2021-11-08 UNITED STATES

Arco Norte Region promotes meeting on Best Practices in Religious Education

Around 120 people participated in the online Regional Meeting on Best Practices in Religious Education, organized on October 16 by the Evangelization team of Arco Norte Region. Professors of religion and catechesis attended from the provinces of the United States, Central Mexico, Occidental Mexico, Central America, Norandina and Canada.

The objective of this meeting was to create ties between all the Marists of Arco Norte on the subject of catechesis and religious education in schools, as well as to help teachers improve and animate, in community, the experience and mission of accompanying the faith of children and young
people.

During the meeting, there were different presentations of best practices that, throughout the region, teachers have brought to their classrooms:

Alberto RodrĂ­guez, from the USA, spoke about the online tool called Edpuzzle that allows you to edit videos for a more dynamic and interactive class.

Primitivo Villegas, from Occidental Mexico, presented the “Teacher training program in the Human-Christian area”. This program has as methodologies the dialogue focused on life experiences, a learning community and a flipped classroom scheme.

Jonhy Castillo and Ana Paola Frayle, from Central Mexico, spoke about the “Virtual Meeting”.

Constanza Naranjo, from Norandina, presented “National and Zonal Marist Encounters of Schools of Religious Education”, where meeting spaces are fostered between students from Marist institutions in Colombia. The methodology used was based on speakers, forums, reports, life communities and guided visits.

Nohemy CuĂ©llar, from Central America, spoke about the Genially platforms, a software that allows interactive content through the creation of images, infographics, presentations, microsites, catalogs, maps, among others, which can be equipped with interactive effects and animations to use in classes
and have more interaction with students. She also presented Nearpod, a tool that allows the creation of a guided presentation that incorporates a multimodal content and interacts with the audience/students through activities that allow synchronous or asynchronous work. Another tool is Quizizz and the use of google sites to generate a microsite to interact even more closely with the students.

Juan Ignacio Fuentes, from Cruz del Sur (Argentina), invited us to reflect on how those who dedicate themselves to faith education feel about their here and now, within the context of the
pandemic that still continues, what their heart tells them and why it is important that they also have a moment of interiority, to be able to reimagine education in the post-pandemic faith. 

Finally, Br. Daniel Martin, coordinator of the regional evangelization team, thanked the la participaciĂłn de todos los asistentes – including speakers and attendees- and said: “We take today a lot of work that we can do together, rethink the image and importance of a post-pandemic God and dream of forming common themes for our communities, with dialogue on spiritual and emotional intelligence”.

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