We need to know what materials you will be teaching from… there are several programs out there…
We need to know the “grade” and/or ages of the students - I know you say “high school;” however, that’s a really broad range of grades, ages, and stages in their faith journey. Will you also be doing confirmation preparation?
This will be my second year, first year with 4th graders and a new family based curriculum. Last year we had what could have been characterized as night school, or parent date night. The kids were dropped off and we were to attempt to get the little darlings engaged in their faith after a full day of secular education. In my group about half couldn’t read at grade level which made the lessons very difficult. Good group of kids, very well behaved, just already worn down from the school day. So what I developed was a series of interactive games based on the final exam and we worked on simple memorization of the prayers…
One activity that I wanted to work on was/is based on file folders used in a home schooling project called lapbooks:
homeschoolhelperonline.com/lapbooks/folding_lapbooks.shtml… it looks promising in that the students get to involve sight, touch, and kinetics in the activity and in small group we get the sound and social interaction; thus, involving all of the major senses and social skills so that we can hopefully reach all of the learning types (yes, I have taken some education courses… wanted to teach Chemistry at some point; however, my provisional expired and I’ve not had the time or money to pursue the career change
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In fact, look at the home school and teacher/education websites for ideas on how to present materials. I tried modifying presentation ideas used for cultural anthropology, history, and some of the duller aspects of chemistry and mathematics. These materials were often geared towards the upper grades so you might be able to translate the material more easily than I.
Hope this helps… and the more details you can provide concerning the available (required) materials, the CCD/PRE-materials, and the age group the more we can help/
OH - you should go to the book store, or teacher supply, and purchase a bound lesson planner book. There are templates on the web; however, unless you have some experience teaching, the basic lesson planner will often do just well for your needs. It will help you to keep your class on task.
2nd… attendance sheets… unless provided by your program… there are dozens of templates available on the web… do a search and use one that works for you.
The way I used mine was this (and I think this is a standard method… anyway it was the way I was shown in my education classes:
Blank… attended
Slash from upper right to lower left ( / ) absent, not excused.
Add a short leg from the middle of the ( / ) to the lower right… looks like a “T” for tardy
Full “X” for excused absence
Filled block, no school – I normally just left these blank and draw a line thru the dates in the calendar section or if planned schedule then I didn’t include them on the chart.
