1. Each of us brings gifts to share with the group.
WELCOME!
Gathering Activity: Gift Boxes
Each of us brings gifts to share with the group.
Decorate one of the “gift boxes”
Write on it one gift you bring to the group.
Keep the box with you.
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2. Welcome to the Teacher Development Renaissance Module
Session 1: Teaching and Learning – What Shapes Us?
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3. Please share renaissance program * Name * Congregation or setting
* Role or position in congregation
* Number of years in Unitarian Universalism
* Number of years in the field of religious education/ministry
* Number of Renaissance Modules taken
* RE Credentialing status (level completed or in progress)
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4. Orientation to Teacher Development Renaissance Module
Online Evaluation
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5. Renaissance Program renaissance program Administration
Adult Faith Development
Curriculum Planning
Ministry with Youth
Multicultural Religious Education
Philosophy of Religious Education
Teacher Development
UU Identity
UU History (online)
Worship
UU Theology (online - in development)
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6. What was it about you that allowed that to happen?
Think of a teacher who made a difference in your life.
What was it about you that allowed that to happen?
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7. Thomas Groome Shared Praxis
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8. What?
So what?
Now what?
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9. Focusing activity; naming our own knowing
What?
Focusing activity; naming our own knowing
Critical Reflection
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10. Make available the vision/story of the faith community
So what?
Make available the vision/story of the faith community
4. Dialectic -- reflecting on our new information
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11. (invitation to action)
Now what?
5.Decision/response
(invitation to action)
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12. 1. Focusing Activity – the hook:
What do YOU know about this? not, what have you been told to think about it?
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13. An activity to help evaluate or learn more about what we already know
2. Critical reflection:
An activity to help evaluate or learn more about what we already know
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14. An image that helps make meaning of life; disclosure, not closure.
3. The story/vision of the faith community:
An image that helps make meaning of life; disclosure, not closure.
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15. 4. Appropriation:
Make this your own! What do you affirm, question, add? (the safety valve that keeps us from controlling)
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16. To return to ones own lived experience again.
5. Invitation to response, action, decision:
To return to ones own lived experience again.
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17. The Courage to Teach
On your card……a moment of joy you have had in teaching and on the other side of the card, a moment of despair.
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18. SLT Hymn 118 This Little Light of Mine
This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine (3x)
Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine.
Ev’ry where I go, I’m gonna let it shine (3x)
Building up a world, I’m gonna let it shine (3x)
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19. Session 2: Teachers as Learners and Seekers
Please share an “aha moment” – something that occurred to you during the first session or since that was a new learning, changed your point of view about something, raised a new question, etc.
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20. SLT Hymn 389 Gathered Here Gathered here in the mystery of the hour
Gathered here in one strong body
Gathered here in the struggle and the power
Spirit, draw near.
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21. -Parker Palmer, The Courage to Teach
“Reduce teaching to the intellect, and it becomes a cold abstraction; reduce it to emotions and it becomes narcissistic; reduce it to the spiritual, and it loses its anchor in the world. Intellect, emotion, and spirit…are interwoven in the human self and education at its best.”
-Parker Palmer, The Courage to Teach
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22. Safe Congregation Practices
Specific aspects of safe congregations that affect volunteer teachers are:
Providing personal information requested when recruited
Abiding by the two-adults-in-the-classroom policies (For the protection of the teacher as well as the students)
Reporting any incidents that arouse concerns about safe congregation practices
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23. Session 3: Supporting Learners and Seekers
SLT #123 Spirit of Life -words by Carolyn McDade
Spirit of Life, come unto me. Sing in my heart all the stirrings of compassion. Blow in the wind, rise in the sea; Move in the hand, giving life the shape of justice. Roots hold me close; wings set me free; Spirit of Life, come to me, Come to me.
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24. Allelu, allelu, allelu, alleluia! Sing and rejoice. Alleluia!
SLT Hymn 367 Allelu, Allelu
Allelu, allelu, allelu, alleluia!
Sing and Rejoice.
Sing and rejoice. Alleluia!
Sing and rejoice.
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25. Reflect about the role of space in teaching and learning in faith…..
What’s important in an environment beyond safety? What makes a teaching and learning environment in a faith development setting welcoming?
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26. The Paradoxes of Space renaissance program Parker Palmer
Space should be bounded and open
Space should be hospitable and “charged”
Space should invite the voice of the individual and the voice of the group
Space should honor the “little” stories of the students and the “big” stories of the disciplines and traditions
Space should support solitude and surround it with the resources of the community
Space should welcome both silence and speech
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27. Meditation on Breathing
Session 4: Toolkits for Teachers – Empowerment for Learning and Seeking
Meditation on Breathing
Singing the Journey
#1009
When I breathe in, I'll breathe in peace.
When I breathe out, I'll breathe out love.
Breathe in, breathe out.
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28. Planning a Teacher Development Event
Include:
Mission and goals for the workshop or event
Number of teachers to be involved
Format and length
Scheduling (with leadership)
Content (including activities)
Tools that teachers need for ongoing support and daily use
(continued)
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29. Presentation should include:
An overview of the teacher development workshop/event
With statement of the mission and goals of the workshop
A list of the tools that teachers need for ongoing support and for daily use as they facilitate in lifespan faith development classrooms
A demonstration of at least one activity you would do with your teachers
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30. Meditation on Breathing
STJ Hymn 1009
Meditation on Breathing
When I breathe in, I'll breathe in peace.
When I breathe out, I'll breathe out love.
Breathe in, breathe out.
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31. Session 5: Group Presentations and Closing Worship
Hymn 1000 Morning Has Come
music and words by Jason Shelton
1. Morning has come, arise and greet the day!
Dance with joy and sing a song of gladness!
The light of hope here shines upon each face.
May it bring faith to guide our journey home.
cont’d
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32. renaissance program 2. A new day dawns, once more the gift is giv’n
Wonder fills this moment shared together.
The light of peace here shines upon each face.
May it bring faith to guide our journey home.
3. Open our eyes to see that life abounds;
Open hearts to welcome it among us.
The light of love here shines upon each face.
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33. Collective Reflection
What are the tools teachers need?
How can we frame teaching as spiritual development?
What were some of the best elements across presentations?
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34. Closing renaissance program Blessing Ritual
(Name), may your teaching project the condition of your soul onto your students and bring a blessing to your ways of being together on your spiritual and religious life journey.
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