Lesson Planning Session One SUG 1007 25/11/2014

During my time at the De La Salle Academy when I completed a number of months of voluntary work I was given a number of lesson plans to look over so I had an idea of what they looked like and how to lay them out. However there is a lot more planning and work that needs to go into writing these that I had realised and how important they are to a successful lesson and a well times lesson. According to the government guidelines there are three parts to a successful lesson, these are:

• Oral and mental starter (Whole class chance to remember and sharpen their skills)
• Main part of lesson (Direct teaching, follow up tasks individually and group tasks)
• Plenary (All students involved, reinforcing the key learning ideas)

Before starting any lesson plan we were told that we needed a key concept or idea for the lesson that all the pupils will be able to engage with and relate with. We created our own spider diagram with everything we would need for our own lesson plan. We created our own hook to bring the children’s interest into the lesson and the relation between RE and something they can relate themselves towards. For our lesson we decided to work on the impact Christianity has on modern day society, so it was something that could interest the students and also something that’s does affect their daily lives.

We also looked at other lesson plans from former students and compared them to each other which was really helpful because it gave us an idea as a student what is a good lesson plan and what is a perfect lesson plan

Syllabi and Frameworks for RE SUG 1007 18/11/2014

For the past couple of weeks we have been discussing the position Religious Education has had within the curriculum over the past 70 years, since the end of world war two. We have spoken about a number of issues ranging from the position of RE in the national curriculum presently and before the national curriculum was brought in by Margaret Thatcher in 1988 as part of her education reforms as a new way of testing children on a regular basis. For this weeks lesson we researched an agreed RE syllabi from the local council. This is because RE is not part of the national curriculum and each local SACRE will decide what is taught in the schools of its district.

I studies the syllabi for Sefton in Liverpool, this was quite easy to understand and followed alot of the other syllabi around the country. If I was a teacher in Sefton I believe it was a good syllabi because it described some of the tasks that it wanted the students to undertake as part of their learning, in contrast some syllabi did not mention the work they wanted them to do just what they wanted the children to learn. The Sefton syllabi also introduced the level system that alot of schools in the country use and make it very clear and easy to understand how the student can reach the required level and how you as the teacher can asses them.