http://catechistsjourney.loyolapress.com/2008/08/12/getting-to-know-your-new-textbookcatechist-manual/ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:31:04 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://catechistsjourney.loyolapress.com/2008/08/12/getting-to-know-your-new-textbookcatechist-manual/comment-page-1/#comment-755 Joe Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:16:34 +0000 http://www.catechistsjourney.org/?p=463#comment-755 Darcie, I work for the publisher of the textbook that I use in class and even I never go page by page! Yes, textbooks are crucial resources, but faith is alive and unless we pull our noses out of the books and come up for air once in awhile, we run the risk of making the Catholic faith a subject instead of a way of life and an encounter with Jesus. Thanks for your comment. Darcie, I work for the publisher of the textbook that I use in class and even I never go page by page! Yes, textbooks are crucial resources, but faith is alive and unless we pull our noses out of the books and come up for air once in awhile, we run the risk of making the Catholic faith a subject instead of a way of life and an encounter with Jesus. Thanks for your comment.

]]> http://catechistsjourney.loyolapress.com/2008/08/12/getting-to-know-your-new-textbookcatechist-manual/comment-page-1/#comment-756 Darcie Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:51:53 +0000 http://www.catechistsjourney.org/?p=463#comment-756 I am a DRE, and I have been encouraging my catechists NOT to use the book page for page- I may have to coin your phrase "death march" to emphasize my point!! Thanks! I am a DRE, and I have been encouraging my catechists NOT to use the book page for page- I may have to coin your phrase “death march” to emphasize my point!!
Thanks!

]]> http://catechistsjourney.loyolapress.com/2008/08/12/getting-to-know-your-new-textbookcatechist-manual/comment-page-1/#comment-757 Joe Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:36:22 +0000 http://www.catechistsjourney.org/?p=463#comment-757 Maureen, I love your imagery of a "death march" through the textbook! That could be painful indeed! Maureen, I love your imagery of a “death march” through the textbook! That could be painful indeed!

]]> http://catechistsjourney.loyolapress.com/2008/08/12/getting-to-know-your-new-textbookcatechist-manual/comment-page-1/#comment-758 Maureen Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:02:13 +0000 http://www.catechistsjourney.org/?p=463#comment-758 Make the text fit your theme. I really dislike the text I have been given, but the DRE is ademant that using a different one is not an option. So I've decided to focus the year on the study of the "Our Father" prayer and take the children slowly through the various points of the "Our Father" by cherry picking which chapter apply rather than taking a children on a "death march" through the textbook. I'll be relying heavily on the Catechist handbook, which does have some useful supplimental material and ejecting as much of the children's text as I can reasonably get away with. Make the text fit your theme. I really dislike the text I have been given, but the DRE is ademant that using a different one is not an option. So I’ve decided to focus the year on the study of the “Our Father” prayer and take the children slowly through the various points of the “Our Father” by cherry picking which chapter apply rather than taking a children on a “death march” through the textbook. I’ll be relying heavily on the Catechist handbook, which does have some useful supplimental material and ejecting as much of the children’s text as I can reasonably get away with.

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