Description of Activity
- Teacher awareness of Ontario Catholic School Graduate Expectations
- Weaving the Religious Education and Family Life Education Themes into other subject areas
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SMART Goal Design - Is this goal...
- Specific?
- Measurable?
- Attainable?
- Result-oriented?
- Time-bound?
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Goal/Expected Result
- Teacher familiarity with the Ontario Catholic School Graduate Expectations
- Increasing teacher facility with integrating Catholic principles, values and virtues into the curricula
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Resources
- Ontario Catholic School Graduate Expectations
- Educating the Soul (ICE)
- Ongoing Adult Faith Formation
(ICE)
- Catholic Education and the Corporate Sector
(ICE)
- Curriculum Support for Catholic Schools:
Enhancing the Religious Dimension of Catholic Education
(EOCCC)
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Relevant Catholic Theme(s)
- Dignity of the Human Person
- Intimacy and Sexuality
- Community and the Common Good
- Preferential Option for the Poor and Vulnerable
- Human Rights and Responsibilities
- Dignity of Work and Service
- Stewardship for Creation
- Love and Justice
- Peace
- Hope
- Faith
- Mystery, Wonder and Awe
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CGE(s)
- CGE1g Understands that one's purpose
or call in life comes from God and strives to discern
and live out this call throughout life's journey
- CGE2e Uses and integrates the Catholic faith tradition, in the critical analysis of the arts, media, technology and information systems to enhance the quality of life
- CGE7e Witnesses to Catholic social teaching by promoting equality, democracy, and solidarity for a just, peaceful and compassionate society
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How will success be determined?
- Catholic values evident in approach to systems of reward and recognition, school discipline, extra-curricular activities
- Evidence of student learning that gospel values are integrated, extended and infused into curricula
- School newsletter to parents
- Articles in local newspapers
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| Contributors |
Tasks |
| School Administration |
- Invite Board Religious Education and Family Life
Education Department to in-service teachers
- Establish an in-school or intra-school mentorship
program
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Board’s Religious
Education and Family Life Education Department |
- Provide professional development opportunities
for teachers, either at school staff meetings, meetings
with small groups of teachers or Board office in-services,
including:
- understanding of the Ontario
Catholic School Graduate Expectations
- why it is necessary to integrate religion
into other subject areas
- how to use the EOCCC CD Curriculum
Support for Catholic Schools: Enhancing the
Religious Dimension of Catholic Education
- Methods: Integration, Extension, Infusion
- Knowledge of best practices as outlined in the
ICE document Ongoing Adult Faith Formation
- Examples of existing curricula that integrate
Catholic Themes
- Discuss how this can also be applied to the wider
school community
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| Staff |
- Openness to learning new skills and becoming acquainted
with Catholic curriculum resources
- Willingness to try to create an ethos of right
relationship, mutuality, dialogue and respect throughout
the school community
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| Process Stages |
Details and Considerations |
September/
December
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- Administration invites a member of the Board’s
Religious Education department to in-service the
staff on the Ontario Catholic School Graduate Expectations
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| October |
- Faith Ambassadors/ Religion Department Program
leaders attend Board reflection day on Integrating
Catholic Principles Throughout the Curricula
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| November/June |
- Board’s Religious Education Department and
Faith Ambassador/ Religious Education Program Leaders
in-service staff on Integrating Catholic Themes
Throughout the Curricula
- With the use of the EOCCC CD Curriculum
Support for Catholic Schools: Enhancing the Religious
Dimension of Catholic Education, teachers
will aim to develop a unit of study with the religious
dimension integrated into the curriculum
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Effectiveness (degree to which goal
has been achieved)
- Examine curriculum
- Quality of mentorships
- Short classroom visits
- Conferences with teachers
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Follow Up/Next Steps
- Evaluate and celebrate successes
- Assess further needs
- Develop new strategies
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