4.0 Synthesising Activities:
The following learning activities attempt to bring together many of
the issues that have been raised by the various authors in the Elliott & Holtrop (eds)
1999 text. These activities are not intended to be comprehensive but illustrative of the
kinds of strategies that might be used to encourage synthesis of the ideas, concepts,
processes and strategies that you have confronted throughout this Study Guide and the
accompanying text.
4.1
Provocative Thinking
4.2 Key Issues
4.3 My Favourite Author(s) from ‘Nurturing and
Reflective Teachers'
4.4 Reflecting and Nurturing Others
4.5 The Buddy Approach
4.6 ‘Check-up’ Activities
4.7 Communicating Personal Conclusions and Plans
4.8 Our Concluding Prayer
4.1 Provocative Thinking:
Your engagement with the text, or sections of it, will
have provoked your thinking on various issues.
Complete the following table:
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4.2 Key Issues:
Issues with which you need further assistance include:
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4.3 My Favourite Author(s) from ‘Nurturing and Reflective
Teachers: …’
Which particular author(s) provoked your thinking on the nurturing
and reflective aspects of teaching in the 21st Century?
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4.4 Reflecting and Nurturing others:
The activities that have been included in this Study Guide have been
designed to foster your engagement with the ideas and concepts outlined in the
accompanying text. As a result, you might have realised your need to work with others and
to nurture them to become reflective and nurturing themselves. Use the following table to
outline a possible personal plan:
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4.5 The Buddy Approach:
Take some time to chat, over a cup of coffee, tea or …, with a
teaching colleague about the following unfinished sentences:
- The most interesting idea included in the text was …
- An unusual quotation in the text was …
- The most radical thought that came to me while reading the text or completing
activities from this Study Guide was …
- An useful idea in the text was …
- The most comprehensive concept raised in the text was …
- A strategy, that I could integrate into my role and teaching, is …
- I believe that the Lord would have me to …
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4.6 ‘Check-up’ Activities
a] In the light of your reading and thinking, what is your personal
conception of nurture?
b] How have your abilities to reflect on issues of concern to Christian
educators been enhanced through your interrogation of the text and of the learning
activities in this Study Guide?
c] How might you integrate notions of nurture and reflection
with your personal and professional practices?
d] What strategies might you develop to assist your colleagues and
students to become nurturers of others?
4.7 Communicating Personal Conclusions and Plans:
Compose an E-mail to Robert Herschell (r.herschell@uq.net.au) or Darren Lloyd (chc@chc.qld.edu.au), authors of this Study Guide,
expressing:
- Your views on the learning that you gained from completing activities included in this
Study Guide;
- An outline of the issues that have most focused your attention and captivated your
personal passions and God-given desires;
- Requests for assistance on issues that have arisen as a result of your completion of
some, or all, of the activities included in this Study Guide;
- Personal stories of how: (i) you have nurtured someone or assisted them to become more
prepared for teaching in the 21st Century; or (ii) your personal life has been
nurtured and critically enhanced as a result of completing some, or all, of these Study
Guide Activities.
4.8 Our Concluding Prayer:
"Lord Jesus, thank you for working in the
lives of those who have engaged the learning activities that are included in this Study
Guide. We appreciate the ideas, contexts, processes and resultant outcomes that have been,
and are being, developed in their life.
Our heart’s desires are that people will
serve You with their entire mind, soul and strength. Help us with the issues that we are
facing in our personal life and professional responsibilities. We need to become nurtures
of others as well as becoming critically reflective of our, and others’, professional
educational practices.
As we walk this journey of life and ministry of
teaching together, help us to be the people that You want us to be so that we can help
others to find and follow You. Help us to become ‘Christian teacher educators who
truly know how to, and also do, Teaching Christianly’.
Please help our Walk to be congruent with
our Words, our Ways and our Work for You!
We pray in Jesus precious name!
Amen."
 
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