Course Description
The best educational experience strikes a proper balance between effective leadership, excellent teaching, and thoughtful curriculum development. This course seeks to examine the process for achieving the delicate but necessary balance between these three critical areas: leadership, teaching, & curriculum.
For information regarding prerequisites for this course, please refer to the Academic Course Catalog.
Course Guide
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Rationale
Ministry is, at its very nature, educational. Ministry is also, at its very nature, leadership-driven. So, it stands to reason that students interested in the area of ministry should learn how to effectively lead and how to effectivly coordinate the curricular direction of the ministry to which they have been called.
Course Assignment
Textbook readings and lecture presentations
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Course Requirements Checklist
After reading the Course Syllabus and Student Expectations, the student will complete the related checklist found in the Course Overview.
Discussions (8)
Discussion are collaborative learning experiences. Therefore, the student is required to provide a thread in response to the provided prompt for each discussion. Each thread must be at least 400 words and demonstrate course-related knowledge. In addition to the thread, the student is required to reply to the threads of at least 2 classmates per discussion (thus making a total of 4 replies.) Each reply must be at least 200 words. Each discussion spans two Modules: Weeks. The initial threads are during the odd Modules: Weeks. The replies are during the even Modules: Weeks. (CLO: A, B, C)
Curriculum Project Assignments (3)
The Curriculum Project Assignments will serve as a major foundation for this course. As a whole, the project will expose the student to the world of church curriculum. Additionally, the project will give the student the opportunity to engage in the process of curriculum planning. The project will be submitted in three parts. Please see the specific assignment instructions that accompany these assignments in Canvas. (CLO: B, C)
Reflection Essay Assignment
The student will write a 1-2 page reflection essay in response to two of the three prompts provided. (CLO: A, B, C)
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