Friday, February 25, 2011

Integral Pedagogy - Fr Norbert Menezes SJ


Jesuit Father and educator Norbert Menezes returned to Singapore to conduct another series of Integral Pedagogy centred talks aimed at Catholic school teachers, principals, religious education teachers and members of SMCs and Supervisors. The talks and workshops started on the 22nd of February and will continue till the 5th of March. In all, he will meet with groups of educators on nine occasions.
Amongst his topics are: The Core Aspects of Catholic Education, Reflection Skills in Teaching, Leading a Catholic School and How do you evaluate Catholic Ethos.
Fr Menezes is currently the secretary for Jesuit Education for South Asia. He holds 2 Masters degrees - in education as well as Science (Mathematics). He has also authored a total of seven books on education.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Walking with Jesus Workshops


ACCS organised 2 workshops, on the 26th of January and the 9th of February for teachers of the "Walking with Jesus" biblical based programme for Primary School Catholic students. The programme compliments the CCC based "Call to Faith" programme taught in the parishes.
The session was divided up into three parts; A Biblical overview by Msgr. Eugene Vaz, Music and the programme structure by ACCS Executive Director, Ms Wendy Louis.
The sessions were attended by forty one teachers over the two days.
The video below is the first of two videos of the Biblical Overview.