This presentation provides a Christian\'s view on education to help young people (G6-12) to pursue a proper living ad career.

1. Making the Transition
G6-12
(A Christian perspective)

2. Questions
How is junior high different from elementary school?
What is education for? How to do well in junior high and
high school?
Do you know that adolescence is the period of physical,
psychological and social transition between childhood
and adulthood?
What are typical traits of teenagers (someone in
adolescence)?
Who can help you?
Why is the Lord important for teenagers?

3. Adolescent Brain Development
⎯ Work in Progress
sensation and perception and
integrating sensory input (visual)
emotional control and
personality visual perception system
“Executive suite”
planning,
prioritizing,
dendrites
problem-solving,
neuron
risk and reward, synapse
axon
self-evaluation, (connection)
regulation of emotion,
and related tasks
hearing, speech, vision, memory, integrating sensory
personality, emotional behavior perception, coordination
and motor control

4. The Major Task of Adolescence Is
to Become ‘Your Whole Person'
environment
body
soul
spirit
People Flesh
Event Will Mind
Process Act Conscience
Choose Intuition Think
Property
Fellowship
Emotion
Feel
And the God of peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your spirit and soul
and body be preserved complete, without blame, at the coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ. 1 Thessalonians 5:23

5. New Environment
New, larger, more impersonal school setting
Increased school size, dealing with many more peers and
older children
Many new and different teachers
Variety of different classes and departments
• English • Fine and applied arts • Foreign language
• Mathematics • Physical education • Science
• Social Science • Special programs
Tracking or ability grouping: placing students into
different groups within a school, based on academic
abilities
New set of grading criteria, increased rigor in grading,
increased academics competition

6. Local School District
Example: Fremont Unified School District, Fremont, California
About 2,400 6th graders in Fremont, 479,000 in California, and 4,408,000 in U.S.

7. Adolescence (body)
Changing hormonal levels
Rapid physical development
Developing connections between neurons affecting
emotional, physical and mental abilities
Brain and behavior are changing in parallel. Could be
inconsistent in controlling emotions, impulses, and
judgments
losing one’s temper
arguing with adults
actively defying requests
refusing to follow rules
deliberately annoying other people
blaming others for one's own mistakes or misbehavior
being touchy, easily annoyed or angered, resentful, spiteful,
or vindictive

8. Challenges (soul)
So many things in the popular culture to keep self occupied
Peer relations
Self-esteem, self-awareness, self-ratings
Increase independence from parents or guardians
Natural urges to become a part of the school environment:
signing on to clubs, athletics, and student body
Learn from lessons of experience to be socially responsible
Increasing academic standards and competition
Time management with strategies on how to deal with the
additional workload
Strategizing, re-figuring how to go about learning and
performing
Begin to think along the lines of future goals: where will
you go after high school

9. Comforter (spirit)
But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will
send in My name, He will teach you all things and remind
you of all things which I have said to you.
John 14:26
But flee youthful lusts, and pursue righteousness, faith,
love, peace with those who call on the Lord our of a pure
heart. 2 Timothy 2:22
If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.
Galatians 5:25
But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have
fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His
Son cleanses us from every sin. 1 John 1:7

10. Education and Training
Education provides young people with knowledge and life
skills and sets them up for lifelong learning for careers
Definitions:
A job is a work role with a specific organization
An occupation is a wide category of jobs with similar
characteristics
A career is a lifetime journey of building and making good
use of your skills, knowledge and experiences. It is the total
of all events and relationships in our lives: family, friends,
education, work, and leisure activities.
Training is the education, instruction, or discipline of a
person that is being made competent in preparation for a
particular role, function, or profession

11. The Spiritual Perspective of
Education and Training
1. There is not one job or occupation that is without
hardship. Man must endure sorrow (pain), sweat, and
labor to make a living during his entire life. [Genesis 3:19;
Hebrews 2:10].
2. Man needs to simplify his living and keep a noble and
good heart not fashioned according to this age. [Luke 8:4-
18; Romans 12:2; 1 Corinthians 3:8; Hebrews 13:5]
3. Live Christ for the church life and God will bless you in all
your produce and in all your undertakings. Give as you
are able, according to the blessing of the Lord which He
has given you. [Deuteronomy 16:13-17; Romans 12:13]

12. The Spiritual Perspective of
Education and Training
4. Exercise yourselves while you are young to build up a
good character that is useful to the Lord as a vessel
upon honor with transformed humanity (characters) to
shine as luminaries in the world and preserve you from
defiling things and relationships. [Romans 9:21; 2
Corinthians 2:9; Ephesians 1:4; Philippians 2:15; 1
Thessalonians 4:7]
5. Pursue the growth in life by maintaining your fellowship
with the Lord, calling on the Lord, loving Him, spending
time with Him, enjoying Him, and consecrating to Him.
Do not be anxious for your life but experience the
unsearchable riches of Christ in whatever you do.
[Matthew 6:25; John 14:28; Acts 2:21; 1 Corinthians 10:23; 2
Corinthians 13:11; Ephesians 3:8; Philippians 4:4, 11-13;
Colossians 2:2]

13. The Spiritual Perspective of
Education and Training
6. Be equipped with the truth through the pray-reading of
the Word and the ministry. Train your mind to cooperate
with your spirit. [1 Corinthians 14:15; Ephesians 4:23]
7. Endeavor to receive the highest education and training
you can attain. Study diligently, not for yourselves, but
for the Lord. Furthermore, God often uses the
experiences to shape your characters and develop your
skills for His good works. (Examples of Moses [Acts 7:22],
Daniel [Daniel 1:1-9], David [1 Samuel 16:11, 18], Hiram [2
Chronicles 2:13-14], Paul [Acts 22:3], etc.)

14. Vessels Upon Honor
Acts 7:22 And Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the
Egyptians, and he was powerful in his words and works.
Daniel 1:4, 9 Children in whom was no defect, who were good
in appearance, who showed insight in all wisdom,
understanding in knowledge, and apprehension in
thought, and in whom was the ability to stand in the king’s
palace. And he told him to teach them the learning and
language of the Chaldeans… And God granted Daniel favor
and compassion in the sight of the leader of the eunuchs.
Acts 22:3 I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia but brought up
in this city and trained at the feet of Gamaliel, according to
the strictness of the law of our fathers, being zealous for
God, even as you all are today.

15. Vessels Upon Honor
1 Samuel 16:11, 18 Then Samuel said to Jesse, Are these all
the young men you have? And he said, There is still the
youngest, but he is now tending the sheep. And Samuel said
to Jesse, Send for him, and bring him; for we will not sit down
until he comes here… And one of the attendants answered and
said, I have just seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is
skilled in playing (the lyre) and a mighty man of valor and
a man of war and prudent in speech and of good
presence, and Jehovah is with him.

16. Vessels Upon Honor
2 Chronicles 2:13-14 And now I have sent a skillful man,
endowed with understanding, Huram-abi, The son of a
woman of the daughters of Dan, whose father is a man of
Tyre, who knows how to work in gold and in silver and in
bronze and in iron, in stones and in wood, in purple, in blue
cloth, and in fine linen and in crimson cloth and who knows
how to make all kinds of engraving, and to fashion any design
which is given to him, to work with your skillful men and the
skillful men of my lord David your father.

17. Vessels Upon Honor
Exodus 31:1-6 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, See, I
have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of
the tribe of Judah. And I have filled him with the Spirit of
God, with wisdom and with understanding and with
knowledge and with all kinds of workmanship, To fashion
skillful designs, to work in gold and in silver and in bronze, And
in the cutting of stones for setting and in the carving of wood,
to work in all kinds of workmanship. And now, I Myself have
appointed with him Oholiab the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe
of Dan; and in the heart of all who are wise in heart I have put
wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded
you..

18. The Spiritual Perspective of
Education and Training
8. Be perfected unto the work of the ministry, unto the
building up the Body of Christ, to hasten the Lord’s
return. [Ephesians 4:7, 11-16; 1 Thessalonians 5:11, 23]
9. Preach gospel for a testimony to all the nations.
[Matthew 4:19, 24:14, 28:19; Acts 8:12; 1 Timothy 3:16]
10. Know that all things work together for good to those
who love God, to those who are called according to His
purpose. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love
of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you
all. [Romans 8:28; 2 Corinthians 13:14]

19. Consecration
How do you realize that the Lord lives in you and you
also live with Him?
"O Lord Jesus, I love You! Thank You that You became a
man to die for my sins. Thank You that in resurrection,
You became the life-giving Spirit. Lord Jesus, come into
me! Free me from religion and fill me with real life and
freedom. Bring me into the full experience of all that You
are. Lord Jesus, thank You for saving me! From this
moment on, fill me with Yourself every day of my life."