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Reformed Education.
Covenant Teachers College serves Reformed schools and their supporting communities by preparing teachers for these schools and by providing in-service support for practicing teachers. Covenant College, therefore, carries out its task within the broader context of Reformed education. Both the content and the delivery of its programs reflect the same principled perspectives that give Reformed education its distinctive identity.
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Reformed education is covenantal in character. The binding relationship of love which God has established with his people is the framework within which children are to be nurtured in godliness and equipped to live out their calling as prophets, priests, and kings. |
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Reformed education is confessional in character. Education is normative because all of life is governed by the Word of God. |
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Reformed education recognizes the antithesis. Children are equipped with the knowledge and skills to recognize the battle lines of the struggle to which Christ calls them to live in holiness by doing the will of their Father. |
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Reformed education functions in a unity of purpose of home, school, and church. When home, school, and church are united with respect to the education of the children, the work of each benefits all in the communion of saints. |
Students at Covenant College learn how these principles inform the practice of Reformed schools. The Reformed school carries out its academic task in an environment where children are safe and protected and where their physical, spiritual, social, emotional, and intellectual well-being is being nurtured. This concern with the growth of the whole child is reflected in educational programs and methodological practices that foster intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, and discernment. This concern also informs the assessment and discipline practices of Reformed schools. Teachers recognize the importance of a purposeful transfer of responsibility from teachers to students in preparing children to be salt and light in the world.
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