…Called to Teach…

What a great mission, to know that you are called to be a teacher, especially in a Christian school.

Remember this, when you stand in front of your students, in that moment you are the most important person in their lives. Your actions, attitudes, and words can have an amazing impact on their lives.

The responsibility that comes with the designation of TEACHER can be a burden… or a passion! Especially in a Christian school, that passion as a messenger of God can have eternal consequences.

Your students will leave your classroom and go on with the rest of life.

When they leave, they will take part of you with them.

That part of you…

• direct them to God?
• encourage them to excel?
• passionate about the mission?

You get it, don’t you?

This whole God thing puts an amazing and amazing impetus on teaching in a Christian school. Or at least it should.

We must not be content to be “as good as the public school.” We must transcend that measuring stick and create our own.

It is extremely critical that we cling to the idea that “we are more than conquerors.”

We cannot be content with apathy, because increasing apathy diminishes the ability to think critically. Once our critical thinking becomes moldy with apathy, we are at extreme risk of becoming apathetic toward God.

That is why we have entered this profession called teaching. Our passion is to help achieve a sense of radical excellence that makes Christian school educators unique in the world of learning and leadership.

It is our passion to help those in Christian schools catch the vision of what it takes to set a standard rather than reach for a secular standard that has been repeatedly shown to be infused with fatal flaws.

To create our own unique identity in the world of learning, we need to focus on a few fundamental elements.

• seek radical excellence by returning to traditional values
• develop outstanding leadership that is imbued with courageous vision
• create schools that are highly focused and committed to scripturally based mission statements

Speaking of passion, three teachers with over sixty years of combined service in various Christian schools across the country, both as classroom teachers and administrators, have come to an inescapable conclusion.

We have started a journey towards creating a national movement that promotes a system of excellence, it possesses a unique identity and encourages mission-focused operation. This growing action MUST be initiated and nurtured by teachers and administrators developing a genuinely professional dialogue system that works.

To that end, we encourage Christian teachers to join us in developing a national communication forum that will eventually allow us to create a local voice that is respected and heard. You can read more about our efforts by visiting the site listed in my author bio and reading a document called “The PACT Report” that develops the concept of a Professional Association of Christian Teachers.

So the charge is simple.

Keep the faith, fight the fight.