Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach : Learning Styles and The 4 Steps
4 STEPS TO BIBLE STUDY - STEPS 3 and 4
We recommend the same 4 Steps for Bible study that we use for the Unit Studies.

Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach : Learning Styles and The 4 Steps
4 STEPS TO BIBLE STUDY Steps 1 and 2
We recommend the same 4 Steps for Bible study that we use for the Unit Studies.

Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach : Educational Philosophy
A Hebrew Education Model
To build a thoroughly Christian educational system, we must begin with a thoroughly biblical definition of education. What does the Bible tell us about education?

Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach : Educational Philosophy
Academic Requirements
Our first desire is to inspire students to become hearers and doers of God's Word, and to encourage students to search the Scriptures and apply them to everyday situations. Our second goal is to teach them a love of learning that will last a lifetime.

Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach : Educational Philosophy
Ancient Greek vs. Biblical Education
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ (Colossians 2:8).

Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach : Writing to Learn
Benefits of Writing to Learn
Eight benefits of writing to learn for students and teachers.

Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach : Charlotte Mason
Charlotte Mason Philosophy
The Heart of Wisdom teaching approach creates lesson plans using Charlotte Mason's methods, and teaching to the four learning styles (the Four-Step Lessons). It's a new, creative way to organize Charlotte Mason's unique methods.

Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach : Writing to Learn
Creating a Timeline Book
In her writings, Charlotte Mason recommended preparing a handmade Timeline Book (originally called a Museum Sketch Book; sometimes called a Book of the Centuries).

Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach
Delight-Directed Study
Would you read this page if it were titled "Basic Plumbing Concepts?" You might if you had a leak in your kitchen sink or a basement full of water! In the same way, students need to have a relevant interest in the topic they are learning.

Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach : Educational Philosophy
Developing a Christian Mind
Because a Christian mind is more than a mechanical skill, such as driving a car or operating a computer, there is no simple set of steps which can be offered. There are steps to be followed, of course, like reading the Bible, praying, meditating the Word, etc. But the Christian mind is primarily the result of a deepening relationship to God in Christ by the Holy Spirit.


Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach : Educational Philosophy
Education According to the Bible
What does the Bible say about eduction? Who, what, when and oow answers are found here.

Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach : Writing to Learn
Excerpt from the book Writing to Learn
"Writing to Learn," by best-seller author William Zinsser, is an essential book for everyone who uses writing as a means of learning. Here is the first chapter from this book. Chapter 1: Hermes and the Periodic Table

Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach : Educational Philosophy
Goals of Education
Schools evaluate learning by testing and measuring knowledge. Paul would say that character is a better indicator of a well-taught Christian.


Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach : Educational Philosophy
God's Wisdom vs. Man's Wisdom
There is very little question of the meaning and importance of intelligence, but until we have defined education and its purpose and goals in biblical terms, we will not be able to aim for a higher education standard. We must look at wisdom from a biblical perspective.

Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach : Bible First
Heart of Wisdom Approach to Bible Study
List of articles and links to study tools for the HOW Bible study approach.

Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach
Heart of Wisdom Teaching Approach Overview
The Heart of Wisdom teaching approach is a combination of several teaching methods organized around a two-sided curriculum base: God's Word and God's World. This method is specifically designed for multilevel teaching. This approach includes a four-year suggested course of study designed to be repeated every four years.

Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach : Education According to the Bible
How? Diligently
There is no shortcut method to a sound education. If spiritual training is to be a priority in your children’s education, you will be required to make a major commitment of your time and your resources.

Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach : Education According to the Bible
How? Object Lessons
God teaches through object lessons. God commanded His children to put up stones as a reminder in Joshua 4. The stones were specifically put up in order to prompt children's questions.

Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach : Education According to the Bible
How? Object Lessons: Bible Holidays
Each of the biblical holidays listed in Leviticus 23 is an object lesson to remind us of God's mercy and faithfulness. The biblical holidays are very exciting studies revealing Christ.

Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach : Learning Styles and The 4 Steps
Inductive Bible Study
The inductive Bible-study method works well as you are reading through the Bible.

Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach : Charlotte Mason
Learning How to Learn Together
Assigning a number of pages to read in a textbook is not teaching. Dr. Bruce Wilkinson explains, in The Seven Laws of the Learner, "Talking in front of a class is not teaching. True biblical teaching doesn't take place unless students have learned. If they haven't learned, we haven't taught. "

Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach : Learning Styles and The 4 Steps
Learning Styles
Studies show that seventy percent of children do NOT learn well the way the schools teach—lecture/textbook/test—most students need more. The four-step lesson cycle is a way to teach to all four learning styles.

Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach
Methods Used in the Heart of Wisdom Teaching Approach
Educational approaches listed by linked categories

Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach : Educational Philosophy
MindMapping
Mindmapping is a nonlinear activity that generates ideas, images and feelings around a stimulus word. As students cluster, their thoughts tumble out, enlarging their word bank for writing and often enabling them to see patterns in their ideas.

Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach : Bible First
One Needful Thing
Homeschoolers sometimes get so wrapped up in academics they forget the one needful thing. Remember the story of Mary and Martha.

Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach : Writing to Learn
Portfolio and/or Notebooking
A portfolio notebook is simply a three-ring notebook that is used to store the student’s work for the unit, including writing assignments, artwork, small collections, letters, photos, brochures, maps, etc.

Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach : Educational Philosophy
Returning to Traditional Education - What Tradition?
Today, there is a surge of interest in the secular world to return to Greek classical education. "We need to return to the traditional literary culture, the classical standards of the past." experts demand. Insistence on a "back to basics" of "reading, writing and arithmetic," has again become popular. It is a desire to turn back to the fork where we took the wrong road. But is it God's way? Why go back to pagan Greeks ways? Why not return to biblical methods?

Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach
Scheduling by Faith
We have asked "What would Jesus do?" And, "How would Jesus teach?" Now let us ask "How would Jesus schedule?" Jesus had obvious long-term goals but He practiced daily as a responder. He prayed daily and allowed the needs of the people around Him to set His agenda. He saw people's needs as opportunities to minister. We need to ask God to help us learn to schedule by faith.

Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach : Learning Styles and The 4 Steps
Scrapbook Links
You can get very creative with your Bible Portfolios. Some students thrive on creativity. For them we suggest scrapbook supplies (memory albums, stickers, die cuts, paper, cardstock, scissors, pens, punches, templates, rulers, idea books, etc.). Students can decorate papers with illustrations, stickers, frames, etc.



Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach : Writing to Learn
Scrapbooking to Learn
Scrapbooking to Learn is about the process of making scrapbook supplies available to your students as they create their notebook pages or folders.

Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach : Writing to Learn
Scrapbooking to Learn: Paper Dolls
Paper dolls are fun and great for portfolios, lapbooks, and timeline books. Your children can color and cut out paper dolls as you read Bible stories.

Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach : Educational Philosophy
Study: The Highest Form of Worship
The decision to study God's Word in order to do His Word is a meaningful act of submission and reverence - in short, it is worship.

Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach : Educational Philosophy
Taking the Challenge
We must do more than rail against guideless education. We must identify a distinctively Christian curriculum - one that takes its identity, its motion from the reality of our redeemed condition - one that begins with the authority of the risen Christ speaking through His Word.

Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach : Writing to Learn
Teaching with Writing Practices
Writing-to-learn exercises and assignments can be done in class or as homework. They can require very little time or involve regular, ongoing work by students.

Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach : Learning Styles and The 4 Steps
The Four-Step Lessons
These four steps make up a cycle of instruction based on the four learning styles. Each of the four steps teaches to one of these four learning styles.

Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach : Education According to the Bible
The Hebrew Education Model
What would Jesus do? is a popular question today. We should also ask questions like, How did Jesus teach? What kind of education did Jesus receive? What were Abraham and Sarah’s educational goals for their children? Would Jesus have been at the head of His class if He had attended the Academy of Plato? How was Paul taught?

Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach : Bible First
The Primary Purpose of Education
The primary purpose of education should be to train the whole person for lifelong, obedient service, just as it was in Bible times...

Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach : Educational Philosophy
Two-Sided Curriculum Base
There are, from man's point of view, two distinct areas or realms of knowledge—God's Word and God's world. Since our criteria for education must flow from Scripture as the highest and most authoritative source of knowledge, the two realms are approached in different ways.

Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach
Unit Study Approach
Unit studies, sometimes called thematic units or integrated studies, are very popular with homeschoolers. Unit studies usually use a hands-on approach for effective learning. The child learns by actually experiencing or discovering through different methods and activities, rather than just reading from a textbook. Studies show that children using unit-study methods retain 45% more than those using a traditional approach.

Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach : Bible First
Views of Knowledge
It is not enough simply to borrow a curriculum of the western tradition and sprinkle it with Christian words. God in this world has appointed wisdom to the structure, method and goal of our learning.

Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach : Educational Philosophy
What is Education?
In our society, teaching is imparting knowledge and processing information; learning is acquiring knowledge and using information. It’s hard for us to realize that teaching did not have the same meaning for Paul or Timothy or the early readers of their letters.

Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach : Educational Philosophy
What the Bible Says About Teaching
To teach the whole person, instruction must go beyond processing information. Even true information. As we look at 1 Timothy we realize that biblical teaching does involve verbal instruction. But it also involves urging, pointing out, commanding, setting an example, giving instructions. Christian teaching calls for a personal involvement that touches every aspect of the learner’s life.

Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach : Education According to the Bible
What? The Commands of God
Protestant Christians tend to have a negative attitude about the word Law, feeling that it refers to oppressive and arbitrary regulations. But the word that we translate as Law, Torah, has a very different emphasis and connotation in Hebrew.

Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach : Education According to the Bible
When? All Throughout the Day
The moral and biblical education of children was accomplished best, not in a formal teaching period each day, but when the parents, out of concern for their own lives as well as their children’s, made God and His Word the natural topic of a conversation which might occur anywhere and anytime during the day.

Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach : Education According to the Bible
Who? Parents Are to Teach Their Children
Another term used for the word sanctuary in the Bible was tabernacle. In Exodus 25:8, God said to Moses: “And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.” The Hebrew word ma`at (meh-at’) means “little” (see Ezekiel 11:16). 5 The home was referred to as the miqdash me’at, or, a little sanctuary.

Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach : Educational Philosophy
Worldviews
There are two main worldviews—a secular worldview and a Christian worldview. American public schools teach from a secular, humanistic worldview. Christians must evaluate the subjects in a curriculum in a radically different way from that of a secular humanist.

Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach : Writing to Learn
Writing to Learn
One of the best ways for a student to understand a topic is to write about it. Students must comprehend the material, restructure the new information, and then share their new understanding...

Heart of Wisdom : Teaching Approach : Writing to Learn
Writing to Learn Links
Teaching guides on designing and responding to assignments, teaching specific writing skills, teaching with technology, and more