What You'll Get with this Workshop
- 6 45-Minute Sessions
- Explore teaching strategies with a master teacher
- Classroom-ready lesson plans
- Instant, easy access — no expiration!
- Receive a professional development certificate
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Workshop Overview
In these six life-transforming sessions, Father Thomas F. Dailey, O.S.F.S. explains in clear and practical language what spirituality truly means for teachers, and how to avoid and combat the temptations that can run counter to this spirituality. You'll learn how you can more effectively serve as a witness to Christ in the classroom, and the practical steps you can take now to deepen your own relationship with Christ.
Each 30-minute session with Fr. Dailey is followed by a short presentation by Master Teacher Jose Gonzalez, who uses his decade of classroom experience to bring immediate, practical suggestions for applying your new knowledge in the classroom.
You will also receive an electronic copy of The Beatitudes Teacher's Guide, which features 13 ready-to-use lesson plans on the Beatitudes. By using these lessons, you will help your students come to see that Jesus Christ is the only way to personal freedom, happiness, and holiness.
Each self-contained lesson is teacher-written, classroom-tested, and scholar-reviewed, and includes background readings, student homework, classroom activities, games, role plays, and more. Lessons are available for both elementary and high school classrooms.
By completing this course, you and your teachers will learn:
By completing this course, you will learn:
- What the Gospels teach us about handling and prioritizing our busy teacher schedules
- What "spiritality" truly is, and how to help your students grow in their own spirituality and holiness
- Why the "Little Virtues" matter, and how to practice them every day
- How to beyond teaching your students about Jesus to helping them know and love Him
- The most common temptations and stumbling blocks teachers face, and how to combat them
- How you can show your students the importance of spirituality, starting today
- Why teachers are called to a higher spiritual standard, and how to meet that standard.
Professional Development Certificate: You may request your certificate by visiting this link.
Sophia Institute for Teachers is an independent, non-profit organization. Participants at our programs receive certificates stating the number of hours at each workshop and as proof of attendance. Each diocese will determine if/how these hours can be applied toward on-going teacher or catechist certification requirements. If you need official verification that attendance at our program will satisfy your requirements, please check with your principal and/or the appropriate person in your diocese.
Workshop Sessions
Spirituality for Teachers
Teaching as Vocation
Being Inspired and Uplifted
Doing the Little Virtues
Avoiding the Big Temptations
The Never-Ending Need to Know
Your Presenters
Jose Gonzalez joined the team at Sophia Institute for Teachers in 2014 after more than 10 years as a Catholic high school teacher. In addition to teaching, Jose has experience working in parish and diocesan ministry. Jose has been leading Workshops in over 60 dioceses for more than 8 years, and contributes regularly to our teacher's guides and digital instructional resources. He has a BA in theology with a concentration in religious education from Franciscan University of Steubenville, and an MA in evangelization and catechesis from the Augustine Institute. Jose and his wife, Mary Beth, have four children.
Fr. Thomas Dailey holds the John Cardinal Foley Chair of Homiletics and Social Communications at Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. He first professed vows in the religious congregation of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales (O.S.F.S.) in 1980 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1987. He earned his doctoral degree in Biblical Theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University (Rome) and is a member of the Academy of Catholic Theology. He has written, edited or translated ten books and authored more than sixty-five contributions in a variety of scholarly and pastoral publications. His commentaries have been featured in news outlets and on digital media nationwide. Among other professional awards, he has been selected four times for inclusion in the list of Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers.
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