1. Identifying and Developing Your Strengths as a Teacher
August, 2017 FBEP Teachers Week
Howard Lichty

2. Identifying and Developing Your Strengths
The Disciples in Your School
Who Are You
Don’t Live in the Ditch
As Good Stewards

3. The Disciples in Your School

4. Foundations
Honesty…

5. 14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. 15 For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. 16 Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. 17 So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. 18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.

6. The first step in understanding ourselves is recognizing that we have both strengths and weaknesses.

7. Foundations
Honesty…
Motives…

8. Romans 12:3 For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. James 4:10 Humble thyself in the sight of the Lord, and he will lift you up.

9. Foundations
Honesty…
Motives…
No Man is an Island…

10. 1 Cor. 12: The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” 22 On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,

11. Ecc. 4:9-12 9Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. 10 For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! 11 Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? 12 And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

12. Our Responses…
…as a person of STRENGTH
…a MARTYR spirit
…ABIVALENCE

13. The “Perfect” Teacher Knows what needs to be done 100% of the time.
Does what needs to be done 100% of the time.
Understands how to relate with everyone 100% of the time.

14. The Teacher Spiritual Fervor Personality Technical Knowledge Habits
Established
Personality
Emotional
Makeup

15. Tensions
Acceptance vs Motivation for Change
Academic vs Spiritual

16. Tensions Acceptance vs Improvement Self-Reliance vs Team Player
Pride vs Laziness
Self-Reliance vs Team Player