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A Vision of Faculty/Staff A Vision of Faculty/Staff FormationFormation
Alice I. Hession
Director of SponsorshipXaverian Brothers Sponsored Schools
www.xbss.org
History
Members of Religious Communities – Novitiate and Community Room
No real formation for lay faculty – Osmosis
“To Teach as Jesus Did”
Issues of Faculty Staff Formation Today
Three perspectives on Evangelization
Those up close to us and curious about spirituality but with little religious experience; now they are in our culture—Never before
The faithful who still need life-giving experiences to reconnect with saying yes to God; “The New Evangelization” which is on-going adult faith formation.—Once more with feeling
Those who have all the words but not the Word, don’t get the heart of the Good News, need remediation. Often have been hurt by Christian communities—In need of healing
NCEA – 2000 - Michael Horan, “Evangelizing the School”
Questions for Reflection
What do we know about the faith journeys of faculty/staff?
What relevance is the personal faith journey to the role of teacher/staff member in a Catholic school?
The Courage to Teach Parker Palmer
“Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one’s inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach, I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject and our way of being together. The entanglements I experience in the classroom are no more or no less that the convolutions of my inner life. Viewed from this angle, teaching holds a mirror to my soul. If I am willing to look at that mirror, and not run from what I see, I have a chance to gain self-knowledge – and knowing myself is as crucial to good teaching as knowing my students and my subject.”
Institutional Needs
Catholic Identity Culture of Your School School Legacy Goals and Values
“The Religious Dimension of Education in a Catholic School”
In the 1988 document, it states.. “ From the first moment that a student sets foot in a Catholic school, he or she ought to have the impression of entering a new environment, one illuminated by the light of faith…The Gospel spirit should be evident in a Christian way of thought and life which permeates all facets of the educational program.”
“The Catholic School” # 43
“The achievement of the specific aim of the Catholic school depends not so much on subject matter or methodology as on the people who work there. The extent to which the Christian message is transmitted through education depends to a very great extent on the teachers. The integration of culture and faith is mediated by the other integration of faith and life in the person of the teacher. The nobility of the task to which teachers are called demands that, in imitation of Christ, the only Teacher, they reveal the Christian message not only by word by also by every gesture of their behavior. This is what makes the difference between a school whose education is permeated by the Christian spirit and one in which religion is only regarded as an academic subject like any other.”
Educating Together in Catholic Schools- # 25
“Catholic educators need a ‘formation of the heart’: they need to be led to that encounter with God in Christ which awakens their love and opens their spirits to others, so that their educational commitment becomes a consequence deriving from their faith, a faith which becomes active through love… It is only in this way that they can make their teaching a school of faith, that is to say, a transmission of the Gospel, as required by the educational project of the Catholic school.”
Ronald Rolheiser, The Holy Longing
“Everyone has a spirituality, either a life-giving one or a destructive one… Spirituality is about being integrated or falling apart, about being within community or being lonely, about being in harmony with Mother Earth or being alienated from her. Irrespective of whether or not we let ourselves be consciously shaped by any explicit religious idea, we act in ways that leave us either healthy or unhealthy, loving or bitter. What shapes our actions is our spirituality.” …”It is about what we do with our spirits, our souls.”
Ronald Rolheiser, The Holy Longing
…“A healthy soul must do two things. It must put some fire in our veins; keep us energized, vibrant, full of hope… Second, a healthy soul has to keep us fixed together. It has to give us a sense of who we are, where we came from, where we are going, and what sense there is in all of this.”
Models of Faculty Formation
Two approaches
Formational
Thematic
FormationalConcerned with the faith journey of individual
ThematicConcerned with the values a school holds and the process by which a faculty member comes to accept and espouse those values
Faculty Formation
Dimensions of Formation Programs
Elements of Content for Formation Programs
Models
Applications in School Settings
Dimensions of FormationDimensions of Formation
Elements of Faculty Formation
Message Community Service Prayer & Liturgy The Legacy of your school in
Catholic education Moral Formation Missionary Perspective
Adapted from Our Hearts Were Burning Within US,
US Catholic Bishops, 1999
MessageMessage
- Understanding the basic - Understanding the basic teachings of the teachings of the Catholic faithCatholic faith
- Importance of Scripture- Importance of Scripture
- Social Justice and the - Social Justice and the Dignity of the Human Dignity of the Human PersonPerson
- Current Church - Current Church teachingsteachings
CommunityCommunity
Growth in personal Growth in personal
relationshipsrelationships Celebration of gifts, talents, Celebration of gifts, talents,
and life’s blessingsand life’s blessings Recognition and involvement Recognition and involvement
of familyof family
ServiceService
Personal service to those in Personal service to those in needneed
Social actionSocial action Global callGlobal call
Prayer and Prayer and LiturgyLiturgy
Understanding of role of liturgy in Catholic life
Practices of Catholic piety and devotion
Shared personal prayer Opportunities of
contemplation and meditation
The Unique Tradition The Unique Tradition of Your Schoolof Your School
Mission, Vision, ValuesMission, Vision, Values SpiritualitySpirituality HistoryHistory Diocesan LegacyDiocesan Legacy
Xaverian SpiritXaverian Spirit Mission, Vision, Values, Calls, Mission, Vision, Values, Calls,
Goals, and Criteria of Xaverian Goals, and Criteria of Xaverian Brothers Sponsored SchoolsBrothers Sponsored Schools
Spirituality of Theodore James Spirituality of Theodore James RykenRyken
Fundamental Principles of the Fundamental Principles of the Xaverian BrothersXaverian Brothers
History of Xaverian Educational History of Xaverian Educational MissionMission
Xaverian Brothers Today: Xaverian Brothers Today: Contemplative Stance in the Contemplative Stance in the World and Mission to the Poor World and Mission to the Poor and Marginalizedand Marginalized
Moral FormationMoral Formation
Appreciation of Christian
values and
moral norms
Christian ethics
Clarification of current
religious and moral
questions in light of faith
Missionary PerspectiveMissionary Perspective
EvangelizationEcumenical dialogueGlobal Perspective of Mission
Models of Faculty Formation
Two approaches
Formational
Thematic
FormationalConcerned with the faith journey of individual
ThematicConcerned with the values a school holds and the process by which a faculty member comes to accept and espouse those values
Formational Approaches
Evangelization Model Pre-Evangelization
Contact
Evangelization Connection to People, History, Value
Community Experiences, Ritual
Commitment Service, Responsibility
Formational Approaches
RCIA/Conversion Model Pre-Catechumenate
Initial Formation
Catechumenate Specific Formation
Enlightenment Ritual
Mystagogia Discipleship
Formational ApproachesFormational Approaches
Servant Leadership Servant Leadership ModelModel
AwarenessAwareness TransformationTransformation LeadershipLeadership StewardshipStewardship
Thematic Approaches
Teaching as Ministry ModelTeaching as Ministry Model
The Church’s Call to Ministry in The Church’s Call to Ministry in EducationEducation
Ministry to Whom Ministry to Whom My Gifts and Talents in My Gifts and Talents in
MinistryMinistry Christian CommunityChristian Community
Thematic Approaches
School CultureSchool Culture
SelectingSelecting ConditioningConditioning TrainingTraining Measuring and RewardingMeasuring and Rewarding Shared ValuesShared Values Legends and FolkloreLegends and Folklore Role ModelsRole Models
Culture.com by Neuhauser,
Bender and Stromberg
Thematic Approaches
Legacy ModelLegacy Model
History of those who have gone History of those who have gone
beforebefore Local legacy of Catholic educationLocal legacy of Catholic education Current vision and valuesCurrent vision and values Reflection on missionReflection on mission
Thematic Approaches
Xaverian Legacy ModelXaverian Legacy Model
Theodore James Ryken and the Theodore James Ryken and the
History of the Xaverian BrothersHistory of the Xaverian Brothers The Twelve Xaverian Brothers The Twelve Xaverian Brothers
Sponsored Schools Sponsored Schools Xaverian Brothers Sponsored Xaverian Brothers Sponsored
Schools - Mission, Vision, Values, Schools - Mission, Vision, Values, Calls and GoalsCalls and Goals
The Call to be Missionary The Call to be Missionary “ “Reading the Signs of the Times”Reading the Signs of the Times”
Application to School Settings
Membership - 5-10 members including at least one
administrative contact person
Develop a vision of faculty formation for the school
Coordinate Elements of Faculty Formation
Message, Community, Service, Liturgy & Prayer, Moral Formation, Missionary Perspective, Unique tradition of
your school
Faculty Formation Committees
Sample Structures
1,100 students – 80 faculty
Formation Committee - 8-10
including Assistant Principal
- Retreat
- Social
- Cultural
- Prayer
- Schools for Justice
- Book Discussion
450 Students – 35 Faculty
Formation Committee – 5 including Campus Minister
- Prayer
- Social
- Service
- Retreat
- Mentoring
Sample Structures
650 Students 50 Faculty
Director of Mission - Chaplain to the Faculty
3 Spiritual Directors – outside of school
Retreat – Theme from sessions with
spiritual directors – personal spirituality
Formation Committee - 8-10
- Christian community activities
- Service
Challenges
Formational Approach Unique faith journeys Planners – Background in Spirituality and
Personal Development essential
Thematic Approach Academic Orientation Integration of personal faith and
information
Do you have an operating model, formational or thematic, of Faculty/Staff Formation in your school?
What are the specific goals of your program?
What particular elements have been the focus of your Faculty/Staff Formation efforts in the past few years? Why? What elements have not been included? Why?
How would a model supplement and inform Staff Development and Faculty Supervision processes?
Has/will your Board support the Faculty/Staff Formation effort with sufficient resources?
Questions for Reflection/Discussion
“The Catholic School”
“To commit oneself to working in accordance with the aims of a Catholic school is to make a great act of faith. Only one who has this conviction and accepts Christ’s message, who has a love for and understands today’s young people, and who appreciates what people’s real problems and difficulties are, will be held to contribute with courage and even audacity to the progress of building up a Catholic school.”
A Vision of Faculty/Staff A Vision of Faculty/Staff FormationFormation
Alice I. Hession
Director of SponsorshipXaverian Brothers Sponsored Schools
