Secondary Education (Men)
This academic program is designed to train teachers for the Christian secondary 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 6:1 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
The Secondary Education major requires a student to choose two teaching fields. A student is expected to be proficient in the teaching fields that he chooses. During his first year in college, he will be required to pass a proficiency test for the teaching fields that he picks. Teaching fields include the following:
ENGLISH
A teaching field in English requires the following courses: English Literature | American Literature | Teaching English in the Christian School | Teaching Diagramming and Spelling in the Christian School | Advanced Grammar | Advanced Composition
HISTORY
A teaching field in history requires the following courses: History of Civilization | United States History | Other
advanced-level history courses
MATHEMATICS
A teaching field in mathematics requires the following courses: Teaching Algebra in the Secondary School | Algebra | Calculus and Analytic Geometry | Advanced Calculus | Linear Algebra
MUSIC
A teaching field in music requires the following courses: History of Music II | Philosophy of Music | Music Theory I | Music Theory II | Choral Directing | Teaching Music in the Christian School | Choir or Orchestra | Private Study | Music in the Bible
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
N/A
SCIENCE
Students may choose either biological science or physical Science.
A teaching field in biological science requires the following courses: Human Anatomy and Physiology | Invertebrate Biology | Vertebrate Biology | Botany| General Science Survey | Organic Chemistry
A teaching field in physical science requires courses within the following categories: Basic Physics (10 credits) | General Chemistry (10 credits) | Science electives (2 credits)
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
This course emphasizes the Biblical and practical principles of training believers to become spiritually mature.
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
Bible electives (3 credits)
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.
Baptist Principles and Preachers
A course covering the foundational beliefs of Baptists and the leaders of fundamental, independent Baptists in America
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).
Systematic Theology I
A study of the Bible doctrines of the Trinity, the Church, Heaven, and Hell.
Educational Psychology
The use of psychology in the classroom is brought out through case studies.
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.
Marriage and Ministry
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.
Teaching field courses (6 credits)
See above for teaching field opportunities and more details.
Junior
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.
Teaching field courses (12 credits)
See above for teaching field opportunities and more details.
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.
Advanced Educational Methods I
Teaching field courses (12 credits)
See above for teaching field opportunities and more details.
Senior
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.
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 field courses (14 credits)
See above for teaching field opportunities and more details.
Student-Teaching Internship
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.
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