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Our Mission: Promoting high standards of professional development and working conditions for Christian Educators.
Our Vision: Serving Christian Teachers by:
- Providing professional development opportunities
- Advocating for equitable salaries, benefits and quality contracts and employee policies
- Providing a public voice in education
- Nurturing a community of mutual support
- Encouraging Cross-cultural partnership opportunities
- Providing effective Board and Committee leadership and governance
- Putting vision into practice through quality and stewardly administrative services.
Core Values: CTABC Educators desire to be:
- Passionate about relating to students their faith in Jesus Christ to all of life.
- Eager to make the Biblical message relevant.
- Committed to the church
- Excited about God’s revelation in creation and culture when viewed through the prism of a Biblical World and Life View;
- Creative and affirming in presenting opportunities to disciple students in ways that honour their neighbour, the creation and God.
- Committed to on-going professional development; reflective in their teaching practice; open to trying new teaching strategies and curriculum; and supportive of the formative and summative evaluations promoted by CTABC-SCSBC schools.
- Collaborative rather than adversarial.
- Community builders within the classroom, the school, and school community.
- Team players that work with a variety of educators that include Special Education Assistants, Teachers, Counsellors, Librarians, Principals, and Pre-school teachers.
- Networkers who work collaboratively through service and professional associations such as CTABC, SCSBC, FISA, CSC and CPABC.
- Committed to Cross Cultural professional development and service.
- Global thinkers and communicators who network with Public Education Bodies such as BC College of Teachers, Ministry of Education, Independent School Branch, Universities, Colleges of Education and other National and International Educational Bodies.
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