Ontario Institute For Studies in Education University of Toronto with Bat Kol Institute, Jerusalem

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Ontario Institute For Studies in
EducationUniversity of Torontowith Bat Kol
Institute, Jerusalem

• Additional Qualification Courses
• Religious Education
• Parts 1, 2 3
• in Israel
• July 6 -18, 2009
• For More Information contact
• Patricia OReilly at
• poreilly_at_oise.utoronto.ca

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• The OISE Religious Education AQ Parts 1, 2,
  and 3 program in Israel combines an additional
  qualifications course with the opportunity to
  spend time in the Holy Land .

Learn the Christian story in the place where it
began!
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The Land, The People, The BookKnowing our
Story________________________

• Reflections on the Paradigm Shift Affecting
  Catholic Education in Ontario - A Work in
  Progress
• February 2008
• James T. Mulligan, CSC

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• Isolate any Catholic school your own school or
  the school you most identify with.
• Think of that school as a free-standing entity
  unto itself. No Catholic school board. No
  external faith resources. It is entirely on its
  own.
• The school must survive as a Catholic school in a
  very secular culture on its own.

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And now the critical questions.

• Are there a sufficient number of Catholic
  educators in that school who know the Catholic
  Christian story?
• Is there a core group of Catholic educators who
  see their work as living out their baptismal
  commitment and are be able to tell that story,
  sharing their faith with students?

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Mulligan s Challenge To Get On With Searching
For the Soul of Catholic Education

• Will this core group be respected enough and
  accepted in order to be able to shape the
  direction and the vision of education of that
  Catholic school so that their school continues to
  be and to grow as a Catholic school?

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And She Gave Birth
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This Course will

• extend the depth and breadth of the candidates
  understanding of sacred Scriptures and Church
  Tradition as it informs our Catholic faith story
• study the Catholic story and know it
  sufficiently to share it with their Catholic
  students
• follow the Religious Education Guidelines Parts
  1, 2, 3 as prescribed by The Ontario College of
  Teachers and approved by the Archdiocese of
  Toronto

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Nostra Aetate In Our Time Declaration on the
Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian
Religions.Second Vatican CouncilOctober 28, 1965

• Acknowledges what might have been lost to its
  own self-understanding by misreading or ignoring
  the culture and tradition that gave it life
• Recognizes the roots of Christianity within
  Judaism

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Pope John Paul llWhoever meets Jesus Christ,
meets Judaism. Mainz,Nov.17,1980

• The Pope placed a piece of paper on which a
  prayer was written between
• the stones of the Western Wall of the Temple
  Mount in Jerusalem on 26 March 2000

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Who Takes This Course?

• Teachers who want to
• participate in a unique professional development
  opportunity,
• experience their faith in a new way ,
• learn the Catholic Christian story
• earn a Religious Education Additional
  Qualification,
• Parts 1, 2 or 3

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Who else can apply?

• Recent graduates from Faculties of Education
  are welcome
• Auditors are accepted if space is available

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Course Expectations

• Compulsory pre-course readings
• Preparatory classes and orientation sessions
  (flexibility for out of town participants)
• Written Assignment and Final Evaluation

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Cost -3,000 (tentative to fuel surcharge) plus
OISE tuition of 875.00

• Cost includes return flights from Toronto to Tel
  Aviv, transfers, accommodation (twin share
  basis), hotel and government taxes, two meals
  daily, land transportation, entrance fees at site
  visits, professors, guest speakers and course
  materials
• Cost excludes lunches, alcohol, gratuities,
  personal expenses

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Accommodation

• Accommodation will be at Ecco Homo convent in
  the Old City of Jerusalem and on a Kibbutz in
  Galilee
• Private bath twin share, 3
• Single supplement 500.00

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Information Meeting

• Wednesday December 3rd, 2008
• Time 700 p.m.
• OISE-252 Bloor St. West
• Room 5-280

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How to Apply?

• The application form is online at
  www.oise.utoronto.ca/conted
• Download application (applications cannot be
  submitted online .
• Application deadline is January 15, 2009
• (applications after the deadline will only be
  accepted if space is available)

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Submit Application

• Send the completed application form with a
  deposit cheque for 100.00 payable to OISE
  Israel Summer AQ Course to
• Continuing Education Israel program
• Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
• 252 Bloor St. W, Suite 5-103
• Toronto, On. M5S 1V6

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Payment Schedule

• The OISE tuition is due when summer AQ
  registration opens in April 2009
• There will be two trip payments March 1, and May
  1, 2009
• Full refund will be given if the course is
  cancelled

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Other Expenses

• Participants will be required to buy out of
  country medical insurance if they do not have
  coverage. (Proof of coverage must be submitted)
• A passport valid until January 1, 1010 is required

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• The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
  and the organizers will not accept any
  responsibility for any person taking part in all
  or any part of this program. Payment of a
  deposit by an intending participant is deemed to
  be full acceptance of these conditions.

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For More Information

• Bat Kol Institute
• www.batkol.info
• Patricia OReilly
• poreilly_at_oise.utoronto.ca