Overview
Junior High has historically been the time when educators teach about the vocations of priesthood and the religious life. It is a time when students are mature enough to ask questions about their future and explore their inclinations without being as inhibited by the social pressures of adolescence and junior high. Though originally developed for sixth graders, this curriculum has been taught with great success at the seventh and eighth grade levels as well. Some 9th grade teachers have also expressed an interest in using it in their classrooms.
The What Is My Vocation curriculum consists of 15 lessons that discuss such topics as:
• Christian Discipleship
• The importance of Prayer
• Marriage
• Single Life
• Priesthood
• Life in the Seminary
• Religious Sisters, Brothers, and Priests
The goal of this vocation curriculum is to engage the imagination of each student with the material presented in order to help them to explore the possibilities of all vocations: marriage, single, priest, and religious life. What Is My Vocation attempts to accomplish this by offering substantial material that is discussed by the teacher and students. As well students are to create a “Journal” in which daily questions are reflected with their thoughts written within.
The Student Edition has been printed and is available for purchase. You may print our an order form from this web site.
The Teacher Edition is currently being worked on. It will be ready for shipping by June 2006. This user friendly edition will have numerous teaching tips, supplemental material, additional classroom activities as well as a unit planner and appendix with teaching aids. Check out the sample from the Teacher Edition – but watch there are a couple typos; it is a work in progress.
FUTURE of Web Page: www.whatismyvocation.com
Our web site www.whatismyvocation.com is presently only promoting our vocation curriculum. It will be “transformed” in the summer of 2006 (this coming summer) into an excellent tool for teaching the What Is My Vocation curriculum.
The web page will include: supplemental teaching material, classroom activities, down loadable teaching visual aids, bulletin board decorations with links to other vocation teaching resources.
It will also feature audio and video of sisters, brothers, priests and seminarians speaking about vocations. Hopefully in the future, it will have Power Point Presentations that teachers can use to help teach the lessons in the curriculum.
FUTURE of Religious Education Version:
With the help of the Lord, we hope to create a religious education version of this vocation curriculum. The goal would be to have a printed version by Spring of 2007. This version would be substantial in content but with fewer lessons in order to better fit into a religious education class schedule.
D.R.E.s are welcome to explore the use of this present version in part or total as it may fit into their religious education classes. I would appreciate input from D.R.E.s on how the present curriculum could be adjusted and made to fit better the expectations and goals for religious education.