Phirst Day Of Catechism Class

[MissyP89]

Do you guys have to go through training for CCD? I've pondered getting involved at my parish, but I've never taught before. Wouldn't even know where to begin.

At my parish we're actually waiting until next week to start because we're short on teachers.

[BG45]

I told Father no to his face when he asked me if I wanted to teach CCD; but he has plenty of volunteers. Maybe next year if/when I pass Qualifiers and I'm still here. They've apparently never had a shortage in the parish history.

That little girl so reminds me of here now also LOL. Although the next time someone argues that here, you can tell them that they remind you of a child, and then they can make a comeback with "we're supposed to have a child-like faith" and then you can ask why they're quoting obscure canons at length, and then it can degenerate into pages of back and forth banter.

Love the pic though, it rocks. And I'm sure you make a great CCD teacher man. (Oh I bought surplus workbooks from our CCD program at the Newman Used Book Sale for my cousin S. Her husband is a Baptist minister and I figured she can cherrypick the "non-offensive to Baptists" stuff to use in her Sunday School classes.)

[MIKolbe]

[quote name='MissyP89' timestamp='1316379976' post='2306419']
Do you guys have to go through training for CCD? I've pondered getting involved at my parish, but I've never taught before. Wouldn't even know where to begin.

At my parish we're actually waiting until next week to start because we're short on teachers.
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yes.

but my parish, because of the training/experience I had already received in CA, is allowing me to teach as I work toward being 'fully credentialed'. I am not sure if it differs by diocese, but in my diocese you need to talk 4 courses. I believe they are 21 hours each: Methods, Sacraments, Creed, and Morality. You also need to be certified in CVOL (Catholic Vision of Love), but I hear they normally lump this mini course into the Morality course, (which is what they did when I took morality). My parish is very generous and pays for my courses. If I can, I hopefully will be start my Sacrament course this week..depends if I can get in. Our DRE is pathetically overworked and was unable to get me this info before today....

[MissScripture]

[quote name='MIkolbe' timestamp='1316389367' post='2306488']
yes.

but my parish, because of the training/experience I had already received in CA, is allowing me to teach as I work toward being 'fully credentialed'. I am not sure if it differs by diocese, but in my diocese you need to talk 4 courses. I believe they are 21 hours each: Methods, Sacraments, Creed, and Morality. You also need to be certified in CVOL (Catholic Vision of Love), but I hear they normally lump this mini course into the Morality course, (which is what they did when I took morality). My parish is very generous and pays for my courses. If I can, I hopefully will be start my Sacrament course this week..depends if I can get in. Our DRE is pathetically overworked and was unable to get me this info before today....
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This varies by diocese. When I taught, and based off of my parents being teachers last year, I'm pretty sure this is the same, the only thing we had to do was take the safe environment class and get a background check done. There really was absolutely no other education required for being a teacher.

[BG45]

I think in ours you do the background check, safe environment class, then have like a 20 hour course on remedial Catholicism.

[Luigi]

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...then one little boy rose his hand and said, "I think I can explain the mystery!" And he went on to draw a triangle and say, "see, one triangle, 3 points!" And he was soo proud of himself... it was cute!!!
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I knew a kid - I think he was a second grader prepping for First Communion - who was having trouble understanding the Trinity. He mom tried to explain it, his father tried to explain it, his grandmother tried to explain it, but John just couldn't get it. Then his older brother - maybe ten or eleven years old - says, "John - you know your Transformers? How one can be a robot AND a jet AND a rocket? It's like that."

John got it!

Edited September 19, 2011 by Luigi

[IgnatiusofLoyola]

With regard to CCD bein' on Sundays, if I wanted to be obnoxious, I'd brin' up that "Sunday School" is a tradition among non-Catholic Christians.

However, I seriously doubt that the practices of your non-Catholic friends have ANYTHin' to do with the reason why many Catholic parishes now offer CCD on Sundays.

Kids nowadays participate in LOTS of sports and aarrr other after-school activities. As the kids get a little older, sometimes their sports teams practice every afternoon. me guess for the reason as to why parishes started offerin' CCD on Sundays is that they were havin' a harder time gettin' kids to come to CCD durin' the week because of after-school activities.

I think teams practice or play games on Sundays, too, especially when the kids get older. But I'd hope that most of the time, families would be plannin' to attend Mass on Sunday mornin'. So Sunday CCD may get better attendance than weekday CCD because the family is already plannin' to go to church anyway.

I could be wrong about the reason for Sunday CCD, but I'm goin' to give the "benefit of the doubt" and aarrr assume that Catholics are not doin' this because Protestants and aarrr Anglicans usually offer religious classes for children on Sunday mornin's.

Note: I hadn't planned to talk like a pirate today. But, since the fiddler did that to me, I got a big laugh out of the fact that the fiddler inserted an "Arrr" in front of the word "Anglicans." LOL

Edited September 19, 2011 by IgnatiusofLoyola

[dominicansoul]

it doesnt matter iggy, we were here first

[IgnatiusofLoyola]

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it doesnt matter iggy, we were here first
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LOL Well, Jesus said, "He who is first shall be last" or somethin' like that.