Articles about RE teachers
This article is for paying subscribers RElics, RElevance and the RE classroom
This article is for paying subscribers Research update
A big step up for your RE in a single day
Tips for teaching early years RE
Sheila Plant and Jane Brooke make some practical suggestions for RE for 5-year-olds.
New RE programmes from the BBC for 5–7s and 11–14s
How important is subject knowledge?
Ten ways governors can help RE
Defending RE: ten pillars of RE
This article is for paying subscribers Challenging pupils in RE: why it’s unhelpful to put limits on children’s learning
A common practice in schools is to group pupils by ability, often giving groups non-hierarchical names or labels. Despite this, pupils have a pretty good idea what their label means and this can lead to pupils’...
This article is for paying subscribers Ten key points: how to defend RE in the primary curriculum
Rachel Buckby leads RE at St John’s School in Leicester, and is a member of the NATRE Executive. We asked her how she has built such a successful subject base in her school. Can you pick up tips?
This article is for paying subscribers We need to talk about RE: manifestos for the future of religious education
This article is for paying subscribers A strategic approach to research in RE
We hear a lot about research-informed teaching. However, as James Robson points out here, in reality teachers have little opportunity – for the reasons he so clearly points out – to engage with research, although...
This article is for paying subscribers The best of religion: our top 20
The REtoday Editorial Team considered this term’s theme. We made this list of our top 20 manifestations of religion globally. What an arrogant idea! Make your own list if you wish before reading on: did you share...
This article is for paying subscribers Open letter to Religious Studies teachers in memory of my own teacher, Kenneth Oldfield, at the Lakes School, Windermere, 1978–84
Not a lot of people knew the phrase ‘global village’ in 1978 in Windermere.
Not a lot of people knew that it was Cat Stevens, not Rod Stewart, who wrote ‘The First Cut Is The Deepest.’
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This article is for paying subscribers Switching off from RE
Research update
This article is for paying subscribers RE for all?
Reflections from a ‘ retired ’ primary school teacher
This article is for paying subscribers What’s in it for me?
The State of the Nation and the Commission on RE Interim Report ‘RE for All’ are at first sight one step removed from Monday afternoon Year 3 or Year 9 RE lessons. The influence, though, of such reports is ‘for...
This article is for paying subscribers Research update on the Shared Space project – a joint initiative with NATRE and Bristol University
Over the past year the Shared Space project has been proceeding apace. Shared Space explores whether positive community relations can be promoted in RE lessons, an important claim for the subject made in the...