About 1,000 teachers from seven states are expected at the event. We want to make it practical stuff they can use when they go back to the classroom on Monday. Many seminars discuss how to integrate Biblical principles and classroom learning, she said. But many offer hands-on help for teaching skills and management, such as setting up morning routines in a school or classroom or helping students with learning disabilities such as dyslexia. Flynn and Patton came up with their character-education curriculum as part of work toward master's degrees at Wichita State University.
Students study one each month, corresponding to the nine months of school.
Students strive to display love toward others even in cases when someone has disappointed or hurt them and to display joy even on days that seem to go from bad to worse, Patton said. A few colleges will be among the 43 vendors at the convention, to recruit high school seniors and teachers for graduate work. Other vendors include publishers and sellers, software designers and distributors, and uniform and classroom supply dealers. In addition to the seminars, teachers will hear two keynote speakers and four guest speakers. Ellen Lowrie Black, vice president of Equip, a Georgia firm that develops curricula, will speak Friday on the lifelong implications of Christian education.