Elementary Education (Men)
This academic program is designed to train teachers for the Christian elementary school. The Education Department has been carefully crafted with spirit-filled classroom instruction and practical teaching opportunities. We believe it is urgent to train future educators to become proficient in their field to meet the high demand for quality Christian educators around the world.
At Hyles-Anderson College, you will encounter an 8:1 student-teacher ratio, making your professors available to help you reach your personal goals. Your teachers not only are experts in their fields, but they also set a solid Christian example and lead the way both academically and spiritually.
Students have many opportunities to teach, both in front of peers as well as within the Hammond Baptist School system. Before graduating, all students with an education major must complete a student-teaching internship. This vital opportunity gives them actual classroom teaching experience and a chance to be mentored by and work under experienced master teachers.
While attending the First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana, students learn from pulpit preaching, invitations, baptismal services, funerals, weddings, business meetings, and much more. Each student studies the varied, successful ministries of the First Baptist Church and has the opportunity to be involved in these ministries, which include the following:
- Church planting
- Truck stop ministry
- Sunday schools
- Choirs
- Discipleship
- Orchestra
- Reformers Unanimous
- Deaf ministry
- Bus ministry
- Blind ministry
- Soul-winning visitation
- Jail ministry
- Spanish work
- Rest home ministry
- Youth work
- Developmentally challenged ministry
Freshman
Church Education
This course teaches church work including Sunday school, promotion, nursery work, bus ministry, deaf work, Spanish work, youth work, rescue mission work, and work with the educable slow. The duties of pastor as administrator are emphasized, including church financing, building design, church planting, and pastoral duties.
Old Testament Survey
This course is a foundational survey of the Old Testament. The purpose, distinctives, characteristics, and broad outline of each book are presented to give a grasp of the entire Old Testament.
English
A student will be placed in an English class based on his English scores on the American College Test (ACT).
Personal Evangelism
This course provides an emphasis on the man, methods, message, and means of evangelism, and it includes a careful study of the Spirit-filled life of the soul winner as well as the work.
Discipleship
Life Skills
A course covering a variety of topics including finances, study skills, health, critical-thinking skills, time management, life planning, and more.
Acts of the Apostles
This course covers the book of Acts with its evangelism and church growth.
Church Education
This course teaches church work including Sunday school, promotion, nursery work, bus ministry, deaf work, Spanish work, youth work, rescue mission work, and work with the educable slow. The duties of pastor as administrator are emphasized, including church financing, building design, church planting, and pastoral duties.
New Testament Survey
This foundational survey of the New Testament covers the author, background, and purpose, as well as a broad outline of each book to give a grasp of the entire New Testament. Special emphasis is placed on the beginning, purpose, place, and instructions concerning the New Testament Church.
English
A student will be placed in an English class based on his English scores on the American College Test (ACT).
21st-Century Missions
Basic Homiletics
This study of the preparation and delivery of sermons is designed to instruct in selecting, outlining, and gathering materials, as well as in delivering the message.
Personal Finance
This course, presented with a Biblical view of money and finances, trains students to handle financial matters, including the basics of setting up a family budget, dealing with credit, types of insurance coverage, and bank accounts.
Sophomore
Public Speaking
Introduction to Education
This course includes a brief history of education and its importance to our culture. It also gives an introduction to the art of teaching.
English
A student will be placed in an English class based on his English scores on the American College Test (ACT).
Baptist Principles and Preachers
A course covering the foundational beliefs of Baptists and the leaders of fundamental, independent Baptists in America.
Counseling Moral Failures
This course seeks to examine and practically address moral issues that people face including adultery, pornography, fornication, and more. These moral issues are explored from their deepest root source in the heart with the doctrines of guilt, shame, fear, deliverance, and redemption emphasized in the Scriptures.
Bible electives (5 credits)
Educational Psychology
The use of psychology in the classroom is brought out through case studies.
Systematic Theology I
A study of the Bible doctrines of the Trinity, the Church, Heaven, and Hell.
Philosophy of Education
This study places Christian education in its proper perspective with an emphasis upon its historical and philosophical developments. The course also emphasizes the philosophy behind the methods and goals of Christian education.
Principles and Methods of Education
An introduction to the main principles of the teaching experience and the general methods that are used to effectively fulfill them in the Christian school experience.
Marriage and Ministry
Physical Science Survey I
A chemistry survey course including topics such as the history of natural science, the origins and objectives of modern science, atomic and molecular theory, and chemical terminology.
Junior
Physical Science Survey II
A physics survey course including such topics as Newtonian mechanics as well as electric and magnetic phenomena.
Fundamentals of Music
A study of the fundamentals of music, including notation, basic forms of rhythm, keys, major scales, music terminology, and intervals.
Advanced Educational Methods I
Great Teaching Methods
A study of various teaching techniques, making provision for individual differences, discipline methods, and lesson planning. This course is a prerequisite to all other method courses.
Literature
United States History I
The history of the United States from the pre-Columbian civilizations to 1877, studying the political, social, and economic developments of America.
Literature
United States History II
The history of the United States from 1877 to the present day covering the major eras during this time period.
Teaching Physical Education in the Elementary School
This program will include lesson planning of games, activities, and skills appropriate to the grade level of students in the elementary school. This course includes teaching of individual skills, team sports, and physical fitness, as well as written knowledge of rules, procedures, and teaching methods.
Advanced Educational Methods II
This course is designed to help prospective teachers refine their teaching abilities. Lesson planning, methodology, and pedagogy are covered. The student is required to give several in-class presentations.
Teaching Mathematics in the Elementary School
Instruction is given in the transfer of mathematical principles in line with the spiritual and physical life with practice in the class on how to instruct children.
Bible electives (2 credits)
Teaching Music in the Elementary SchoolBasic course involving techniques used in teaching songs, rhythm, notation, instruments, and the appreciation of music along with organization of music materials, sources of music, and how to teach general music in the Christian school.
Senior
Electives (5 credits)
Child PsychologyThe development of the child to adolescent age, including the physical, emotional, intellectual, cultural, social, moral, and spiritual phases of life, is studied.
Teaching Science in the Elementary School
This course is a study of the methods for teaching science in the elementary classroom. Opportunities for practice teaching in the class are made available with the application of scientific concepts in line with the spiritual application.
Teaching Reading and Language Arts in the Elementary School
A heavy emphasis is placed on the phonetic approach, and the teaching of spelling, handwriting, and English in the elementary school.
Teachers’ Writing Seminar
A study of the mechanics of writing, giving practice in revision. The curriculum includes development of technique and style, punctuation and capitalization, and practice in writing letters, narrative writings, essays, and descriptive paragraphs.
Church and School Transportation
Designed to instruct the students to become proficient in operating buses and vans used in church transportation, this class will give comprehensive training in general driving and safety education.
Student Teaching (one semester)
Students gain active classroom experience and put into practice everything they have learned from previous classes by completing a student-teaching internship at Hammond Baptist Schools under the direction of an experienced master teacher.
For more information, please consult the college catalog.
You may also contact the Academic Office at 219.365.4031, ext. 1210.
Recent Chapel Sermons
- Not Everyone Can Be Outstanding But, Everyone Can Be Upstanding — Loyd Warren September 30, 2022
- My Father’s Commandment — John Wilkerson September 29, 2022
- Excited About Excellence — Anthony Collins September 28, 2022
- Making a Difference — Clarence Sexton September 27, 2022