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The University of Dayton
 

Planning Process: June 2001

This is a guideline for your final report due in April 2002.
Step One: Envision A Future or Dream a Vision
  1. How do you (we) envision the New FIRE initative for your parish, school, diocese, or classroom?
  2. How do you envision students being engaged with the new media age for catechesis?
  3. How will this relate to how our students learn about their faith and the rich traditions of our Church?
  4. How does this relate to the way catechists may be teaching in the future? How do we prepare our catechists to teach in new ways?
  5. How do you imagine catechesis going beyond the four classroom or study walls?
  6. How does your vision relate to the role of catechesis today?
  7. How do you conceive the parish, school or diocese being influenced by the new media culture -- or a new catechetical process?

Step Two: State the Team's Mission

Step Three: Set Goals:
State these in general terms or goals. For example: "To provide start-up in-service sessions on the new media/information age for all our catechists." Or "To identify alternative learning strategies for teaching and learning in religious education today."
Step Four: Design Action Steps:
Examples: "To provide on-site training and support of catechists to support their utilizations of media/Internet for teaching and learning." "To review and select new learning strategies to meet the needs of students today." "To begin to make accessible media/communication technology to support catechists and catechetical leaders."
Step Five: Estimate Costs (if any):

Step Six: Set Time Frames and Determine Those Responsible:

Step Seven: Evaluate:
How will you determine if your New FIRE initiative is succesful? This should be spelled out for each goal, for example:
  • "Catechists and catechetical leaders are trained in implementing or using__ (Media/Internet/Film/Media Literacy)__and are successful using it."
  • "Catechists have found new ways of teaching and learning based on the new media resources."
  • "New In-Service training sessions have been integrated for certification of catechists based on the new media age."
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