Internal ESE library
Exceptional Student Education
Exceptional Student Education curriculum with monthly lessons, seasonal units, filler lessons, and orientation resources.
Monthly Curriculum
Monthly ESE lesson files grouped by the original pages.
January Curriculum
January Curriculum
February Curriculum
February Curriculum
July Curriculum
July Curriculum
August Curriculum
August Curriculum
September Curriculum
September Curriculum
October Curriculum
October Curriculum
November Curriculum
November Curriculum
December Curriculum
December Curriculum
Seasonal and Filler Lessons
Seasonal and supplemental ESE lesson files.
Holy Great Fast Curriculum
Holy Great Fast Curriculum
Holy 50 Joyous Days Curriculum
Holy 50 Joyous Days Curriculum
Filler Lessons Curriculum
Filler Lessons Curriculum
Orientation
Orientation and servant-support material extracted into the app.
ESE Sunday School Orientation
A.G.A.P.E. (Appreciating God-Given Abilities of Persons with Exceptionalities): Exceptional Student Education Modified Sunday School Curriculum
Dear Fellow Servants,
By the grace of God, the Coptic Orthodox Diocese of the Southern United States, under the auspices of His Grace Bishop Youssef, developed a program called, “A.G.A.P.E.”—Appreciating God-Given Abilities of Persons with Exceptionalities, a modified curriculum for exceptional student education (ESE) to be used in conjunction with the current Sunday school program. Every lesson of each grade is in a PowerPoint presentation, complete with the same objective, memory verse, outline, application, and conclusion.
We strongly advocate for inclusion of exceptional students in the regular Sunday school classes with their peer groups as much as can be tolerated by the student with special needs. The experience of inclusion benefits students in exceptional education as well as in regular education. Inclusion fosters positive modeling, nurtures compassion toward students with special needs, increases recognition of peers for social purposes, develops friendships between students with different abilities, deepens respects for all persons, and initiates a desire to learn.
Each child has differences that must be considered. Inclusion in the regular Sunday school class may be brief—for just a few minutes, 10-15 minutes, or even last throughout the entire lesson. The child will let you know verbally, if possible, or by gestures. Because the social component is often neglected, other servants and students in the Sunday school classes need an orientation about the importance of every person in church, and especially individuals with special needs. A time should be set before beginning this program for an information session in the classes that you will be attending for inclusion. Encourage the children to extend a hand, be friendly, visit the special needs class, ask how they can help, and never just stare.
“Whoever receives one little child like this in My name receives Me” (Matthew 18:5).
