Did you know that some of your membership money goes towards encouraging the teachers from NI who are serving overseas?On behalf of the missionaries, I, as a former missionary, would like to thank you for the way that you did that.When you are overseas, it is always good to get something in your mail box and know that someone at home has remembered you.The magazine and the ACTION newsletter kept me up to date with what was going on at home and in a way helped me to slip back into teaching after being away for 2 years.So thank you for being members of NIACT and for the way that you encourage others.
To those of you who are overseas and receiving this, would you consider joining NIACT when you return and so encourage others who are at home and overseas? If you would like to join, do ask for a membership form or log onto the NIACT website.
Last Updated ( Oct 17, 2008 at 10:05 PM )
Teachers required
Written by Administrator
Oct 17, 2008 at 09:39 PM
It seems the 09/10 school year will see a higher than usual number of teachers at Hillcrest School in Jos Nigeria on home assignment. The school is a former strictly MK school, which at present has a United Nations like student body, totalling around 300. It runs on a North American curriculum and is approved by ACSI as well as Middle States Association in USA .
Some of these positions are for just the coming school year, however some are for longer. If you know a teacher in one of these subjects, would you please ask them to pray about ministering here next year? A teaching credential is preferred but not required.
Here are the openings:
* kindergarten
* grade 1
* grade 3, one year only
* grade 4
* middle school social studies, one year only
* high school math, one year only
* high school English
* middle school/high school Bible
* middle school/high school home economics, one year only
* all school PE
* school chaplain
* hostel parent
* maintenance
* computer technician
If anyone is interested you can contact the SIM office in Belfast (
) or visit the Hillcrest website www.hillcrestschool.net.
Don't even think about it
Written by Administrator
Oct 17, 2008 at 09:30 PM
Mid September saw the resignation of the Royal Society’s director of education, Professor Michael Reiss. His crime? He suggested that teachers should be respectful to creationist students and not ridicule their views. Hardly revolutionary as advice to teachers and entirely consistent with the Royal Society’s own policies. However, because Reiss was misreported in some papers as advocating teaching creationism in science classrooms, a capital offence in these days of fundamentalist atheism, he has had to go.
Despite originally supporting him, the Royal Society defends his resignation on the grounds that his speech was open to mis-interpretation. Not to anyone who bothered to get their facts right! Reiss, in fact, was advising on how to better engage students in order to persuade them of the merits of evolution. As Melanie Phillips’s column in the Spectator put it, this was a “Secular Inquisition at the Royal Society”.
NIACT is not a lobby group and the views of members differ on many subjects. However, we do care enough to want to offer a reasoned and professional Christian perspective when responses are invited.
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