After completing this training course, you will earn 0.3 CEUs and a certificate of completion in your Adventist Learning Community e-portfolio.

By the end of this course you will be able to:

1. Understand the key ingredients of a spiritual growing environment.
2. Identify pedagogical strategies that contribute to a classroom culture of thinking and learning.
3. Understand the Transformational Planning Framework as a transformational teaching tool in the teaching of Bible.
4. Incorporate thinking routines into Bible class in order to maximize mental engagement and authentic spiritual learning.
5. Understand the importance of both content and process in teaching Bible.
6. Understand and interpret the elements featured in a teaching unit.
7. Describe how an understanding of biblical discipleship can inform a contemporary understanding of what it means to be a disciple.
8. Become familiar with a range of strategies for differentiating the Adventist Encounter curriculum.
9. Apply differentiation strategies in a single or multi-grade classroom in order to promote student growth.
10. Understand some of the relevant issues that impact assessment in the Adventist Encounter Curriculum.

1. Elementary Encounter Website
2. Encounter Booklet
3. NAD Elementary Bible Standards

Principal Writer of the Elementary Encounter Curriculum

Lanelle has invested her working career in the ministry of Adventist Education, having taught at both Elementary and Academy levels in Adventist schools in Australia and serving as the Assistant Director of Adventist Education in the New Zealand Pacific Union for eight years prior to returning to Australia in 2010. She also spent ten years developing a Pathfinder curriculum for the Youth Department of the South Pacific Division.  Lanelle has a Master’s degree in Religious Education and has for the past 11 years delighted in the process of dreaming up, then helping to create the Encounter Bible Curriculum for schools in Australia and New Zealand. Her roles have included the development of the curriculum framework, creative directing, writing, editing, and managing all those little processes in-between. One of her greatest pleasures is having opportunities to help others become passionate about this curriculum. She is astounded at God’s grace and leading in this project and can’t wait to share this with us.