I had the pleasure of joining Dorian Speed, Marc Cardaronella, and Jonathan Sullivan on The Catechetical Leader Podcast, a podcast for catechists, DREs, religion teachers, and other parish leaders.
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Advent Activities
Now Available: The Religion Teacher’s Advent Activity Pack and Jesse Tree Kit. The Internet is loaded with advent activities of all sorts and kids. Check out the following links to help guide your way. Here are some general advent activity hubs on the web. These pages have other great resources to check out: USCCB Advent…
Video Tutorial: Selecting Teaching Strategies and Activities – Step 4
This is the final video in support of The Religion Teacher’s Guide to Lesson Planning, the free ebook available here at The Religion Teacher. In these two video tutorials I provide a framework for choosing teaching strategies and activities. The core of this framework is the acronym, PROCESS. I like to think of learning as…
Video Tutorial: Determine the Lesson Assessment – Step 3
In this third installment of the video training material for The Religion Teacher’s Guide to Lesson Planning, we look at assessment. Assessment is most commonly thought of as tests and quizzes, but it is much more than that. Assessment should be seen as a variety of means to check students’ understanding and mastery of learning…
Video Tutorial: Creating Lesson Objectives – Step 2
This video tutorial introduces teachers and catechists to creating lesson objectives using a simplified taxonomy of educational SWBAT objectives.
Video Tutorial: Lesson Preparation – Step 1
Here is the first installment of the video series based on The Religion Teacher’s Guide to Lesson Planning free e-book. In this tutorial you will learn: The sources for selecting topics How to incorporate a curriculum and a textbook into lesson plans How to select the most important information to teach How to use the…
Introducing the Free E-book: The Religion Teacher’s Guide to Lesson Planning
On this feast of St. Charles Borromeo, the patron saint of catechists, I am proud to bring you my first e-book: The Religion Teacher’s Guide to Lesson Planning. This guide provides teachers and catechists with a simple system for lesson planning success. Included in this 63 page e-book are: Unit planning and lesson planning templates…
The Living Rosary: Bring the Rosary to life for your students!
Looking for a special way to pray the Rosary? Try bringing a Living Rosary to your school or religious education community. This beautiful prayer service takes some preparation and practice, but many teachers have found it makes for a powerful and prayerful annual tradition. The Rosary, in this case, is made of students, with each…
Rosary Activities
Get The Religion Teacher’s Rosary Worksheets for Kids! Includes handout meditations on each mystery of the Rosary to help young people not only recite the prayers but enter into the mysteries of the lives of Christ and Mary. (Special Offer: Buy these rosary worksheets for kids and get two free classroom videos on “How to…
Why I Am Catholic (Activity)
Today we had the privilege of welcoming our retired local Bishop at our Sunday liturgy. It was the first time my sixteen month old daughter had seen a bishop at Mass. She watched him process in with the deacon and altar servers as she had watched the priest and company process in at previous Masses….
