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Registration for schools to participate in REsilience opens in June.  Please sign up below to be kept informed and invited to register.

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REsilience offers an exciting training opportunity for teachers of RE through building their confidence to handle contentious issues. The project gives schools individual support and broadens perspectives for community cohesion.

Teaching RE

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A distinctive angle on community cohesion Print E-mail

In a recent report (Good Professional Development in Schools, March 2010) Ofsted noted that ‘school-based professional development, with judicious use of external support, proved to be the most effective means of improving staff skills’.This observation underscores the approach adoptedby REsilience/AtGyfnerthu.
Every school is unique – in its location, its social circumstances, its student and staff bodies. Every school has its own distinctive priorities. REsilience/AtGyfnerthu is a process, not a curriculum or a method: still less a dogma. It aims to offer something stimulating, individualised and helpful to every school that participates through allocating each one its own trained mentor. In this way we believe we can make a positive contribution to the way a school addresses some of the issues surrounding community cohesion through its provision for religious education.
The core offer is:

  • a tool that enables a school to evaluate the existing levels of confidence in addressing contentious issues that arise in RE lessons;
  • a range of easily accessible materials for teachers covering areas where their confidence may be low;
  • help to identify the first priority areas where a school can assist teachers of RE to build up their confidence as necessary;
  • support for the development of a practical action plan to address the identified priorities.

GeoffreyPenzer
Project manager for the REsilience/AtGyfnerthu programme

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REsilience is for you Print E-mail

If you are involved in the teaching of RE in a secondary school, REsilience is for you.

Many of the most interesting issues that can arise in RE lessons are contentious, and the REsilience programme is being developed to help boost the confidence with which teachers handle them.

Whatever your level of experience, and whatever your qualification in RE, REsilience has been designed to help you identify where (if at all) your confidence needs boosting and then to plan just what to do about it.

If you'd like to become involved, complete the 'I am interested form' to be kept in touch and to discover more.