I have always struggled with getting students to write well in RE. In the past, I have used templates to help structure and focus their writing. However, I often find these templates to be too prescriptive or limiting. I want students to be able to write fluent, knowledge-rich sentences without having to follow a specific […] … More Writing beautiful sentences in RE — Joe Kinnaird

This morning, I blogged about the difficulties that we have as a subject because we don’t have an agreed list of substantive or disciplinary … Why this? Why now? A practical guide to RE curriculum review..

Recently, I have become obsessed with chasing the concept of scholarship from being a single word in a vision statement for RE into an enacted part … And a scholar…

How might we support students as they explore the contested world of stories, sources, and scholarship? Step by step…

In the last couple of weeks, it has been great to be part of discussions with RE colleagues regarding how to use scholarship within our curriculum. With an emphasis on high challenge and low threat, using scholarship can be an excellent way of adding further academic rigour to our curriculum. There has been some superb […] … More How I use scholarship in RE — Joe Kinnaird

It’s been a few months since I last blogged, and since then I have been on a real journey. I hoped to share some of the insights this has given me. I’ve recently been supporting relatively new HoDs in their journey, and I thought I’d try to codify this into something practical and meaningful. I’ve […] … More Wear sunscreen, and otherseemingly sensible advice… — Buisst_Teaching

As a philosophy undergraduate many moons ago, I joined an impromptu book club to read Sartre’s La Nausée; we agreed to all read the book, and come together to distill the wisdom from this legendary text. As I made careful notes in the margins and wrestled with the book, accompanied by licorice paper cigarettes and […] … More New Blog Series – Book Club – What is Islam by Shahab Ahmed. Part 1. — Buisst_Teaching

Here are the promised references for the Teach Meet RS Icons discussion Teach Meet Religious Studies Icons References — Teaching ideas

This page is designed to list a range of books that help develop background knowledge in the subject. Departmentally we are starting to build up a … The Bookshelf — Musings from the chalk face

After attending @TmHistoryIcons and @TmRSIcons and just general twitter browsing I have decided I want to incorporate more higher-level reading into … Guided reading update