What makes a great Bible school? Is it the curriculum? What about the facilities? Maybe the quality of the students? All of those do make a Bible school great if you have a qualified faculty. Our teaching staff needs to be strong in both character and competence. Someone has said that we teach what we know; we reproduce what we are.

One of the major components or objectives of GATS is to provide continuous education opportunities to our faculty through GATS implemented studies.

The basic course, our first step to faculty education, is under development right now. It will consist of eighteen to twenty-four lessons. Each of the lessons will take about two hours teaching and interaction time. We will provide the materials in various formats and types of media. Here on the Advancement page we intend providing the lessons in print: via Word and Adobe Acrobat; along with suitable power points.

Six of these lessons will be available in English by the end of 2007. We will post them to this site as they become available.

Faculty education will be made available onsite in our GATS member nations and schools. They can be taught in clusters (nations that are close to each other coming together for an annual faculty education week); or on a sub-regional and regional basis.

Lessons include lecture, interaction, and assignment components. Translation is being planned for Spanish, French, and other major languages.

We also plan to make the lessons available as distance education e-lessons (available online). These lessons will be interactive in nature using the Knowledge Presenter technology. We will also provide online testing.

For questions or more information e-mail us at advance@gatsonline.org or gats@upci.org . We have also provided a downloadable document concerning the basic faculty education course; and a general one detailing other possibilities and answering frequently asked questions.

GATS. It's not just for the students. It's also for the faculty. Together we are advancing toward ministerial excellence.

Downloads (right click and save target as)	PDF	Word	PPT	Other Languages
Faculty Education and GATS
GATS and The Basic Faculty Development Course
Advance Educators Teacher and Core Values				Spanish PDF Spanish Doc French PDF French Doc
Discovering Core Values				Spanish PDF Spanish Doc Portuguese PDF Portuguese Doc French PDF French Doc
The Four Core Values Handout				Portuguese PDF Portuguese Doc
Advance Educators Teacher and Family				Spanish PDF Spanish Doc Portuguese PDF Portuguese Doc French PDF French Doc
Advance Educators Teacher and Mentoring				Spanish PDF Spanish Doc Portuguese PDF Portuguese Doc
Advance Educators Teacher and Priorities				Spanish PDF Spanish Doc Portuguese PDF Portuguese Doc
Advance Educators Teacher and Creative Impact				Spanish PDF Spanish Doc Portuguese PDF Portuguese Doc
Advance Educators Teacher and Excellence				Spanish PDF Spanish Doc Portuguese PDF Portuguese Doc French PDF French Doc
Advance Educators Teacher and His Responsibility	Quiz:	Quiz:		Spanish PDF Spanish Doc Portuguese PDF Portuguese Doc Spanish Quiz PDF Spanish Quiz Doc Portuguese Quiz PDF Portuguese Quiz Doc
Advance Educators Teacher and Overcoming Temptation				Portuguese PDF Portuguese Doc
Advance Educators Teacher and Lesson Preparation				Spanish PDF Spanish Doc Portuguese PDF Portuguese Doc
Advance Educators 1				Spanish Doc
Advance Educators Teachers and Critical Thinking				Spanish PDF Spanish Doc
Advance Educators Teacher and the Big Picture				Spanish PDF Spanish Doc
Advance Educators Thinking, Learning, and Teaching Styles				Spanish PDF Spanish Doc
Advance Educators Teacher and Course Planning				Spanish PDF Spanish Doc
Three Categories of Learning				Spanish Doc
Advance Educators Teacher and Motivation