This was extremely helpful for my professional life but also along with my personal life. I am excited to be able to share this with my students and to also have a new perspective for Scripture myself!
A Child Hungry for God
Forming for Yearning
Not Just Learning
Discover an approach to how faith can be effectively passed on to children according to their developmental stages — in regular school and home settings. Join free to browse a great wealth of resources to implement this approach.
Five Qualities You Can Expect of Us
...our hope is that as your faith increases, our field among you may be
greatly enlarged...
- 2 Cor 10:15
Faithful
Holding to the Church’s teaching and God’s way of reaching and growing souls, with lessons steeped in liturgy and Scripture.
...let the children
come to me,
and do
not hinder them...
- Matt 19:14
Flexible
Adaptable for the youngest toddler to the oldest teenager, in school or home settings of all degrees of space availability.
...the life was made manifest, and we saw it, and testify to it, and proclaim to you...
- 1 John 1:2
Personalist
Focusing on the person of the parent or teacher, not on a program, as the decisive influence in formation.
...since the children share
in flesh and blood,
He himself likewise partook of the same nature...
- Heb 2:14
Holistic
Approaching the child from body to heart to mind, from earliest ages to the end of adolescence, to form spiritual maturity.
...you shall give
as the Lord
your God
blesses you...
- Deut 16:10
Affordable
Ensuring that cost is never the barrier to being deeply trained, and qualifying many teachers and parents in this approach.
All the elements on this website are supported by outstanding online workshops to teach you all aspects and skills of how to succeed in doing this well with whatever age of children you want to engage.
Whether you are a school teacher or parent, the workshops of the Educating in Christ (EIC) Track are designed for you!
And it’s completely affordable!
Window into a formation workshop
The Vision of the Educating in Christ Approach
This workshop, intended as formation and training for teachers and parents desiring to use this approach, will give you a look at how all the workshops in EIC Track are designed. These workshops focus not only on developing key understandings and skills, but also on the spiritual growth of the adult experiencing them. They are most effective when used in one-to-one mentoring relationships or in groups of teachers and/or parents.
Window into a lesson
Annunciation to Mary
Teacher's Aims
- To proclaim the story of the Angel Gabriel’s annunciation to Mary that God desires her to become the mother of His Son
- To lift up the first part of the “Hail Mary” prayer
What people say about EIC training workshops
Wow this one was my favorite so far. I am taking tons of great information from this workshop and applying it to my classroom. Thanks for the making this class possible.
This is an excellent workshop. I found myself listening to several segments multiple times just so that I could copy every word spoken - they were all gems. And I kept thinking what a gift this would be for the parents in my parish to have access to, perhaps via small group discussions.
This was a challenging but very important topic. I thought Dr. O'Shea was instrumental in my being able to understand it all. I really liked the way he was so deliberate and slow in his examples of teaching young children.
These workshops are perfect for me. They are like mini-retreats where I realize that the Holy Spirit is leading me along in the way that is best for my students.
I finished up my workshop formation. Wow, it has lit a fire under me to really deeply reflect more upon my own life and spirituality as well as fired up to really up my game with delivering the contents of the faith. I picked up a lot of those references in the lessons and I am ready to go at it. I have used a bunch on techniques already in my tenth-grade class and it has already shown to be highly effective with a lot of results, praise be to God.
I greatly appreciate the work at your own pace element to the workshop. It is very difficult with two small children and a full-time job to complete a full day in person training course on a weekend. Thank you for having an interactive, online option for completing my studies.
I came home and started a workshop that I couldn't fault! Part of my job is to pick out the problems in software (bugs, bad user experience, etc.) and I can be very critical! But there was nothing I could honestly fault. It is a brilliant online learning environment. The one thing I did believe I would disagree with is “a personal encounter” with the mentors and presenters. I have never seen that implemented successfully in my seven years in software. However, I feel it has been done very successfully here. I've gotten to know you more through your sharing of experiences, struggles and your testimony. You shared in an honest, humble, and trusting way in the workshops.