Tips/Ideas for RE Classes

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I thought I would start a thread with tips or ideas for those of us who will be teaching Religious Education classes. This is going to be my first year “officially” teaching and thought there might be others on the forum embarking on this great journey. Any advice, tips or ideas would be greatly appreciated to make classes not only educational but fun and inspirational. So for all you vets out there any words of wisdom?

P.S. I will be teaching grade 6 this year.
 
You hit the nail on the head when you stated that you were looking for ideas that were “not only educational but fun and inspirational.” Bingo!:clapping:

Here are some helpful hints. I could write 101 helpful hints but I won’t bore you to tears. Here are the ones I believe are the **most **important in my humble opinion.
  1. Talk to each student as if their mother and father were standing beside them.
  2. Do not be afraid to admit that you do not know the answer. Learn with and from your pupils.
I wish you the very best. The fact that you posted your question leads me to believe that your students will be blessed to have you as their teacher.
 
A few years ago, I taught 6th grade Religious Education for my parish. The topic to be addressed was the Bible.

I challenged my students to read the bible, handed out a bible reading list (taken so that the reading they were to do corresponding to the readings, 1st, psalms, 2nd, and gospel, from the Sunday mass of that week), and spent the first part of each class, working through those readings, sometimes following references to other reading, sometimes asking questions forcing the students to try to understand the context that the passage was taken.

The students where shocked by what I expected of them, compared to their previous Rel. Ed. teachers. I told them, it does not matter, that they could handle reading the bible and trying to understand it, and they did.

In addition to these readings, we also covered the book provided by the program going into the different types of passages, etc. And again I had them looking up bible references and examples for them.

I also had some “fun activities” against built around use of the bible or understanding the bible. I created a book of the bible wordfind. (I have it online at: stobie.home.sprynet.com/religion/BibleWordFind.htm )

Expect a lot and students will rise to the expectations. Expect a little and students will give you just a little.
 
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Carmetta:
I thought I would start a thread with tips or ideas for those of us who will be teaching Religious Education classes. This is going to be my first year “officially” teaching and thought there might be others on the forum embarking on this great journey. Any advice, tips or ideas would be greatly appreciated to make classes not only educational but fun and inspirational. So for all you vets out there any words of wisdom?

P.S. I will be teaching grade 6 this year.
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i have taught it for years… be prepared for a red letter day… the day you talk about the 10 commandments and you get to the one about coveting someones wife… you won’t believe the discussion you will encounter with a 50% plus divorce rate… i will always remember that day for me… had to get a priest to save me 😃

Just be an honest faithful orthodox catholic… then look out the parents will get you… 😃 …

good luck and God Bless you… 👍
 
I have just completed 30 years of teaching the Faith and the first thing I would say about it is that in most cases the kids believe what you believe…

I have lots of visuals in my classroom, i.e, Pictures of Jesus, Mary and the Saints, Rosaries, Holy Water, music and videos, timelines, The Catechism of The Catholic Church to name a few.
I always go well prepared with a good lesson plan and back-up to it as we only have 45min. on Sunday mornings.

I’ve been praying for the discernment to decide if I should retire or not. I need your prayers…:gopray2:
 
T.A.Stobie:
Expect a lot and students will rise to the expectations. Expect a little and students will give you just a little.
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:amen:Well stated.
 
At my last Parish, the 8th graders teamed up with our Pro-life Ministry. It was fab!

At the beginning I went in to talk to them about what we do and then about once a month they helped us with something.

It was great! They loved hearing about our ministry-kids just love babies-and we gave them stickers, pencils, booklets and things like that which they loved. And then WE had all those helping hands for our activities like Carnation sales and petition signing after Mass. They wrote Pro-life Poetry and letters to our Congressmen. The ideas go on and on.

It was a great way to inform many of the terribly uninformed parents also.

Stephanie
 
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