It is really encouraging to have a friend who cares enough to help us out of the pits of life. Another thing a teacher can do to teach community is provide cooperative and collaborative working relationships. Dyads, triads and structured small groups or teams are excellent passage-ways into the broader community. A key way for children to feel as though they belong to the community is to express acts of kindness and concern for others. The child-creation relationship.
Children rightly deserve the dignity that accompanies being capable of fulfilling a meaningful task.
At the dawn of creation, God provided humankind with both the dignity of purposeful work as well as the talents and abilities to complete the work. The creation or cultural mandate recorded in Genesis 1 and 2 describes the kingdom task as caring for and developing creation or culture for God's glory and for the enjoyment and well-being of humankind. To accomplish that task, God provides every person with various amounts and types of talents so that each aspect of the task can be accomplished. They must also be told that they have been born as royal subjects of the Eternal King and are to develop their unique set of natural talents and spiritual gifts to carry out their kingdom task. That, in fact, is the primary purpose of their formal education.