Teacher Training & Resources

Teaching and Facilitating

The care and nurture of RE teachers and other volunteers is essential!

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Stop Recruiting, Start Retaining: Creating a Culture of Volunteer Sustainability

By Laura Beth Brown

From LeaderLab
<p>Volunteer considerations and strategies that will help to create a culture of generosity in your congregation or organization and therefore, sustainability.</p>

Volunteer Sustainability

Developing inclusive and invitational facilitation skills is essential for ARAOMC curricula, but the same skills can make any learning experience transformational.

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Facilitation for TransformationFor Anti-Racism/Anti-Oppression/Multicultural Curricula and Small Groups

From LeaderLab
<p>This course is designed to help facilitators of Anti-Racism/Anti-Oppression/Multicultural curricula and groups develop skills to facilitate in a way that decreases harm and promotes transformation.</p>

Facilitation for Transformation

More UUA Resources for Teachers and Facilitators

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Tools to Support and Sustain Religious Education Volunteers

By Tracey L. Hurd

From RE-sources
<p>Teaching RE can be an opportunity for faith development, deeper engagement, and shared ministry with the proper tools and support.</p>

Supporting RE Volunteers

Sparks Program Logo: marbled blue chalice with yellow spiral with sparks in it for the flame. Reads Sparks: Professional Development for Ministries of Faith Engagement

Sparks Program: Professional Development for Ministries of Faith Engagement

<p>The Sparks Program provides Unitarian Universalist (UU) Religious Educators a learning community within which they can easily access applicable skills and tools. The program offers fourteen differently-themed modules, all available in an online format with some being offered…</p>

Sparks Program