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Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me —
put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you. Philippians 4:9
Peter Liljedahl's book, Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics, has resulted in many educators around the world adopting his proposed strategies and tools to engage learners. These practices can be adapted for Religious Education to help students develop 21st century learning competencies like knowledge construction, critical thinking, problem solving, communication and collaboration skills.
On this page you will find teacher PD resources to understand the pedagogy around instruction and learning, however, for the scope of this project we did not have the capacity to go into assessment practices. A slide deck and video has been prepared by the project team. Please take the time to watch the videos before implementing the lessons to understand how to facilitate the activities.
The Thinking Classroom for Secondary Religious Education
The slide deck explains the concept of the Thinking Classroom, its main elements, and walks through sample activities as a demonstration. For the videos below:
Video 1 - Introduction (Time: 6:23 min)
Video 2 - Elements #1 to 6 (Time: 5:21 min)
Video 3 - Elements #7 to 14 (Time: 11:49 min)
Video 4 - Application Examples (Time: 10:33 min)
Slide Deck with Main Elements
V1 - Introduction to The Thinking Classroom for Secondary Religious Education PD.mp4V2 - First 6 Elements of The Thinking Classroom.mp4V3 - Final 8 Elements of The Thinking Classroom.mp4V4 - Application of TTC Principles to the Secondary Religious Education.mp4Thinking Classroom Infographics
Laura Wheeler, a teacher at the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, summarizes the main ideas of Building Thinking Classrooms in several sketchnotes.
Review the 14 steps at a glance.
Please take note of the Vertical Non-Permanent Surfaces (VNPS) and Visibly Random Groups (VRGs) below. They are used frequently in the lessons featured in this resource.
You can find more information in this Building #Thinking Classrooms article.
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