This was submitted to my Religious Education Faculty as a suggested way of structuring Religious Education classes to ensure the maintenance of student interest.

STRUCTURING OUR RELIGIOUS EDUCATION LESSONS

1. Prayer experience

• artwork meditation
• reading a prayer
• music to reading
• choral reading
• Bible passage
• Dramatised Bible Passage
• Silent reflection in a natural setting
• Taize service
• Paraliturgy
• Candle Liturgy
• Photo-language exercise

1. Content of particular unit via collaborative learning strategy

• constructed controversy
• jigsaw
• peer tutoring
• mock interviews in small groups after content has been studied

1. Journal

• specific questions
• reflection journal
• private journal

1. Audiovisual material
2. Drama – role play
3. Music

• with specific questions
• comparing two pieces of music for analysis

1. Preparation for Assessment

• group work
• silent work

1. Community service
2. Educational Game

• Board Games
• Sale of the Century
• Theological Hangman
• Biblical Trivial Pursuit
• Simulation Game
• Theological Celebrity Heads

1. Debate or Mock trial
2. Reading articles from The Record or other publications

• a stimulus for discussions on a variety of issues