Shaping the Curriculum CYM

1. Shaping the Curriculum CYM What does curriculum mean to you? Curriculum is derived from Latin currere and includes concepts of "a running, course, race, career." The term applies to a studies required for graduation or to all of the courses offered in a school. But this is inadequate

2. Shaping the Curriculum CYM Goals of the talk: • To re-emphasize the variety of curricula • To re-emphasize the informal and formal natures of education • Re-emphasize the roles of the leaders as icons. • Formal curriculum. • Determining goals • Determining content and delivery • Writing - obtaining • Evaluating

3. Shaping the Curriculum CYM Multiple definitions of curriculum, from Oliva (1997). Curriculum is: • That which is taught in schools    • A set of subjects. • Content • A program of studies. • A set of materials • A sequence of courses. • A set of performance objectives • A course of study • Is everything that goes on within the school, including extra-class activities, guidance, and interpersonal relationships. • Everything that is planned by school personnel. • A series of experiences undergone by learners in a school. • That which an individual learner experiences as a result of schooling. p 4 insufficient still

4. Shaping the Curriculum CYM 5 types (there are more) of curriculum: • explicit, • implicit, • experienced • hidden, • null • 2 Types of Education: Formal and Informal

5. Shaping the Curriculum CYM • Formal – The educator approaches the teaching situation with a set of goals. • Informal education is determined by the participant and arises in the encounter… • Youth work is based on this type of (non) “curriculum” • Youth & children’s ministry intentionally involves both

6. Shaping the Curriculum CYM • Youth work emphasis on informal education. Schools on formal. Finland vs Singapore Churches emphasis on infommal • Christian Smith’s research discovered that US teenagers had lost the language to talk about their faith. They did not process the vocabulary or know the stories

7. Shaping the Curriculum CYM • “Articulacy fosters reality. A major challenge for religious educators of youth, therefore… [is] fostering articulation, helping teens to practice talking about their faith, providing practice at using vocabularies, grammars, stories, and key messages of faith.” (Smith 2005: 268)

8. Shaping the Curriculum CYM NYSR Christian Smith, Kenda Cresy Dean – What young people need for healthy Spiritual growth.

9. Shaping the Curriculum CYM • Designing your own curriculum • Understanding that the full breath of curriculum • Explicit, implicit, hidden, experienced and null.

10. Shaping the Curriculum CYM • Clear objectives and goals… • What are some of the objectives and goals in making disciples? • How are these best taught? • How are they explicit? • How are they implicit? • How are these experienced? Take 5 minutes and answer these questions for your program

11. Shaping the Curriculum CYM Explicit curriculum • The Foundation of Knowledge • If your dealing with church children & young people this is Tweenagers up to maybe 14 • For new Converts as well • Caught faith makes on desire taught faith

12. Shaping the Curriculum CYM • What is the hidden and null curriculum? (consumerism, entertainment, individualism, success is the most important: null – parents and families etc.) • Midi Narrative UK; Moralistic Therapeutic Deism USA

13. Shaping the Curriculum CYM • Content of your foundations • What do you include • General Bible knowledge • Creeds • Denominational distinctive • Worship (current and history) • Spiritual Disciplines • Community life skill • Missiological purpose • Your ministry purposes and why • Call to take up the cross and love as Christ loved

14. Shaping the Curriculum CYM • Living and owning faith – curriculum that helps the living of faith. [mentoring relationships] • Faith in the world (issues) • Discernment (individual/community ownership and action) • Spiritual Disciplines (personal and community worship) • Community life skills • Service and missions • Interpersonal skills including BG and friendship • Developing personal spiritual growth plans • Historical experience and saints

15. Shaping the Curriculum CYM • Curriculum for parents and families • How do I support the marriages of my youth • How do I resource the parents spiritual lives • How do I involve the parents in what the youth are doing • How do enhance positive parent youth interaction • How do I provide parental figures for youth with non Christian youth

16. Shaping the Curriculum CYM • Curriculum for a whole church • How am I increasing this young person’s experience of church • How does is our curricula related to the whole church • How am I preparing young people for transitions in church and life • How am I preparing the church for transitions they may needing to make

17. Shaping the Curriculum CYM Remember • Conversation • Interactive • Variety of learning styles • Guided by principles of whole church • Contextual both locally and globally • Empowerment to interact and think for themselves (esp 14+) • Stretching

18. CURRENT NEEDS REVISED NEEDS GOALS OBJECTIVES EVALUATION METHODS & MATERIALS PROGRAMS & RELATIONSHIPS CURRICULA ORGANIZATION & ADMINISTRATION PRAYER BIBLICAL IMPERATIVES LOVE CONVERSATION