Age Group Catechesis Topic 3 - Designing an Age Group Catechesis Plan

Resource

• Guide to Designing Age Group Catechesis 

Design an Age Group Catechesis Plan

The Age Group Catechesis assignment is to select one age group and develop a catechetical program around one or more of your faith maturing goals that you developed in Course #1. Use the ideas you developed in Topic 2. "Envisioning" in your design work. 

The steps outlined in the Guide to Age Group Catechesis include the following. A worksheet is attached. 

1. Audience: Who is your target audience?
2. Goals: What do you want to accomplish? Which faith maturing goal(s) are your focused on?
3. Needs: What are you addressing in the lives of your target audience? Consider the life tasks specific to their stage(s) of life; their interests, concerns, needs, and questions; their milestones and transitions in life; their cultural experiences, traditions, and practices; and their religious and spiritual characteristics and needs/hungers
4. Content: What are the essential topics or themes that need to be incorporated in programming that Is responsive to the lives of your target audience and addresses your faith maturing goal(s)?
5. Personalized: How can you design catechesis that addresses the diverse styles of faith and practice – with active believers, believers, inactive believers, and inactive nonbelievers – with catechetical experiences, programs, and activities personalized to people’s faith journey? For example: experiences targeted to those who need “taste and see,” or “refresher,” or “growing,” or “going deeper” experiences.
6. Programming: Which formats for learning can be utilized for this particular(s) and content (themes or topics)?
7. Scheduling: When will each program format be scheduled? What is the duration for each program?
8. Personnel: Who will lead and implement each program?
9. Resources: What resources are needed to implement each program?