Principle Approach® Resources and Noah Plan® Product Guide
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Accessible training in the Principle Approach for teachers and parents
Training in the philosophy and method of the Principle Approach is essential to applying it in the classroom. The
Cost: only $299.99 for the complete set of 16 sessions and receive a FREE bonus session or $19.95 per individual session
Preparing to Teach in the Principle Approach
Session 1: Discerning Worldviews
Our worldview teaches our beliefs through the subjects we teach—what worldview are you teaching? What do/don’t we believe and why? Applications made from the presuppositional principles of a Biblical worldview yield liberty. This session deals with American exceptionalism—what is true about our national identity. We have a unique message and political theory.
- Understanding contrasting worldviews in order to articulate and explain your own beliefs
- Identifying the basic life questions
- How do Christian thinkers resolve the issue of multiculturalism in relation to values?
Session 2: Providential History: Who’s On the Throne?
This DVD demonstrates practical and simple ways to give our children a framework for understanding all of life and learning as His (God’s) Story.
- Who made me, why was I made, what is my purpose? God has a plan for me!
- Learning to see the hand of God in His Story gives meaning to life and hope for the future!
Session 3: God’s Principle of Individuality—Identity and Its Consequences
In the Principle Approach, one Principle anchors all others—God’s Personhood and the created personhood we all possess in His image. This bedrock truth is so basic that it is the principle from which every Biblical principle springs.
- The Christian versus the pagan idea of God, man, and government
- Teaching each subject by studying the hand of God in the individual life
Session 4: Teaching and Learning History with The Chain of Christianity®
- Thinking governmentally—the reasoning process of problem solving by seeking the source or cause of what is known or seen
- Using the notebook approach, primary source documents, and special day celebrations to make history come alive for the students
Session 5: Governing from Within: Christian Self-Government and Christian Character
Learn the significance of the principle that is fundamental to preserving our liberty and constitutional republic. Christian self-government is the ruling of one’s own internal and external behavior according to God’s law found in the Bible.
- Contrasting Christian self-government with pagan self-government
- The classroom constitution and Christian character
- Defining conscience, sacred, property, and consent
- How does conscience afford liberty? How do these principles apply to education within our republic?
- What is the difference between a republic and a democracy?
Session 7: The Keys to the Kingdom—Internal
- What seed are we sowing? The parable of the sower is the well-loved parable that relates directly to educating our children.
- Educational application: in the Principle Approach, we are “planting” with the method as well as the curriculum we teach
Session 8: Teaching Bible and
- The case for teaching reading using the Bible
- Stages of reading development and strategic reading process
Session 9: How to Teach and Learn by Principles and Leading Ideas
Learn how to identify principles and leading ideas and how the methodology works in the classroom.
- Reflective learning, conviction rather than persuasion, internal gives rise to the external
- Examine principles found in the Scripture and learn how to identify and reason from principles in each subject
Session 10: Words Have Consequences! The Key Word Study and the 1828 Dictionary
- The value of Webster’s 1828 An American Dictionary of the English Language for word study
- Utilizing God’s written Word as a key to the meaning of words
- Biblical principles deduced from the study enable the student to “take possession” of each word
Session 11: Teaching Literature
- Ignite the love of learning through stories—“the purpose of literature is to reach the heart.”
- Study of biography to teach Christian character, principles and leading ideas gleaned from the classics
- The Bible as the highest model of literature
Session 12: Teaching Mathematics
- How do we go about finding relevant Scriptures or the Biblical foundations of mathematics?
- Key individuals and their contribution to mathematics
- Relevant Scriptures: the Biblical foundations of science
- Developing a science timeline, 4-R’ing and the scientific method
- English is teaching literature first; we study English to become excellent communicators
- In teaching English, our focus is on the refining of expressive language
- Foundations of English and the six components of English
Session 15: Teaching Geography
Geography is a dynamic subject to teach and a vital part of the whole elementary curriculum. It reveals “God’s handwriting on the earth.”
- The use of map studies to understand the places in His Story
- Looking at mathematical, physical, and political geography
- Learning God’s providential purpose for areas around the world
Session 16: Principle Approach 101: The Unit Lesson (1 hr)
Bonus Session: “You’ve Decided to Homeschool, Do It Right!” (FREE with the purchase of all 16 sessions)
Testimonies and personal experiences from home educators using the Principle Approach, and advice from Master Teacher and The Noah Plan senior editor, Dr. Carole Adams