Three Principles for Effective Teaching
The laws that govern good teaching can be understood similarly to the way Jesus explained that the entire law could be boiled down to two commandments. In theory, one who loved God fully and accurately and, in a similar manner, loved his neighbor as himself, would fulfill the whole law.
Instead of getting bogged down in all the complicated details of how to succeed as a teacher, one can simply establish and continue to develop three essential principles:
- Theological convictions – thinking and speaking accurately of God
- Intellectual competence – knowing how the parts of anything relate to the whole of everything
- Relational connection – teaching students not curriculum
On these three principles hang all the laws of being and growing as an effective teacher.
