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What is it?
What is it?
Telling the Christian story and our own stories a Christians to one another and reflecting on those stories to gain wisdom for living well.
"Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel, and not frightened in anything by your opponents."
Philippians 1:27-28 (ESV)
"For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control."
2 Timothy 1:7
"Testimony occurs in particular settings — a courtroom or a church — where a community expects to hear the truth spoken."
Thomas Hoyt, Jr.
Starting Questions
Starting Questions
Where can personal lifestyle stories (yours, the students, or others) get woven into my curriculum?
To what extent does my life as a teacher serve as a "text" for your students in the classroom? Should it?
Who could I get to come in or watch via Skype to make this learning very real and personal? (Ex. an engineer to talk about how her work is dependent upon mathematics; an ESL-speaker to talk about trying to navigate a culture using a second language; someone who has spent time in prison to talk about restorative justice, etc.)
Whose stories are not being told in my curriculum? How can my students tell their stories to one another or to the class?
Do students know why I teach what I teach? Have I ever told them how I fell in love with my subject material and how I see it connecting to my faith? As a parent, I am struck by who much my 'testimony' influences my own children. My boys love soccer largely because I told them that I love soccer. What could this look like in my classroom?
Additional Resources
Additional Resources
The following is a list of teacher-generated ideas of ways that this practice could be implemented in the classroom or school culture.
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