Competences

a. Advise SMT and Pastoral Team members on how a sense of community can be fostered among students, both in class during the CRE class, and through other school and extra-curricular activities;

b. Collaborate with SMT and Pastoral Team members on how to successfully implement and assess the effectiveness of such activities;

c. Guide students in understanding and appreciating the importance and practical everyday life implications of a sense of community in their own lives;

d. Ensure that students would have had opportunities to discuss and experience through different activities the love of God for human beings that is expressed and celebrated in community;

e. Create the appropriate learning climate that helps and motivates students come up with different ways and initiatives that can strengthen a sense of community among themselves as a classroom, and in the other groups and communities they form a part of.

Knowledge 

a. Define what is meant by the word ‘community’ and the term ‘sense of community’;

b. Identify the different groups and communities they are a part of;

c. Identify different faith communities and religious groups that exist in Malta;

d. List the different characteristics of such groups and communities;

e. Determine what the role of authentic leadership and authority in Christian Churches is, particularly in the Catholic Church;

f. Describe the vision and mission of two communities, and their contribution to society;

g. Define sectarianism and fundamentalism, and describe how they affect one’s values and attitudes.

Skills

a. Show their understanding of why and how God’s love is celebrated in communities of faith in a broad variety of ways;

b. Demonstrate how groups and communities, including religious communities, can have a positively significant impact people’s lives, and on Christian Churches, especially the Catholic Church;

c. Apply their appreciation of the value of religious communities to an understanding of what the Catholic Church should really mean to every Catholic;

d. Apply their understanding of the role and contribution of specific communities to the Church, to how they could fit in and contribute themselves to the Church and to society through one or more of these groups / communities;

e. Create different educational activities and initiatives through which students can explore God’s and care love for them in the communities they form part of;

f. Demonstrate through practical examples how authentic leadership and authority are related in Christian Churches, especially in the Catholic Church;

g. Use their understanding of sectarianism and fundamentalism to bring forth practical examples of how these affect people’s lives, the structures and members of the Church, and society in general.