National Conference for Christian Teachers and Teaching Assistants 2008

Life in all its fullness

Christian perspectives on wholeness and wellbeing

19-21 September 2008

This conference offers busy Christian teachers and teaching assistants time to stop, think and reflect. Delegates will be invited to consider how our understanding of the wholeness of the person, of life and of Gods world influence both the task of teaching and the promotion of pupil and staff wellbeing.

Ideas of wholeness, shalom and wellbeing abound in the Bible as descriptions of the purposes God has for the world he has made and the people he has made in his image. They provide us with aims which can make teaching meaningful for us and those among whom we teach and learn.

Teaching for wholeness includes teaching for a whole perspective on Gods world, the wholeness of our personal being and the wholeness of life in all its phases and kinds of activity.

Teaching for wholeness counters two potential dehumanising trends:

Failure to bring curriculum subjects together into relation with one another, separating head from heart, private from public and sacred from secular.
Over emphasising a single aspect of education, e.g. attainment vs personal development, achieving economic well being.

A Christian approach in the classroom promotes a biblical balance in all of this.

Speakers include:

John Shortt
Travelling Secretary for the European Educators Christian Association (EurECA) and editor of the Journal of Education and Christian Belief. Formerly he has been a teacher, then Head of Research at Stapleford Centre and Director of the Charis Project.
Simon Monaghan
Project Officer, The International Centre for Reconciliation, Coventry Cathedral

Organised by the Association of Christian Teachers, Scripture Union, The Stapleford Centre and The Independent Schools Christian Alliance.

19th -21st September 2008, Britannia Hotel, , Coventry

Registration

Friday 19th September from 5.00pm with dinner at 7.30pm. The Conference will conclude on Sunday 21st September at 1.00pm

Cost

Single on-suite room £170, shared on-suite twin room £160 per person (non-returnable deposit of £35 payable on booking)

Daily delegate conference rate £75

Balance payable four weeks before the conference. Please note there will be a surcharge of £15 per delegate on bookings after 25th August.

The conference will include practical workshops

10% discount for Learning Assistants, NQT's and Student Teachers

For online booking please go to our bookings website at
www.stapleford-centre.org/signups and go to conferences.

Funding

For previous conferences a number of delegates were funded from their school CPD/INSET budget. Enquire within your school. Other delegates received financial support from their church. A letter to church leaders requesting support is available from The Stapleford Centre on request. Bursaries are available to cover part or the whole cost of the conference. Contact David Morton, Director at The Stapleford Centre.