Films: Pedagogies in action
Constructivism
Notes for Teachers
Babington Community Technical College
What do different pedagogies look like when transferred to the classroom? This film illustrates how a different theoretical approach to RE can results in different activities and experiences for students.
Critical Realism
Notes for Teachers
City of London School for Boys
Head of Religious Studies, Joe Silvester, uses an enquiry approach to stimulate students' thinking about the impact of religion on individuals and society.
The lesson combines a focus on the areas of enquiry to do with practices and lifestyles (B) and questions of meaning, purpose and truth (E).
Students consider examples of practices and news items associated with different religions and make connections with arguments about whether religion in general does more harm or good in the world.
Through a series of activities, students develop skills of critical reasoning, first by weighing up the strength of a variety of given arguments about the impact of practices associated with religions in the world and, then, by making their own judgement in the light of those arguments. Students begin to consider the extent to which believers' lives provide evidence for the 'truth' of the religions themselves.
Human Development
Human Development
Notes for Teachers
Transition KS2/3: linking with Literacy and ICT - Royal Manor School
Welcome to the new best practice video clips for 2009-2010. These have been designed to support subject leaders and schools to explore, in more detail, aspects of the new secondary curriculum. There are two video clips for each subject area and additional videos that cover examples of the implementation of the EWBFC programme of study within PSHE education. The videos are all examples of real life practice in secondary schools throughout the country. They illustrate the many different, and innovative, ways in which schools are planning the implementation of the new curriculum to ensure coherence, flexibility and impact. Many of the clips illustrate collaboration between and across subjects and the delivery of the wider aims of the curriculum - so you will get the most out of them by watching more clips than those that just illustrate examples from your subject area.
Phenomenological
Notes for Teachers
Personalising Learning in RE - Holmfirth School
Welcome to the new best practice video clips for 2009-2010. These have been designed to support subject leaders and schools to explore, in more detail, aspects of the new secondary curriculum. There are two video clips for each subject area and additional videos that cover examples of the implementation of the EWBFC programme of study within PSHE education. The videos are all examples of real life practice in secondary schools throughout the country. They illustrate the many different, and innovative, ways in which schools are planning the implementation of the new curriculum to ensure coherence, flexibility and impact. Many of the clips illustrate collaboration between and across subjects and the delivery of the wider aims of the curriculum - so you will get the most out of them by watching more clips than those that just illustrate examples from your subject area.
Phenomenology
Notes for Teachers
King Edward VI High School for Girls
Head of RE, Alison Young, helps students in a Year 9 class to investigate the personality and teaching of Jesus through the use of symbols.
The lesson combines a focus on the areas of enquiry to do with forms of expressing meaning (C) and questions of identity, diversity and belonging (D).
Starting with the idea that symbols are used frequently in religions to point towards deeper 'truths', the teacher helps students deepen their knowledge and understanding by inviting them to select features of Jesus' character as portrayed in Luke's Gospel and produce their own symbolic representations of those characteristics. While doing so, students are encouraged to leave to one side their own ideas of who Jesus is or what he might mean to them, in favour of representing Jesus as he appears in the Gospel and how Christians want to portray him today.
Students, therefore, examine the text of Luke's Gospel for stories and sayings that reveal what appear to be key aspects of Jesus' personality and message. The task is then to make abstract connections with modern or everyday objects that provide clues to one or more of these aspects. Finally, they produce a rationale for the connections they have made.
The teacher ends the lesson with a summary of the findings, highlighting some key Christian teachings and making connections with people's lives today.
