ACSI Europe Teacher Training Institutes - The following courses are developed for teachers of grades 1-12. Please contact us by email for pricing and scheduling information.
COURSE Nr 3: Teachers with a Mentor’s Attitude for Student Success
Teaching hours: 30 (45 minutes each)
Short description: The course helps teachers to teach their students with a mentor’s attitude, to prepare them to become mentors of their students, and to improve their students’ achievement and character development.
Course Topics:
- Knowing Our Students
- Character development, social/emotional development, behavior/discipline
- Improving academic success
- Teachers as mentors
COURSE Nr 2: Christian Principles and Strategies for Elementary & High School Education
Teaching hours: 30 (45 minutes each)
Short description: The course helps teachers respond to the challenges of the postmodern era within the framework of Christian school education.
Course Topics:
- A Biblically Integrated Life
- Student Motivation
- Effective Planning of Instruction
- Authentic Teaching and Assessment of Student Learning
- Assessment of Effective Teaching
COURSE Nr 1: Effective Teaching Strategies in the Christian School
Teaching hours: 30 (45 minutes each)
Short description: The course equips teachers with effective teaching strategies based on a Biblical worldview and its implications to learning and teaching.
Course Topics:
- The Impact of the Christian Worldview on Teaching
- Brain-compatible Teaching and Learning
- Individual Differences in Learning
- Cooperative Learning Techniques
- Assessment and Evaluation
ACSI Europe also offers an online course for teachers to develop International Collaborative Projects for their students with the following goals:
- Providing International collaboration opportunites at teacher and student levels (with discounts for ACSI member schools)
- Helping teachers develop meaningful biblical integration in their school subjects to facilitate character and spiritual formation of their students
- Learning how to design effective projects for Project Based Learning
- Developing your students' 21st Century Learning Skills (collaboration, critical thinking, creativity and communication)
Strengthening Critical Thinking
Christian schools are often intentional about teaching worldview and preparing students to engage with competing ideas. Yet the way we structure this engagement can either nurture deep critical thinking or unintentionally foster shallow habits of argument. Here are some practical tools to support critial thinking in the classroom.
Education as a Restoration of Hope
Today we turn to the good news: God’s plan of restoration through Christ. This is not only a personal hope but also a framework for how we think about education, leadership, and the shaping of society. How can we build meaningful outcomes into the process of teaching and learning which truly reflect the hope we have in Christ?
Recognizing the Problem of Sin
The foundational, yet often overlooked, reality is the way sin impacts both teaching and learning. As school leaders, we cannot view education merely as the transfer of knowledge or the development of skills. Education is always moral and spiritual, shaped either by truth that comes from God or by distortions introduced by sin.
ACSI Europe Online Prayer
Join Christian school leaders from across the Europe region for a time of prayer, fellowship and encouragement. This group meets on Zoom the 2nd Thursday each month at 13:00 CET to focus our attention on God's presence and provision for His work through global Christian education.