Implementing Creative Arts and student choice within the Religious Education Classroom.

Self Reflection, Classroom Observation and Feedback

Thursday 24 March 2016

  

Integrating Creative Arts and the Religious Education curriculum is an effective tool to assist students to gain greater understanding of our Sacred stories and for students to exercise their creative talents to express their understanding of Scripture. 

Educators often find it difficult to create opportunities for students to "inquire" and express their own "voice" to their learning. This REC asked for feedback on the effectiveness in integrating these two strategies, student voice and dramatic devices. 

 This lesson utilised dramatic devices of "freeze frame" to reflect the Stations of the Cross. The "statues" created by the students were effective, moving and reverent and truly expressed the mood, tone and understanding of this most sacred form of prayer. 

Engaging in this self Reflection process has been beneficial for the REC and has assisted their leadership skills to implement a similar process within their own school context, to lead beginning teachers in reflecting on their own practice, particularly when teaching RE.

Reflection Process