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Suggested teacher PD structure
Suggested teacher PD structure
Step 1:
Ask teachers to read the handout Teaching Scripture in the classroom, highlight PMI.
Discuss with the group key ideas found in highlighted handout
Step 2: Watch the Using Scripture in the classroom video and discuss.
Step 3: Watch the BCE Worlds of the Text video and discuss.
Step 4:
Engage with ways of using scripture documents
Look at the Scripture in your short learning cycle
look at the relevant background to the specific text using the videos from the Bible Project and the Worlds of the Text resources
look at the text book resources
Our understanding of Scripture is enhanced by multiple translations
Our understanding of Scripture is enhanced by multiple translations
(KU Leuven)
Resources:
ECSI Guide 5 Using Scripture in the RE classroom
primary text Two hands of God Mary Coloe The Gospels: God with us Chris Monaghan
Brisbane Catholic Education Videos
BCE Catholic approaches to scripture video
Worlds of The Text BCE Site
handout Teaching Scripture in the classroom
Worlds of the Text P-10
highlighted handout Teaching Scripture
Is the Bible true? Types of truth in Scripture
Literal vs symbolic meaning
What is the Bible?
Background to the Bible BCE
Development from oral tradition to writing to editing
Teaching and using Bible early years Jan Grajczonek
Ways of using Scripture P to 3, 4 to 10
Reciprocal Teaching with Scripture M Moon Ryan Catholic College
5 Skills for Interpreting Text The Bible Project
Bible Gateway NRSV Catholic Edition or GNT
Gospel Parallels 3 Synoptics side by side Four Gospels side by side
Gospel Commentaries Michael Fallon
The Bible Doctor
Resources the role of metaphor in language BBC
Evaluating my use of Scripture in the classroom
The study of scripture in a classroom context takes the reader into the world of Jewish and Christian believers. Teachers need to develop reading and interpretation skills to appreciate the understandings of God and religious experience that are presented in Biblical Texts. The Catholic approach to interpreting scripture is summed up in the Catechism of the Catholic Church:
The study of scripture in a classroom context takes the reader into the world of Jewish and Christian believers. Teachers need to develop reading and interpretation skills to appreciate the understandings of God and religious experience that are presented in Biblical Texts. The Catholic approach to interpreting scripture is summed up in the Catechism of the Catholic Church:
In Sacred Scripture, God speaks to the person in a human way. To interpret Scripture correctly, the reader must be attentive to what the human authors truly wanted to affirm and to what God wanted to reveal to us by their words (n 109).
In Sacred Scripture, God speaks to the person in a human way. To interpret Scripture correctly, the reader must be attentive to what the human authors truly wanted to affirm and to what God wanted to reveal to us by their words (n 109).
World of the Text A2 poster Middle School updated.pdfWorld of the Text A2 poster SENIOR version .pdfWorlds of the texts junior and senior posters BCE https://catholicidentity.bne.catholic.edu.au/resources-tools/SitePages/Resources%20Supporting%20Religious%20Education%20Curriculum%20P-12.aspx
BCE World of the Text poster Primary original version.pdfThis was the original BCE primary poster, it was not updated when the junior and senior posters were.
Suggested Resources
Jesus & The Gospels **** Maurice Ryan Lumino Press 2012
Path Through Scripture Mark Link Tabor Publishing 1995
Presenting the New Testament - a manual of Teaching Activities, Commentary and Blackline Masters Maurice Ryan Lumino Press 2015
The world Jesus knew Marc Olson, 2017
The Gospels - God with us Christopher Monaghan Garratt Publishing
The two hands of God - creation and Scripture Mary Coloe Garratt Publishing 2014
Bible God's Great Book of Books Big Book
Reading the Bible an introduction for students ed Maurice Ryan Lumino Press 2009
The term ‘New Testament’ did not emerge until the 3rd century CE. The text is considered a sacred text to Christians. The word ‘Testament’ means ‘covenant’.
The term ‘New Testament’ did not emerge until the 3rd century CE. The text is considered a sacred text to Christians. The word ‘Testament’ means ‘covenant’.
The New Testament is made up of 27 books and contained within these books are a number of different genres.
Understanding Religion 9 Peta Goldburg 2015 Cambridge University PressThe New Testament is made up of 27 books and contained within these books are a number of different genres.
Chapter and verse divisions are not part of the original text of the Bible. Chapters were introduced in the thirteenth century and verses in the sixteenth century.
Jewish understandings of God
Jewish understandings of God
Primeval History
The Creation accounts reveal that God’s creation was good, ordered, and harmonious and that woman and man are created equal in the image and likeness of God.(p38-43)
Patriarchs and Matriarchs 1850 (BCE).
They came to understand God as ONE, a personal relationship with humanity, help Moses have a family and land. (p44)
The Exodus of the Israelites and the Covenant 1700 to 1290 (BCE).
The understanding that one God was above all other gods came to Moses when God revealed God’s name—Yahweh, meaning “I am the One who is always present.”
They came to understand God as a powerful soldier who fought for those in trouble and who wanted people to be free. (p46)
Settling the Promised Land 1250 to 1000 (BCE)
The Nation and the Temple (BCE)
They came to understood God like a great King, living in a palace or The Temple. (p50)
The Kings and the Prophets 922 (BCE) - 587 (BCE)
They came to understand God as Divine Wisdom guiding creation. (p52, 56)
The Two Hands of God, creation and scripture Dr Mary Coloe John Garratt
4 Steps to Recontextualisation
4 Steps to Recontextualisation
1. Listen (to the text [written, spoken or visual] in a number of different ways)
2. Dialogue (with the biblical tradition; with the post-biblical tradition; with the current context)
3. Perform (how is the text speaking to me [or us] today?
4. Evaluate (does it respect the text?; does it respect the context?; does it allow for the mutual interruption of text and context? Does it lead to transformation?)
Source: Robyn Horner & Teresa Brown, Recontextualisation in Theory and practice (forthcoming, 2022)
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