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Sue Phillips Sue teaches at Bognor Regis Community College in West Sussex where she is Head of RE, Professional Tutor and an Advanced Skills Teacher working on in reach within her own school. In her AST role Sue supports a number of departments through coaching and mentoring. A trained counsellor, she delivers CPD on communication skills together with multi sensory learning and assessment. Over the past ten years she has developed an approach to RE which she calls the Theatre of Learning. Pupils work, using music, in circles within and around huge multi-sensory sets representing whatever aspect of the religious tradition she is teaching. The active and experiential activities which take place in the Theatre of Learning enable pupils to develop their own spirituality, empathise with beliefs and practices different from their own and promote high quality written work, enabling and inspiring pupils to write up to level eight. The techniques of the Theatre of Learning can be adapted to any programme of study and any age range and are being used by teachers in both primary school and to teach sixth form. Sue now demonstrates the techniques of the Theatre of Learning in courses she runs regularly in her own classroom for teachers on the south coast and, as time permits, at venues around the country. In schools where Theatre of Learning is being used, the techniques have transformed motivation, behaviour and recruitment to GCSE, improved examination results and enabled teachers to experience more job satisfaction and fulfilment as their own creativity and spirituality is developed alongside that of their pupils. Sue has an international reputation through her presentations at the International Conference on Children’s Spirituality and her writing in their journal. She has written a chapter for an international handbook on RE and spirituality to be published in Australia later this year. She has demonstrated her work at the National Symposium of Religious Education in Australia and New Zealand and presented Theatre of Learning in RE and Citizenship throughout Australia to teachers in the Catholic and Lutheran church in August 2006. Articles on Theatre of Learning have appeared in the TES, the SHAP Journal for World Religions, RE Today and the International Journal for Children’s Spirituality. A series of five teacher resource files containing lesson recipes for all aspects of RE are available from SfE - samples can be viewed on the website www.sfe.co.uk/theatreoflearning. Sue can be contacted at njphillips@supanet.com 18 Experiential RE: Supporting documents
Further RE resources available from SfE/Sue Phillips For more information and to order any of these resources, please visit www.sfe.co.uk, call us on 0117 3115276, fax 0117 3115421 or email sfe@ctad.co.uk. Making RE Make Sense: Bringing RE to life £56.90+vat This resource file by internationally-acclaimed author Sue Phillips provides an exciting, practical approach to teaching RE. Successive annual reports for RE state that many pupils receive mechanistic and undemanding activities. As a consequence, pupils have difficulty in describing accurately the main features of different faiths and understanding how religious faith can affect the lives of believers. They have little knowledge of religions and have poor analytical and evaluative skills. This introduction to Experiential RE (using Sue’s awardwinning Theatre of Learning techniques) enables teachers to use five methods to engage, motivate and instruct their students. Comprehensive textual discussion is illustrated by photographs, an ‘in action’ video and examples of students’ work. This is a complete guide to using experiential, enactive and multi-sensory techniques to help pupils empathise with believers, understand abstract concepts and ultimate questions, and produce high-quality written work. This resource costs just £51.21+vat when purchased with one of the other four resources. Teaching philosophical issues and abstract concepts: Bringing RE to life £56.90+vat This resource covers the key concepts forming the framework upon which the understanding of religion is based. It will help your students to engage with ultimate questions on a personal level, while each section is based around the three part lesson and the literacy strategy, enabling pupils to work up to level 8. Packed with ideas for the specialist, non-specialist and NQT alike, the file includes sections on: ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ Early religion Myth Life after death and how we cope with death Arguments for and against the existence of God Science and religion Verification of religious experience Religion-specific resources Comprehensive and eLC-eligable, these provide thorough set of lesson ‘recipes’ which will: ■ Help pupils to understand the abstract concepts through ■ ■ personal, religion-neutral experiences Support the literacy strategy, with cloze passages and vocabulary sheets for follow-up work Stretch the most able whilst raising general academic standards using the structured, levelled tasks and mark schemes Teaching Christianity: Bringing RE to life £56.90+vat Covers topics including: ■ The evil planet: the concept of the Fall of Man ■ Christian Prayer ■ Spontaneous and liturgical worship ■ Church leaders Teaching Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam and Sikhism: Bringing RE to life £66.90+vat for 4 sections £56.90+vat for 3 sections £46.90+vat for 2 sections £36.90+vat for 1 section Covers topics including: ■ Hinduism: God in image; Reincarnation ■ Buddhism: Meditation; Tao and Zen ■ Islam: Islamophobia - dealing with stereotypes ■ Sikhism: creating an ideal community Teaching Judaism: Bringing RE to life £56.90+vat Covers topics including: ■ Teaching about the Holocaust ■ Death and Jewish funerals ■ Jewish prayer ■ All the major Jewish festivals Experiential RE: Supporting documents 19
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