, parent, and staff surveys and data-collection instruments.
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How to Create a Master Teacher Program – This section contains the documents needed to establish a Master Teacher Program.
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A Few Good Men – This document encourages men to be godly examples.
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Publications – This section includes 12 articles, such as Back to School Shopping, Christian Education an Investment, Private School Tuition, Tomorrow Needs Your Children, and others.
Special Features
There are two segments in this section. The first section contains 20 PowerPoint presentations based on the book Spirit-Directed Education. Topics are shown below.
The second segment addresses the topic of Spirit-Directed Discipline based on the book by the same title and contains four PowerPoint presentations, and Introduction, Walking in Your Authority, Right-Speaking and Modeling on the part of teachers.
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School Improvement
20 New Powerpoint presentations
SESSION 1 - Spirit-directed Education: A New Approach
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The spirit is the most important part of every student. It is that part that will go into eternity.
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Learn five key concepts for educating a child's spirit.
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When the spirit is fully trained, it will lead the mind, will, emotions, and body into God's blessing.
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Change follows the will's submission; it requires new ways of thinking and dealing with a rebellious body.
SESSION 2 - Spirit-directed Education and the Classroom
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Seven ingredients a teacher needs to establish a Spirit-directed classroom.
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Six actions a Christian educator needs in the classroom.
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Four actions needed to release the anointing and how to avoid the nine hindrances to the anointing.
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Speak words that bring success, believe the Word of God you speak, and exercise your authority.
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The seven actions that take place when you release the Holy Spirit to do His work in the classroom.
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Five things the Holy Spirit does when you involve Him in your lesson planning.
SESSION 3 - Spirit-directed Education and the Teacher
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Six expectations of a Spirit-directed teacher and what it means to have the “mind of Christ” and Godly wisdom.
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Four reasons to obey the Holy Spirit's voice, go beyond sense knowledge, and increase your sensitivity to hearing the Holy Spirit.
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Learn the advantages of being filled with the Holy Spirit and how you can receive this gift in three easy steps.
SESSION 4 - Spirit-directed Education and the Student
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Three factors related to Spirit-directed education and the student. The student's need to experience salvation, the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit, and the importance of renewing the mind.
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Learn how to feed your students' new nature and train them to hate evil and tell the truth.
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Learn how to establish boundaries and set expectations, develop sensitivity to the Holy Spirit, and train students to respond properly to conviction and surrender their will.
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Help your students recognize the source of their thoughts, what teachers can do to promote the renewing of the student's mind, and how to point out errors in thinking.
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Learn to identify 10 common thinking mistakes known as cognitive distortions.
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Learn about the teacher's role in setting an example in right speech, speaking the Word of God over your students, and encouraging students to speak right things over themselves and others.
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Learn how to speak words to students that enhance a positive self-image and foster a positive spirit-image based on the Word of God.
Do you know of a classroom where the teacher has a hard time getting students' attention? Getting and keeping students' attention is key to teaching any task effectively and efficiently. If it takes 5 minutes per subject to get students' attention before they begin teaching, this teacher would waste two weeks of instructional time just getting students' attention by the end of the school year.
How to Become an Effective and Efficient Taskmaster is a three-part PowerPoint presentation that shows teachers how to become effective taskmasters, not ones who impose a harsh workload on students. Instead, it shows how to become an educator who has become an expert in the techniques needed to train students to complete various tasks. The presentations range from 11 to 16 minutes. Each presentation includes handouts and a PDF file to follow along.
How to Become an Efficient and Effective Taskmaster
One of the most often asked questions of parents during parent conferences is, "How can I help my child do better in school? This is especially true when a child is failing in a particular subject. We know that failing grades affect students and their families for life. Like the parent who came to the school nurse and said, "I'm suffering from a low‑grade infection. Every time I see my son's report card, I get sick. “
Parents are affected when a son or daughter does not score high enough on the college entrance tests and is not accepted into college; or, if accepted, when low scores prevent the student from receiving significant financial aid, leaving parents to pay. Since content builds on content, good grades start in the first year of school and continue throughout a child’s educational life.
This PowerPoint shows teachers and parents the six effects of failing grades and what they can do to support change.
How to Double a Child's Grades
Helpful Grade/Study and Homework Resources
Although studying is essential to school success, it often leads to conflicts at home as parents try to get Johnny and Susie to do their homework, practice spelling words, and prepare for quizzes and tests. For many families, doing homework is a real hassle. Yet, when properly structured, quality study time instills self-discipline and strong time-management skills and reduces the gap between perceived study time and actual study time. In our survey of over 500 students and their parents about the time spent doing homework, we found a 2-to-1 ratio. That is, when the parent reported that Johnny spent 20 minutes studying and doing homework, Johnny reported 10 minutes. In other words, 50% of the time was spent on other behaviors rather than actual study; for example, thinking about non-homework-related things, listening to the radio, watching TV, talking on the phone, manipulating study materials, etc.
Making a Difference
All of us interact with students in our classrooms, hallways, cafeteria, parking lot, sports fields and courts, and even off campus. The question is, "Are our encounters with students really making a difference in their lives?“
"When it comes to influencing young people, recent research proves what most educators already knew; it's all about relationships. As it turns out, teachers' relational skills are overwhelmingly related to student success." (Cultivate)
Making a difference starts with building relationships. This PowerPoint draws on the Cultivate Project and summarizes research on the power of relationships. It offers three strategies you can use as you build relationships with students. They are simple and don't require much extra effort. This is an ideal presentation for a professional development activity.
Spirit-Directed Discipline
Many behaviors educators label as disciplinary problems, such as rebellion, disrespect, deception, contention, meanness, rudeness, and hatred, are the result of the Devil’s attempt to rob, kill, and destroy, as we read in John 10:10. “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life and have it to the full.” (NIV)
Satan’s goal is more than to disrupt a peaceful classroom; he plans to discredit parents, to discourage teachers, to enslave students, parents, and staff in fear, oppression, lust, depression, and bondage; his goal is to destroy their souls.
Furthermore, if the devil can create confusion and disharmony in the classroom and entice rebellion, disobedience, and strife in the lives of young people, teachers will be unable to accomplish God’s perfect plan for the classroom, and students will fall short of God’s best for their lives.
This PowerPoint features content from Chapter 5 in Spirit-Directed Discipline, which presents the power ingredients of discipline, your Spiritual Authority, Weapons, and the Anointing.
