One of the most important aspects of teaching might be extending the students learning beyond the prescribe course material. Teaching life lessons, or so-called "soft skills", such as time management, perseverance, intellectual curiosity, can help the student thrive in academic, social, and professional settings. The teaching process does not stop at the classroom, rather the skills we teach and the knowledge we transfer should help the student succeed in many different milieus. One possible…

Classroom management is a challenge for every online instructor because a typical class has students from different age groups and cultures. A Christian school or university provides a unique environment where one might think that despite these age and cultural differences harmony would be a given. But even in such a "Christian" setting the classes consist of people from a wide range of religious and nonreligious backgrounds, holding to a variety of very different worldviews. There are likely…

One of the most important tasks we have an instructors is to ensure that our students develop critical thinking skills. Although this is not implicit in the syllabus of every course, it is nonetheless important that we help our students develop such thinking skills by augmenting the material and asking questions within the discussion forums that help pique our students' intellectual curiosity. Critical thinking is not only important in the academic realm, as we all know, it is also crucial for…