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What does it mean to be a Catholic teacher ? We teach math and spelling, science and geography. But as Catholic teachers, we bring to these subjects a values-based lens. In all that we do, we promote values like fairness, compassion, respect, and concern for social justice and the environment.
“An excellent Catholic teacher expresses and develops a living Catholic vision of the world.” “An excellent Catholic teacher permeates faith and wisdom through pedagogy and curricular content.” “An excellent Catholic teacher witnesses to others a life lived in relationship with Jesus Christ.”
This year, during Catholic Schools Week, the Office of Schools hosted an essay contest to hear from students how their lives have been impacted by attending a Catholic school. The below essays were selected as the top five!
- Introduction
- I. The Teacher and Mission of Catholic Education
- II. The Teacher and Vocation
- III. The Teacher and Faith Formation
- IV. The Teacher and Lived Witness
- V. The Teacher and Catholic Culture
- Conclusion
In recent years, efforts to strengthen the Catholic identity of schools have focused Church guidance on the important fact that all teachers—lay, clerical, or religious—have an essential function in Catholic education as role models of the faith, in both word and deed. A review of these Church teachings provides an understanding of the importance o...
The mission of Catholic education is articulated by the Church and her magisterial documents. Catholic educators need to understand, appreciate, and fully support this mission, because its fulfillment depends on them. The more teachers reflect upon this mission, the more powerful protagonists they will be in leading schools to success. Catholic edu...
The Catholic teacher’s call to participate in the saving mission of the Church and to assist in the building of the Body of Christ is more than a profession. It’s a vocation. All teachers in Catholic education agree to work for the sanctification of the world and to pursue and communicate truth wherever it might lie. The Catholic educator possesses...
The Catholic Church recognizes its dependence on teachers to fulfill the goals and programs of Catholic education. Forming students in faith is one of its most critical goals. Such formation is not a part of most teacher training programs. Therefore, it is essential for Catholic school teachers to be aware that they have this responsibility (no mat...
The Church relies on teachers to fulfill the mission of Catholic education and serve the complex and varied needs of students entrusted to their care. In a special way, teachers make Christ and His Church present and operative in the life of students. Most significantly by their lived witness, teachers accomplish the school’s primary religious miss...
The Catholic educator aims at transmitting a specifically Catholic culture that guides the student by word and example so they can see and experience a complete synthesis of culture and faith, as well as of faith and life. All subjects in Catholic education are integrated and explored in a Christian worldview and from a Christian concept of the hum...
The Church’s guidance to her teachers conveys the immense responsibility they assume in the ministry of Catholic education. In addition to professional qualifications, a Catholic school teacher must understand and commit to the Church and be a “living mirror” of Christ by modeling a life inspired by the Gospel. In contemporary society, the challeng...
What is a Teacher? While countless things can be said about the endless tasks of each and every one of our Catholic school teachers, at the heart of each of these tasks is the extraordinary calling to bear witness to Christ everyday.
Nov 5, 2010 · “Being an educator means having joy in one’s heart and communicating it to everyone so as to make life good and beautiful; it means providing reasons and goals for life’s journey, presenting the beauty of the person of Jesus and making people love Him, His lifestyle, His freedom. …
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Feb 20, 2002 · The Catholic teacher/scholar, by dedicating his intelligence to Christ, is inspired by the belief that the primary condition for attaining truth is humility and the obedience of faith, which he regards not as a restriction on intellectual freedom but as a wonderful, divine gift opening the human mind to entire realm of truth otherwise ...
