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Personally, the biggest challenge for me is that I only have the students for 75 minutes per week. In a regular classroom setting, it's much easier to pick up where you left off. When you've gone a week or more without seeing your students, it becomes difficult to keep the "flow" of learning going.
Another challenge is that some of the parents just aren't involved. They treat the religious education program as a babysitting service - a place to drop their children off and know that they'll be taken care of. When the students are asked if they go to Mass every week, pray as a family or go to penance regularly, only a very small percentage say that they do. What we do in the classroom is only a part of the big picture. The parents should be supplementing what we do.
Also, there will be behavior problems just like in a regular classroom, and while some parents admit that their child is restless or talkative, others will deny that their sweet little angel has misbehaved.
The last challenge, because I teach at evening religious ed, is that the kids (like me) are tired. They've been at school all day, have come home, done some homework, eaten dinner and now they are sitting in front of me. They would rather be home watching TV or chatting with friends.
It's not all challenging, though. When you know you have gotten through to a student, or when they proudly remember something you taught them weeks ago - that makes it all worthwhile!
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