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Articles by Steve Holtrop

Steve Holtrop serves as Professor of Education and Director of Graduate Studies at Dordt University.

Teaching Christianly at the Graduate Level

  • Steve Holtrop
0
5 months ago

“Teaching Christianly” remains a stimulating and ongoing challenge for us all in our undergraduate courses—I haven’t met a Christian college where that’s not the case.

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  • Christian education
  • graduate school
  • teaching

Jesus Drives Out an Impure Spirit

  • Steve Holtrop
1
4 years ago

The miracles are one of the ways that Jesus’ knowledge, authority, and power start to be revealed as he begins his ministry. And by the end of his ministry Jesus is offering these same ministry tools to his various followers.

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  • authority
  • impure spirit
  • Jesus
  • miracles
  • power

Christian Views of the Student

  • Steve Holtrop
5
4 years ago

Christians don't all agree on the best way to frame a specifically Christian view of the student. Drawing on Niebuhr's idea that there are various ways to think about the relationship between Christ and culture, let's look at three biblically-informed ways Christians have come to view the young humans sitting in our classrooms.

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  • biblical framework
  • Christianity
  • culture
  • students
  • teaching

Re-Creating in Nature

  • Steve Holtrop
2
4 years ago

Recreation is a way to get an adjustment, to rebalance our facets of personhood, to allow ourselves to be totally physical, totally mental, and totally emotional all at once.

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  • God
  • nature
  • recreation

Standardized Testing: Help or Harm?

  • Steve Holtrop
2
5 years ago

Outside of the halls of education, we have many real-world ways to test knowledge and skills. If we want to teach someone to bake a cake or do a J-stroke in a canoe, we don’t give a paper and pencil test – we look for successful demonstrations of the skills. Even where we need a paper test for some head knowledge stuff, like when we get a driver’s license, the road test is the real proof of the pudding. In school settings, then, what we really need are valid measures of what students know and can do.

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  • education
  • standardized tests
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