December 14, 20202: Catechists Meeting Recording
In case you were unable to attend the meeting, here is the recording with helpful information regarding accessing Progress Reports.
Helpful Links for Catechists
- What Church documents are improtant to a catechist, what they contain and where to find them.
- Internet Use and Lesson Planning: Check out these guidelines to ensure that what you select is appropriate for Catholic catechesis
VICARIATE I CATECHISTS TRAINING
Below are links to the Zoom Gatherings presented by Vicariate I to help Catechists transition to E-Learning.
How to Successfully Run A Digital Meeting PW: r3Ej#B@i
Classroom Management PW: uiD$5Pw1
Teaching Ideas PW: adsHe#U5
SADLIER RESOURCES/Webinars
Webinar on How to Access Free Sadlier Materials (Liturgical Calendar, Saint of the Day, Games, and so much more!
Webinar on creating and posting We Believe Online Assessments
PW: SADWBOANS*2020$!
Classroom Management Tips
- Basic Classroom Management - begin here to make disiciples
- Promoting prosocial attitudes in the classroom. This coincides nicely with creating an environment that encourages discipleship and community.
- 8 Proactive Classroom Management Tips
- Organizing the Classroom
- 5 Principles of outstanding classroom management
- Smart Classroom Management - Short articles with excellent tips. You can also subscribe to receive them weekly (free).
-How to avoid a bad start to the year.
-Using modeling to help students understand expectations.
-Making a routine you modeled unforgettable.
-How to make a modeling succeed.
-The importance of modeling.
-How to give directions students can follow.
-How to make transitions work.
-How to analyze what is going wrong with your routine/discipline strategy-and how to help it get corrected.
-How to use music to make clssroom routines fun.
-Keeping track of consequences.
Positive discipline/coaching in the classroom:
- Setting classroom procedures at the beginning of school
- Management strategies and tips
- Postitive dicipline criteria - video
- Postitive discipline being used - video
- Changing your thinking - and getting better results
- The inspiriation you can find in the Mighty Ducks; a flip using this video
- Power of believing that you can improve - not 'failure' but 'not yet.'
- Helping children self-regulate. Two of these - the rhythm and singing bowl could be used in our context. Do NOT use the bath technique. It could be easily misinterpreted.
- The power of emotions in helping children self-regulate
The Digital Classroom
- Creating a community learning culture in the digital classroom
- Designing lessons that can be both online and in-person
- Fostering Social/Emotional Learning and classroom community while online
- 25 Brain Breaks - if your kids need to just burn off a few minutes of energy, these get them up and moving and then ready to sit down again. My suggestion is to have one redy to go, so that you're not scrolling through your options while they get even more antsy.
"Morning Meeting" resources:
- Morning Meeting for beginners
- Video example of a Morning Meeting
- Morning Meeting games
- More Morning Meeting games and greetings