Committee

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Committee

• Committee is comprised of Chris Huang, Hong Mei
  Dong, Victor Sung, and Eric Chua
• We come together every few months to discuss
  education issues.
• Any funds required or any changes in the
  education are communicated and/or approved by the
  council.

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Volunteers

• Areas Needs
• Sunday School Teachers
• Activity Day Helpers
• Road Trips/Drivers
• Children Sermons!

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Appropriate behavior

• Support your teachers.
• Respect other people.
• Set boundaries for the children before Childrens
  Sermon, Sunday School, and activities. Set an
  expectation.
• Always help to clean up.
• Take care of church property.

Chris Huang This is something that we have not
talked about. How do parents support teachers if
teachers never give them feedback? What is the
effective channel of communicating with parents?
Should we institute a quarterly report or
evaluation? The easy way out of this is simply
to talk about what behavior we expect from kids.
I really discourage talking about punishment.
What do want parents to do, anyway? Parents have
a responsibility to discuss with the kids what is
correct behavior. Feed back can be one on one
but this is time consuming. Parent teacher
meetings is the only realistic way right now. If
there is an issue, teachers should talk to
parents.
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Curriculum

• Pk - 8th - Walk with Me Curriculum material
  used by the CRC
• High School Children Heidelberg Catechism (FAQ
  of Christian Faith) and Relationship Series from
  CRC
• Friday Series
• Bible study material on Friday nights for 7th
  graders and under.
• Malichi Bible study/small group series for High
  School aged youth.
• Acts and crafts for younger kids.
• Movie night, once per month

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Educational Areas

• Sunday School
• Biblical training focus
• Preaching
• Friday Nights
• Social/relationships focus
• Music focus
• Practical Biblical Training focus
• Saturday Outings
• Social/Relationship focus

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Our Educational Goals

• Teach our children the word of God (To accept
  Christ as their personal savior)
• Equip our children for reaching out to their
  peers
• Develop Christian characters
• Serve in Church
• Serve in communities
• Develop social abilities
• Provide enjoyable experiences
• Other?

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Understanding Our Children

• As children age their interest changes
• Our behavior must change as children change
• Model correct behavior to help children learn
• Social aspects change as children get older
  respect for the teacher changes. The behavior of
  teachers need to change through time.

Chris This slide is very vague. What is the
purpose of this slide? I don't think that we'd
like to use "discipline" in this context. It
sounds like that teachers are obsessed with
"disciplining" kids in Sunday school. What we
use is more of behavior shaping, not discipline
in the sense of spanking or time out, I
think. Acknowledging that we need to try to
understand our children. The children will
respond to us more in a positive way.
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Teacher Training

• Other current teachers will train new teachers
• Current material has teacher training included.
• Areas of training
• Knowing your students behavior shaping
• How to use the teaching materials

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Music

• Youth-oriented music worship
• Contemporary Christian music
• Deeper spiritual relationship with Lord
• Medium to reach out to unchurched youth
• Develop God-given musical talents for church-wide
  service
• Special Events and Sunday Service - Youth lead
  worship

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Facility-Basement

• Environment for learning
• Descriptive and mnemonic material on the walls
• Clean and organized
• Pleasant/decorated
• Childrens area requires changes
• All ideas are welcomed

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Character Development

• How do we help develop good character
• Model Good Behavior
• Good Teacher Material
• Repetition
• Accountability
• Experience
• Prayer

Chris Huang Do you really mean it testing? I
think that we have lacked in establishing a
uniform channel of communication. Each teacher
needs to follow the guideline. Id be satisfied
if Sunday school talks to parents
more. Accountability is just a way to get feed
back and readjust. Talking to parents if fine.
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Victor

• Victor Background
• Chinese Church Experience
• Current Studies
• Where I came from?
• Victor Future Plans
• Educational Plans
• Job Plans

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Theme

• Themes help to focus the education
• Themes help the children think about what they
  are learning
• This years theme The L-Effect

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Schedule of Activities

• 9/23, Sat.- Canoe/fishing trip
• 10/8, Sun - Sports/kite at the point
• 10/21 - Apple orchard/pumpkin patch
• 11/18 -bowling
• TBD Fall church garden clean up
• TBD Basement spruce up

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Parental Goals

• What do you expect your children to learn in
  attending HPCRC youth programs?
• Do you foster that same belief/value system at
  home for the rest of the week?
• What life-long goals do you, as Christian
  parents, hope your children to achieve?
• How can HPCRC youth ministry partner with you in
  fortifying your childrens faith education?
• Do parents know what they what their kids to be
  like?
• What are the traits you want to see in your
  children?
• What does a successful child look like?

Chris Huang Be realistic. We are not running an
educational institution. We need to re-define
parental goals in the spiritual, faith-based
framework. This is good.
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Shared Responsibility

• Parents as teachers (in Sunday school, at home).
• Support and communicate with teachers. (Discuss
  what you like and suggest changes.)
• Be ready for difficulties/Expect bumps in the
  road (e.g. teenage years, relationship issues)
• Grow with the children. (Talk to kids about God)

Chris Huang You really meant parents
responsibilities in Sunday school/religious
education only, right? Need to be more specific.
For example, support teachers, how? Made
additions