Freedom & Simplicity in HisStory

Freedom & Simplicity™ in HisStory is where you can begin to apply Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ after getting the Big Picture of L.E.D. through The Seminar.

I designed Freedom & Simplicity™ in HisStory to help you build a strong foundation in Providential history and biblical principles, and then apply it. It contains everything you need to learn how to lay a biblical foundation in HisStory and teach it by biblical principles. It does not contain specific history lessons (beyond the foundation) but teaches you how to learn and teach history. My goal was to make it simple enough to understand for someone new to biblical principles education, yet comprehensive enough to really lay a good foundation in a biblical philosophy of ed. – all three aspects, philosophy, methodology, and content.

From the first section of it you should be able to lay the foundation fairly easily. It presents the Biblical Foundation – source/origin and purpose of HisStory, as well as the Rudiments – P.I.P.E. & the P.I.P.E.line of HisStory (what we study and the context), and 7 Biblical Principles of Liberty (goal of HisStory). IOW, what we study, how, and why. This is where we should all begin.

The second section teaches you the process of learning, the components of reflective learning – how it goes beyond traditional “pour it in and spit it out” learning, then covers 7 Pillars of Excellence – 7 tools we utilize to walk us through the process contrasted with other ways education is done (such as, we focus on ideas and principles rather than random facts, discipleship through discussing and guiding rather than lecture, real resources rather than text/work books, etc.)

The third section goes into the application, planning the lesson – what to keep in mind as you are planning, suggestions of steps to follow when planning, then presenting the lesson – components of the actual lesson and ideas of how to do them and questions to utilize for digging into various types of studies. Then some practical ideas such as long term scheduling, learning journals, high school, beginners, integrating subjects, some resources I recommend, etc.

I close with a summary review for you to work through, called Discipleship yoU!™, and resources to begin with, then several appendices of extra helps.

If you need more practical help, after digesting Freedom & Simplicity™ in HisStory, you can find several things on my L.E.D. blog, as well as email me questions.