Education’s Mission

Response by Our Education Committee.

St. Christopher’s Mission in Education: [in your opinion what is our function, what is Jesus & the Church calling us to as a community]

 

Educate our children in moral & spiritual values. TV, radio, & newspapers are eroding these values. Adults need the same type of education. RCIA.

Pass on our beliefs and traditions to “our” children NOT only in words but by our actions.

 

PRIORITIZATION OF Education’s SHORT TERM GOALS & OBJECTIVES [1994-95]:

Make learning fun. All the children attending all the classes, not just some.

Parents to take part in this.

All parents bring children to Mass not send them.

Bring to light the “New Catechism” through the homilies at Masses.

Get more involved in our liturgies.

Act as a support group for one another through interaction.

 

PRIORITIZATION OF Education’s LONG TERM GOALS & OBJECTIVES:

Retreats & Seminars at our own parish.

Build a larger church due to participation. Well attended classes.

Large & successful Youth Group.

 

STRATEGIES NEEDED TO ACHIEVE THOSE GOALS:

Home phone chain - one call another & so forth. Have friends bring friends for discussion. Parents discussion of how to help teachers.

Fun activities in all aspects of education.

Parents have to do one presentation (15 minutes) in each classroom.

Simple version of the New Catechism.

 

Response by our CCD Teachers

 

PRIORITIZATION OF SHORT TERM GOALS OBJECTIVES 1994-5:

Coordinators: Tuition program, enrollment program, fund-raiser

Kindergarten: Children’s appreciation for family & friends, welcome to Mass, creation

First grade: Prayers [Our Father, Hail Mary], forgiveness, parables of the life of Jesus, Sacrament of Baptism

Second grade: understand Reconciliation & first Communion

Third grade: get the children interested in Church, have them want to come every Sunday, teach them how to use the missalette and to go ahead and use it, show them that learning about God can be fun [3rd graders are very impressionable]

Sixth grade: present weekly lesson plans, make lesson applicable to the student’s own life, stress “respect, one unto another”, teach the importance of prayer & petition, share prayer requests, record in special notebook

 

PRIORITIZATION OF LONG TERM GOALS & OBJECTIVES:

Coordinators: Successful CCD year, help teachers with class problems, help provide Christian Ed. to all ages

Kindergarten:: make the children aware of God’s presence and to thank God through prayer for everyone and everything God has given to us and to each other, to make aware to the children the Mass

First grade: to prepare for receiving Jesus in the holy Euch. & forgiveness in Reconciliation, Baptism

Second grade: better participation in parish activities

Third grade: have the children going to church like the adults, let them know that they have a responsibility to the church, see that they keep learning about God through classes, have responsibility with their own children

Sixth grade: help student see the relationship between the journey of characters in scripture (Moses, Abraham, flight from Egypt) with their own faith journey, discuss putting faith in practice

 

STRATEGIES NEEDED TO ACHIEVE THOSE GOALS:

Kindergarten: using all 5 senses to help children to remember what is taught

First grade: -

Second grade: use of textbooks and parent involvement

Third grade: give kids a good lesson, plan it well, keep them interested, have parents participate when possible, have all children go to church with parents

Sixth grade: promote student participation, sharing faith experiences, videos about lives of the saints, reach them at their level