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The primary purpose of Johnson Bible College is to educate students for specialized Christian ministries with emphasis on the preaching ministry. A secondary purpose is to provide programs in Christian leadership and community service. The purpose of this program is to provide graduate education in Bible and Educational Technology as a service to professionals such as the following:
Students completing this program successfully should have achieved the following outcomes. 1. Reflect the person and work of the master teacher, Jesus Christ. This objective is covered in all courses with special emphasis in selected Bible classes and Integrating Biblical Values and Educational Technology. 2. View teaching as a Christian profession as they minister to children and their families. This is addressed throughout the program. 3. Integrate biblical and technological knowledge into their current knowledge base. This objective is met in Integrating Biblical Values and Education Technology BIBL5160 class which seeks to have the student to integrate their biblical principles with their technological knowledge. 4. Effectively communicate from a Christian worldview. This objective is covered in all courses with special emphasis in selected Bible classes and Integrating Biblical Values and Educational Technology. 5. Appreciate and integrate global and multicultural perspectives. This is address throughout the program. 6. Manage and maintain technology resource in their school or work setting including hardware maintenance and network development. The two courses of hardware and hardware maintenance and networking significantly enable the students to meet these outcomes. Almost all of the students, who graduate on this program and return to their schools are involved in hardware, assessment, troubleshooting, and working with the school network. 7. Understand and apply principles of human development within the technological classroom. Children who are growing up today have come out of a different world, even from those a generation previous. From a very early age, at least 18 months maybe earlier, children are exposed to technology from the toys they use. These children grow up with no fear of the computer or technological format to classroom instruction. As a result of this, teachers need to learn to take principles of human development, which they have already studied and apply to use in a technological classroom. This is integrated within all of the technology classes as students are required not only to study the material for themselves, but to prepare lessons plan and teach this material as appropriate to the age of the children in their classroom. 8. Demonstrate the technical skills required for competent classroom instruction using technology. While in each class, students are required to teach classroom technological materials to their students. The Action Research Project allows candidates for the master degree, to be assessed on the standards as to their competency for developing classroom instruction that integrates technology. 9. Understand the factors that influence the schools curriculum and philosophy as it relates to the implementation of school wide technology and training. The course on Special Issues: Integration of the Computer into the Classroom CPED5401 requires the student to study the principles of curriculum development and integration technology into that development, and as a final project to develop a technology curriculum plan for their classroom for the next year. This plan includes the curriculum scope and sequence for the subjects taught within their classroom and show how technology will be integrated throughout this curriculum. 10. Demonstrate a professional concern for the ethical use of technology. Students study in the Ethics course BIBL5160 the basics of ethics and how they apply to the ethical use of technology. 11. Develop and implement a plan for staying current in educational technology. Since nearly all the graduates become leaders in their schools or work settings in the area of technology, this very factor requires them to stay current. There is also a list serve for Educational Technology graduates, where many of the graduates discuss what they are doing and exchange ideas and show how they are keeping up with topics that are being discussed. 12. Meet the ISTE national standards NET-S. Students in most courses are required to relate the learning that they are experiencing back to NET-S standards and show what they are studying relates to both the NET-S standards for teachers and the applications of it to meet the NET-S standards for their children that they are teaching.
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