Getting Started as a Catechist
Recording Available of Getting Started-Primary Grades Webinar
The recording of the Webinar I recently offered titled Getting Started as a Catechist – Teaching Children of Primary Age is NOW AVAILABLE! To view it, you can either click here or go to the Webinars Tab up above and click there. Here’s the Note Taking Handout for this webinar. Have a great weekend! Print Friendly
Comings & Goings
Off to Dallas…Remember My Webinar!
I’m off to Dallas, TX (as if it’s not hot enough in Chicago!) to spend a day with a few hundred catechists talking about The Role of the Catechist. I’ll be there with mis amigos Miguel Arias and Luis Ramirez who will be doing the Spanish track that day. Don’t forget to register and tell others about my Webinar coming up on August 19: Getting Started as a Catechist! (Part One) Print Friendly
Under the Influence of Jesus
Final Installment of Comments and Questions from Under the Influence Webinar
Here is the final installment of some more wonderful comments and questions from last evening’s Webinar on my new book, Under the Influence of Jesus: The Transforming Experience of Encountering Christ. I find that when I am not at peace all the others become more difficult to demonstrate, easier when I am at peace, trusting God. (Ron W.) I wonder how to say “sourpuss” in Latin. I’m picturing the translators debating whether to use “sourpuss” or […]
I just attended your first session of the catechist webinar series. I found it very useful and look forward to session two. Thank you and may God continue to bless this ministry.
Thanks, Charles…”see you” in 2 weeks!
If you are a subsitute teacher and dont have time to visualize yourself teaching or read the book ahead of time or overplan what is the best thing you can do when going into the class?
Pablo that is indeed a tough situation! I’d love to hear from other substitute catechists about their strategies. I would think that a lot of substitute catechists carry with them some “routine” tried-and-true activities and approaches that they can draw from at any time. Likewise, I think some of the reading strategies I suggested such as the Paired Interviews can work in such spontaneous situations where you don’t have time to prepare. Substitutes can also have some prayer experiences that they can bring in to any situation to engage students without preparation. Again, I hope we hear from some other substitute catechists or from DREs who rely on substitutes to offer some strategies from their experience. Thanks Pablo.