In her book Grit, Angela Duckworth discusses the importance of what she calls “deliberate practice” (see pages 120 and following; Duckworth borrows the term from Anders Ericsson). She tells of Olympic athletes, accomplished musicians, and skilled artisans participating in deliberate practice, usually doing one basic thing better than they did it the day before. She…
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Some people bemoan changes in educational models and practices. The way they were taught was good enough for them; it ought to be good enough for today’s students. They tend to forget that the models used thirty years ago were different than the models used sixty years ago. Think about how learning has changed over…
Read MoreAs the Explore the Bible team looked ahead to Fall 2017, we began to discuss the arrangement and position of the content in our resources. We wondered if we could create a different type of learning experience by rearranging the content we already have. We didn’t want to rearrange just for the sake of rearranging.…
Read MoreRest is one of those things that is usually in short supply this time of year. Family, parties, last minute shopping, returning gifts, cooking…the list could go on. This time of year requires more hours than we have days to get it all done. And then after everyone leaves, the clean up and undecorating await.…
Read MorePeter reminded his readers that Jesus’ return would happen like a theft. Both Matthew and Luke record Jesus’ using the same image of a thief to describe His return (Matt. 24:43-44; Luke 12:39). Anyone who has been robbed can relate to this image. We would have done some things differently had we only known: placing…
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