RE through CL

RE THROUGH CL

Get the confidence to teach religions, using Islam as model content, using best practice outlined in Ofsted’s Realising the Potential.

21C BRITISH MUSLIM

Developed for the Association of Muslim Schools UK, this programme adresses results, radicalisation issues and leadership - in one go.

SATS THROUGH CL

A lesson plan developed with primary teachers to drive SAT results.

CL & SOCIAL SKILLS

Use Cooperative Learning to transform behavior and create the school ethos

you want.

SKILLS & MASTERY

Most popular: Singular focus on results, and accelerated progress across all subjects.

PRIMER & ADVANCED CL

Gives practical tools and expounds on key principles for maximizing the effectiveness of Cooperative Learning in your school.

TEACH & LEARN

together.

WERDELINEDUCATION

Cooperative learning - because we is more than me

Specialised courses

RE through CL

Potential realised.

Originally entitled Islam in RE: Religious Literacy & Controversy through Enquiry this course was first trialled at the School of Education and Lifelong Learning, University of East Anglia, in June 2014 to a select group of researchers, teachers, Islam specialists, SACRE and council members.

Since then, it has been continuously developed and improved, and has been presented in many contexts, including the Institute of Education, London. The controversy module of the course has been presented as the Charlie Hebdo twilights in Walsall last year.

This course is for all educators interested in teaching Islam and in the future role of Religious Education in relation to SMSC and Citizenship. Using Islam as a placeholder, it provides an ideal, fully transferrable lesson template to use when teaching about religious thought and practise, and to discuss values and meaning.

“Thanks for giving me a framework on which to build next year's lessons :)”

- David Clarke, Wayland Academy, RE coordinator, on Islam in RE: Religious Literacy & Controversy through Enquiry,

University of East Anglia, School of Education and Lifelong Learning, Norwich, June 26, 2014

The course is taught through two modules:

Primary objectives of Module A:

demonstrate a series of fully transferable and scalable enquiry exercises into a world religion
provide teachers with tools to achieve religious literacy through enquiry
present relevant high level materials on Islam to allow participating teachers to:
experience some of the challenges of enquiry-based fact-finding from a student’s perspective
construct individualised reference frameworks to organise their own teaching and materials in relation to Islam specifically
quickly and precisely assess potential teaching materials on Islam for relevance and context.

Primary objectives of Module B:

demonstrate fully transferable and scalable enquiry exercises into personal belief and identity, building on religious literacy
manage safe enquiry into controversial areas of Islam, such as gender issues and jihad. This specific course uses medie content following the attacks on Charlie Hebdo in Paris.

Secondary objectives include collaborative reflections on method and content; on the role and impact of RE and SMSC in schools and society at large; the role of religion in contemporary society; and the role of the teacher in enquiry-based learning.

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