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Online Learning with Youth Ministry Access
How online learning can help you train your adult and youth leaders
- Use online learning to prepare adult and youth team members for leadership roles.
- Online learning is available to the adult and youth leaders in your faith community—parish, high school, or youth-serving agency.
- Since you have access to all the sessions, you can create a way to prepare new leaders and help them feel confident in their role.
- All of your leaders can use the same training session in the same time period. This gives you the chance to say, “This week, let’s all complete the session on building community; we can discuss our learnings for a few minutes prior to our next youth meeting.” Or, “We can meet at the coffee shop and talk about what we learned—I’m buying!”
Benefits to online learning
- Each season there will be new learning sessions; you will continue to have access to all sessions.
- The learning sessions may be completed in 45 minutes to one hour.
- At the completion of the session, leaders can print out a certificate verifying their participation.
- Learning can be completed on the participant’s schedule—which is a great advantage over gathered training.
- Leaders can also specialize by topic: “For the upcoming retreat, Joe is leading prayer, Maria is leading the teaching, and Angela is leading community building. Let’s each go online and use the learning session that relates to our role.”
- Online learning sessions may also be done as part of gathered training. As part of a meeting, you can walk your team through a session using a projector or widescreen TV (Internet access necessary at the site).
Current and upcoming topics in online learning
Youth Ministry
- Building Assets—Helping All Youth Grow Up Healthy
- Building Community
- Chaperones—Essential Support for Young People
- Creating Meaningful Prayer Experiences
- Evangelization
- Introduction to Catholic Youth Ministry
- Preparing Meaningful Service Opportunities
- Relating with Youth
- Service Learning using the Pastoral Circle Process
Church
- Advent—Cycle A
- Advent—Cycle B
- Advent—Cycle C (Fall 2006)
- All Saints and All Souls (Fall 2006)
- Baptism (Summer 2007)
- Confirmation
- Eucharist
- Introduction to the Church Year
- Introduction to the Sacraments
- Lent—Cycle A
- Lent—Cycle B
- Lent—Cycle C (Winter 2007)
- Pentecost (Spring 2007)
- Reconciliation
How online learning works
The process of online learning includes these four movements:
- Engage: You are invited to explore your experience and understanding of the topic through an activity such as a story, a quiz, or a reflection tool.
- Reflect: You are invited to reflect upon your experience and understanding of the topic.
- Explore: This is the heart of the learning model; here you connect your experience and understanding with the wisdom of the Church and current knowledge of the topic.
- Apply: Here you will be given ideas and resources to apply and integrate your learning to your life and to your ministry, including printed and online resources.
These sessions are designed to make learning fun and to help you identify more ways to learn and grow in the topic. Learners have the opportunity to read, think about, and express what they are thinking on the topic.
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