Learning Is
From Leaderpedia
by Keith Yoder, posted by Kaye Moomaw
Learning Is:
1. Intentional
- Purposes: selects content, and focuses goals.
- Designs: conceives context, plans experiences.
- I Corinthians 2:2
2. Invitational
- Welcomes participation in opportunities to grow
- Creates setting to enjoy learning and raise one’s own questions
- Matthew 13:34-36
3. Interesting
- Engages personal and active interest.
- Stimulates self-motivated pursuit of additional learning
- Acts 17:11
4. Intriguing
- Captures attention
- Draws one into the mystery of unknown
- Matthew 7:28-29
5. Instructional
- Provides direct instruction by a knowledgeable teacher with one or more learners that establishes a foundation for other activities of engagement and application.
- Avoids education consisting solely of direct presentation by a teacher, however, which may limit the full potential of the learner.
- Mark 8:34-9:1; 9:2-10
6. Investigative
- Poses questions that, in some cases, keep the learner on a quest for understanding beyond one’s original comprehension.
- Welcomes discovery and challenge.
- Matthew 19:16-22
7. Incremental
- Builds from known to unknown.
- Progresses in stages according to the capacity of the learner and the nature of the attitude, knowledge, or skill.
- John 4:7-26
8. Interactive
- Engages dialogue between teacher and learner(s)
- Generates opportunities for learners to cooperate in context of relationships and applications
- Matthew 19:16-22
9. Individual
- Accommodates to uniqueness, special needs, and capacities of the learner.
- Provides activities and applications fitting to the gifting and potential of the learner
- I Thessalonians 2:11
10. Indigenous
- Engages and honors local culture and application
- Demonstrates enduring value to, and is reproducible by, the learner
- II Timothy 2:2
11. Incorporative
- Set, shaped, supported in the context of community.
- Assessed in terms of realistic application in appropriate web of relationships
- Ezra 7:10
12. Imparted
- Received through example or by those who give of their own capacity to others
- Caught, as well as taught, through association with persons in mutual experience
- Philippians 4:9
13. Inculcated
- Assimilates (receives into the framework of present understandings and skills) new concepts progressively through repeated engagement over time.
- Accommodates (adjusts present framework to the impact of new learning) to new dynamics resulting in gradual transformation.
- Matthew 13:52
14. Interdependent
- Seeks wisdom, with humility, through the interrelationships of truth.
- Harmonizes the interaction of complementary truths rather than polarizes them
- James 3:17
15. Integrative
- Relates one truth to another truth, subject to subject, principle to principle
- Seeks wholeness of truth in its interrelationships
- Psalm 119:160
16. Integral
- Acknowledges that “All truth is God’s truth.” (Frank Gaebelein)
- Views all knowledge in light of God’s perspective in whom all that is true is one with Him.
- Colossians 2:2-3
17. Invigorating
- Challenges to think and act with fresh passion
- Creates personalized settings that stretch the learner beyond their present capacity
- Acts 18:24-28
18. Inspirational
- Stimulates wholeness of person and expansion of vision.
- Prepares one to respond in worship and devoted service.
- Acts 6:7
