ED2618 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Australian Curriculum, Positive Interdependence, Stop Motion
Reading Guide Week 4 Chapter: 13 Primary
Grajczonek, J., & Ryan, M. (2014). Growing in Wisdom: Religious Education in Catholic Primary Schools and Early
Childhood. Hamilton, Qld: Lumino Press.
Title: Teaching and learning in the Primary School
Author: J. Petersen
1. How can Religious Education teachers construct and develop new ways of teaching and learning to meet the needs
of 21st century learners?
o Embrace pedagogy to support quality teaching and learning to enhance the learning experience for
these students
o ICT integrated into learning
o Not replaced by teacher
o Meet the student’s individual needs
2. What does the Australian Curriculum and the Congregation for Catholic Education say about the general capabilities
and the importance of developing these in Religious Education classes.
o Knowledge, skills,
o Live successfully
• Godly play
• Prayer
3. Discuss the following teaching and learning strategies that you might have used
o Discussion strategies:
• Most widely used teaching and learning tool
• Whole class, group, or pairs
1. Think pair share
2. Seesaw
3. Global cafes
4. Pop stick/Pass the ball
5. Agree/Disagree
6. Whole class debate
7. Problem solving debate
8. Cooperative controversy
o Collaborative strategies:
• Involves students working together in small groups to complete a learning task to reach a
common goal
o Thinking strategies
• Inclusion of creative and critical thinking
• Helps students to make sense of the world around them
• Killen (2003)
1. Positive interdependence
2. Ongoing direct interaction
3. Individual and group accountability
4. Appropriate interpersonal skills
5. Reflection on student learning and functioning of the group
• 6 Thinking hats
• Multiple intelligences
• Blooms Taxonomy
o Stories and story-telling strategies
• Story is central to the classroom religion
• Opportunities to engage with and develop spiritual, moral, and religious concepts and the
language to express such concepts
• Connected the students’ life experiences High quality, engaging children’s literature
• Godly play
o Inquiry strategy
• Takes learning beyond research
• Attempts to harness the wonder and curiosity that is innate in young children
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