Sentences with phrase «school chaplain»

The theme will be relationships with Martin and Mel Stand, youth workers and school chaplains in Darlington Area Churches Youth Ministry.

Similarly, school chaplains report that they are frequently the only religious authority figure families in that school will know.

I'm currently working on an application to become a high school chaplain and with the recent media attention to the confessional in Ireland (excellent conversation over at iMonk on that earlier this week BTW) and also Australia (where I'm hoping to be working) I've been working through some concerns over my potential role.

We place candidates in a wide spectrum of roles, including religious studies teacher, middle school chaplain, theology teacher, ethics teacher, and upper school Judaic studies teacher, among others.

Some school chaplains or diocesan youth centres have tried hard to move towards better and more catechetical music for worship but the danger remains that this is of transient appeal and can become quickly outdated and a source of amusement unlike the perennial sacred music of the Church which was actually mandated by Vatican II.

It highlights the crucial role of the school chaplain: to be a presence of faith.

In many ways, the school chaplain or the religion teacher is doing much of what the church should be doing with young people — namely, taking them seriously, reflecting with them on their moral priorities, sometime challenging their values, offering them a greater perspective in which to deal with their pain, their hopes, their questioning.

In my days as a school chaplain I remember a shocked English teacher reporting: «Do you know that today I asked my sophomores if they knew who Job was, and only one student raised her hand?»

«Some of these socially adept people don't even know how to talk to a person in my profession,» says one school chaplain.

In my own local Catholic Sixth Form College, for instance, the students consistently challenge their school chaplain with the claim that «science», along with suffering, contradict the whole idea of God.

One of the more important purposes of a school chaplain, IMO, is to be an adult, perhaps the only adult in the kids lives, who isn't asking the kids to perform / become better / grow up / score well / study hard / etc.

Staff like Guidance Counsellors or School Chaplains can work with students and parents to help them develop and practice effective strategies to address minor behaviour from peers.

CHAT has enabled us to identify priorities after running a whole school review of current programs and processes with all stakeholders such as the school chaplain, class teachers, deputies and school psychologists.

Since Term 3 of 2012, Ruth has been working as a School Chaplain, where she has the fantastic opportunity to support the welfare of students, staff and the school community within her care.

In addition, Elanora State Primary School has assigned fulltime Student Wellbeing Teachers and a School Chaplain to support the social and emotional wellbeing of its students and provide counselling, if necessary, to children and their families.

In 2007 Janina joined YouthCARE in WA to work as a school chaplain, and has since obtained a Diploma of Youth Work.

One of the items commented favourably on in the survey was the employment of the school chaplain in 2012, through the National School Chaplain and Student Welfare Program.

Screening for the adolescent at risk Practical, no - nonsense strategies for welfare staff, year level co-ordinators, house masters, school chaplains and other welfare staff.