March 2021
関係を築く
03/11/2021 13:54
学校というところは児童生徒の学びの場だ、ということは周知のことだと思います。けれど、教師達にとっても学びの場所だということをご存知でしたか?今学年度、教師達が探求していることのひとつに、「キリスト教の視点から教える」とは何か、というのがあります。「Teaching for Transformation」は、今教師達が学んでいるプログラムの名前で、その目的は、児童生徒が、神様に創造された者としての自分を発見し、神様の創造された世界での自分の役割は何か、を発見できるように、児童生徒を導びくことができるように教師達が学んでいくことです。「Teaching for Transformation」の活動の一環として、微積分学と物理学のクラスでは、数学を通して、驚きと畏敬の念を表すことができるということを理解するように努力しています。毎月生徒達は、歴史的な数学者が語った、礼拝、驚き、畏敬の念を表す言葉を見つけて、なぜ、数学者達がそのような言葉を発したのかを理解するようにしています。一例として、重力の理解を深め、その他多くの貢献をしたガリレオの言葉を引用しましょう。「数学は神が宇宙を書いたアルファベットだ」。
ある生徒はそれに答えてこう言いました。「数学は宇宙を作り上げる建設資材として見ることができる。人が複雑な宇宙を理解することを助け、また、人が神様から与えられた思考を使って、物を作り出すことの助けとなる。数学によって現象を説明することができるし、直感や観察だけではわからない神の創造を理解する手助けとなる。実際の例として、数学と化学が融合すると、より幅の広い世界観が生まれる。微積分学のクラスでは、ある思考が他の思考と繋がり、物理学と化学などに応用できる。」
- ディビッド・マーシャル 教務主任
他の生徒たちからの考えや引用は教室に用意した木に貼ってあります。写真をご覧ください。
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Building Connections
03/11/2021 13:48
We know that school is a place where students learn, but did you know it's a place where teachers learn, too? This year, one of the topics our teachers are exploring is what it means to teach from a Christian perspective. "Teaching for Transformation" is the name of the program the teachers are using, and its aim is to equip teachers to help students to grow in their understanding of who they are as God's creation and what their role in God's world is.
As one of our Teaching for Transformation activities, the calculus and physics classes have been working to understand the relationship of mathematics to wonder and awe. Each month, they have looked at quotes from mathematicians in history that express worship, wonder, or awe, and tried to understand why the mathematicians responded to mathematics in the way they did. Here is an example from Galileo, who helped the world understand gravity better, among many other things: "Mathematics is the alphabet with which God has written the universe."
One student wrote in response: "Mathematics can be seen as a building block to the universe as it helps explain intricacies and helps us, as humans, to use our God-given thought processes in order to build and create. Mathematics helps explain occurrences and leads us to understand God's creation in a way that intuition and observation cannot tell us. Some examples of this in the real world are in how mathematics and sciences fit with each other in order to create a wider worldview. Within our calculus class, this has been exemplified through the way in which certain ideas connect to others and can be applied to other sciences such as Physics and Chemistry."
-David Marshall, Director of Teaching and Learning
The many thoughts and quotes from other students have been woven into a tree on the classroom wall, shown in the picture below.
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New Building Photos
03/05/2021 12:03
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October 2020 (from elementary entrance)
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December 2020 (from elementary entrance)
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January 2021 (from elementary entrance)
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April 27, 2021 (from elementary entrance)
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May 24, 2021 (from elementary entrance)
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November 2020 (from auditorium ramp)
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December 2020 (from auditorium ramp)
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January 2021 (from auditorium ramp)
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April 19, 2021 (from auditorium ramp)
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April 27, 2021 (from auditorium ramp)
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May 4, 2021 (from auditorium ramp)
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May 24, 2021 (from auditorium ramp)