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Living Faiths

How Living Faiths supports non-specialists teaching RE, by Janet Dyson

November 27, 2018September 27, 2019Oxford RE Team
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For non-specialists teaching RE, there are a number of challenges, the greatest being how to cope with the extensive body of subject knowledge needed to teach and assess RE confidently and well. I’m the Series Editor on Living Faiths and set out to create a set of resources that would help meet some of the challenges outlined […]

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How to Encourage RE Students to Reflect, by Robert Bowie

November 27, 2018September 27, 2019Oxford RE Team
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In Religious Education, we look to encourage students to develop by giving them time to ask their own questions, and evaluate the different answers offered by faiths to the questions they are investigating. Tasks need to be challenging enough to get students thinking about the religious experiences and concepts they have learned. When you prepare […]

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How to Encourage and Track Student Progression in RE, by Robert Bowie

November 14, 2018September 27, 2019Oxford RE Team
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As an RE teacher trainer, I often visit schools and observe lessons, and what I find is that at the heart of all good learning is making sure that each lesson enables students to make progress. That progress is greatly improved when the lesson builds on what students already know, and when they have opportunities […]

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Bringing real people of faith into your classroom, by Julie Haigh

September 30, 2018September 30, 2019Oxford RE Team
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RE is a living subject; it lives in the people and concepts and practices that exist in this country and beyond, and in order for our students to fully engage in what RE is all about, they need to experience and understand RE as a ‘living thing’. Well, herein lies the problem. Many teachers are […]

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