Defining and Finding Your Niche

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The Teacher's Influence In The Comunity

• Defining and Finding Your Niche
• A Vision for the Classroom
• Building Community Relationships
• Contributing to Community Culture

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A Vision For the Classroom- ROOTS

• Isa 406 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What
  shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the
  goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field
• 7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth
  because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it
  surely the people is grass.
• 8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth but
  the word of our God shall stand for ever.

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ROOTS

• In the Word of the Lord!
• So then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by
  the Word of the Lord!

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ROOTS

• In History-
• World History
• Church History
• Local History
• Personal History

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ROOTS

• In Traditions
• Jer 616 Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the
  ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where
  is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall
  find rest for your souls. But they said, We will
  not walk therein.

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A Vision for the Classroom- REBUKE

• Isa 6210 Go through, go through the gates
  prepare ye the way of the people cast up, cast
  up the highway gather out the stones lift up a
  standard for the people.

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REBUKE

• The ignorance of absolutes
• The scorn of authority
• The snare of affluence
• The arrogance of achievement
• The sin of mediocrity

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REBUKE

• Less than the best is not enough!
• Mal 17 Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar
  and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In
  that ye say, The table of the LORD is
  contemptible.
• 8 And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it
  not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is
  it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor will
  he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person?
  saith the LORD of hosts.

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A Vision for the Classroom- RESTORE

• Isa 611 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me
  because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good
  tidings unto the meek he hath sent me to bind up
  the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the
  captives, and the opening of the prison to them
  that are bound
• 2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD,
  and the day of vengeance of our God to comfort
  all that mourn
• 3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to
  give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy
  for mourning, the garment of praise for the
  spirit of heaviness that they might be called
  trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD,
  that he might be glorified.
• 4 And they shall build the old wastes, they
  shall raise up the former desolations, and they
  shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of
  many generations.

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RESTORE

• The old wastes (chorbah)at home and abroad
• Raise up the former desolations (shamem)

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A Vision for the Classroom

• ROOTS
• REBUKE
• RESTORE

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• De 322 Let my teaching drop as the rain, My
  speech distill as the dew, As raindrops on the
  tender herb, And as showers on the grass.