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Teaching at a Catholic school within the Melbourne Archdioceses?
One aspect of being in a degree at Curtin University is the WA-centric and logistical contexts mentioned during the Professional Experience subjects of the degree. It is important to realise that each state is different in their application and decision to deliver religious education and this is managed and guided by the Archdioceses in which your school operated. Independent schools also manage their own learning and teaching programs for Religious Education.
There are lots of supportive resources available but the videos below are both inspiring and they are taken from schools, teachers and student perspectives from across the Melbourne Archdioceses schools.
If you are asking yourself questions about teaching RE in Victoria, click on the videos below.
Why Religious Education?
What does teaching look like in Religious Education?
What does learning look like in Religious Education?
Available to support you
A number of professional associations and regulators exist to support teachers in Catholic Education across both Victoria and the Archdiocese of Melbourne, Sale, Sandhurst and Ballarat.
The Catholic Education Commission of Victoria Ltd (CECV) has responsibility for the education of about 209,800 students within Victoria (2021 census) and is supported by the Catholic education offices of the four dioceses. CECV mainly looks after accreditation of teachers in Catholic school alongside the Victorian Institute of Teaching for teacher registrations in Victoria.
Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools (MACS) is the resource to refer to for all thing regarding your teaching in a Catholic school in Victoria and welcomes graduate and pre-service teachers to engage, learn and grow as they commence their teaching career (MACS, 2023)
The RESource website has been developed by Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools (MACS) to provide online educational support for teachers of Religious Education. This resource hub contains a wealth of information that is continually evolving to equip teachers with relevant, contemporary and engaging content aligned to the five content areas of the RE Curriculum (MACS, 2023).
RESource includes:
- classroom content to support the five content areas: Church and Community; Scripture and Jesus; Prayer, Liturgy and Sacraments; God, Religion and Life and Morality and Justice
- RE Curriculum resources, such as Scope and Sequences, Achievement Standards and the Learning Progression
- Designing for Learning tools, such as the Pedagogy of Encounter Diagram and Teacher Dialogue Tool
- school resources, including the new Slavery Free materials (MACS, 2023).
Through RESource, teachers can feel supported in presenting the good news to their students, as well as assisting them to use online resources in both a purposeful and critical manner. As Pope John Paul II asserted, ‘It is not enough to use the media simply to spread the Christian message and the Church’s authentic teaching. It is also necessary to integrate that message into the new culture created by modern communications. RESource is an effort to do just that in the context of the Australian educational environment (MACS, 2023).
Induction of beginning teachers
Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools (MACS) welcomes and supports the induction of beginning teachers into Catholic school communities. The school community context is crucial in how teachers learn and grow. For graduate teachers, effective induction eases their transition into such learning communities and helps strengthen their impact on students (MACS, 2023).
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