Children's Religious Education Programs

“Planting Seeds, Growing Spirit”

Parent/Teacher Training Day at Gwynedd Friends Meetinghouse

Sponsored by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Religious Education Department

Saturday, November 1, 2003
9:30am-4:00pm

Cost: $10 (donation)

Children’s programming as well as childcare for the very young will be provided.

Keynote Address by Doug Ross (Radnor Meeting):
“Growing Spiritual Lives of Children and Youth”

Doug will share with us a message on the challenges and joys of nurturing the spiritual lives of children. Doug has been a beloved, exuberant, innovative science teacher and coach at Friends Central School for more than twenty years.

Doug and his wife Jerilyn have been members as long at Radnor Meeting and served for a term as co-clerks of the meeting. He has been a long-time first day school teacher and member of the Religious Ed committee among others. Doug has been an organizer and participant in the Quaker Jewish Dialogue. He and Jerylin have been involved in the Hunger Project and been steady lights in the Mainline Peace Community. They have two grown children.

Below are list of workshop topics that will be included. However, there will be ample space and time devoted to addressing the specific concerns and needs that parents and first day school teachers share with the group. Resource people and participants will listen and lend support and fellowship will grow from it.

Workshop topics include:
Curriculum and library resources
How to overcome barriers to teaching First Day School
Tools and resources for training new teachers
Quaker parenting
Nonviolence and Children: Helping Children Find Peace in Today’s World
Bullying
Middle Schoolers: We Love Them!
Ideas for Games and Intergenerational Activities
Teaching Styles, Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences
Networking opportunities

Great Lunch! Homemade soups and desserts (let us know if you have allergies

There are two ways you can register. 

A. You can click here and download a registration form, print the form, fill it in and mail it. 

B. You can register by e-mail. Highlight and copy the information below.   Click here helenfields@pym.org  and then paste it into your e-mail.  Fill in the information and e-mail it.

Registration
Parent/Teacher Training Day
at Gwynedd Friends Meetinghouse

Name(s) 
Address
Email:
Phone:
Meeting or Affiliation:
Names and ages of children attending:
Age:   Name: 
Age:   Name: 
Age:   Name: 

Check all that apply:
___ I am a parent and want to know more about teaching Quaker faith and practice to my child(ren)

___ I am or hope to be a teacher of First Day School (indicate age group if known:__

I would like to learn more about:
___ Curriculum
___ Parenting
___ Quakerism
___ Teaching techniques and learning styles
___ Bullying and nonviolent conflict resolution
___ How to overcome barriers to teaching First Day School
___ Programs offered by PYM Religious Education team for our children and youth

Make checks payable to "Philadelphia Yearly Meeting"