Lyle Musser redefines teaching as an architectural process, moving beyond simply delivering facts to guiding students through knowledge, understanding, and wisdom. Using models like Bloom’s Taxonomy and Kevin Washburn’s learning...

Stewardship applies to everyone who has God-given resources at their disposal. Students of all ages must learn to be responsible stewards of the time, talent, and treasure entrusted to them by God. This presentation will define...

Administrators need some basic tools to be effective in their role. This presentation will help administrators identify the tools they need and provide samples for them to refine for their own toolbox. It discusses job...

This document contains a sample outline for conducting an interview with a potential teacher.

Shalom Mennonite School staff created literacy objectives for students in grades seven and eight, with stated purpose "to produce a thinking student, with skills to analyze and ciritque information that is before them, thus...

A simple table of a school's field trip locations by grade. Many of these locations are in southeastern Pennsylvania.

Shalom Mennonite School staff created literacy goals for their students in kindergarten and grade 1. Their focus is on summarizing, retelling, and writing phonetically. They include a list of grammar objectives.

Shalom Mennonite School staff created grade level grammer objectives for students in grades 2-8. Each grade's objectives are broken into smaller sections including punctuation, capitalization, specific writing tasks, and grammar.

Shalom Mennonite School staff created literacy objectives for students in grades four through six. Their focus was on analyzing, interpreting, and summarizing what is read and creating independently produced pieces that...

Questions for Library Book Reviews is designed to help volunteers evaluate a book for the school library. The questions are divided into categories to evaluate the moral lesson of the book, authority, family structure, Anabaptist...

Shalom Mennonite School staff created literacy goals for their students in second and third grade, focusing especially on comprehension and writing. They included a list of suggested writing activies to help accomplish these...

A sample Bible Memory schedule for grades 1-8. This table lists the verses each grade will memorize, breaking it down to show the verses learned each month. A few passages are repeated in older grades.

A sample staff evaluation form. Directions at the beginning list the purpose of an evaluation and common mistakes of evaluators. Twenty categories are rated on a scale of 1-15 with space at the end for comments about individual...

School is about learning. However, the learning that takes place in our schools must go far beyond the academics if we are to be truly Christian in our education. Parents in our communities are expecting, and hoping for, maturity...

This teacher's job description was created for teachers at Shalom Mennonite School. We offer it as a sample, and to provoke your own thinking on this topic. Courtesy Lyle Musser.