TEACHERS GIVE-AND-TAKE

May 12, 2009 Uncategorized No Comments

Editor’s note: Meg Current joined our conference this year as a teacher of grades 2-3 at Miami Springs Adventist School. I was delighted to discover her actively teaching students to learn their memory verses, rather than merely assigning the memory work as something to be done at home. Here’s how she did it:

-Write the memory verse on a white board or chart paper.
-Use metacognitive skills to model for the student show you might associate pictures with some of the words. For example, you might say: “I am the light of the world…hmmm…when I think of light, I think of the flashlight that I use when I go camping. So I am going to draw my flashlight right above the word.”
-Continue talking out load and drawing pictures above key words. Then begin to involve the children in the free association.
-Finally, tell the children that it will help them to learn the memory verse if they make their own associations.
-Turn on some enjoyable Christian music and give the students time to create their own learning tool by drawing pictures above key words in the memory verse.

Taken from the January-March 2009 edition of the Florida Conference of Seventh-day Adventists News Letter

Eastern’s International Project

August 25, 2008 Uncategorized No Comments

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ENRC
Eastern’s International Project
March 2008
By
Kathy Bollinger

And what might you say does ENRC have in common with South American children in Talcahuano, Chile? If your answer is LITERACY—you are correct. During Spring Break in March, Kathy Bollinger and many youth went on a mission trip to central Chile to build a church. While they were there, the need for books kept recurring. The government builds the schools, but the people have to buy the books and because of the poverty in that area, the library contained only twelve books. The high school literature teacher had only a single copy of Hamlet which the students were sharing. There were just a very few dictionaries and resource books. With ENRC funds, many books were added to the library and the students and faculty alike were excited. Books were purchased and given to the children of the school. The librarian stated that the books given were more than double of the total current library holdings. They thanked ENRC immensely, but the gratitude and smiles on the children’s faces told the real story of thanks!!

ENRC’s funds—-$200.00.
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