Creative and Inquiry Learning: What makes good RE lessons.

1. Exploration of Religious Materials

2. Use of Religious materials that may raise contentious issues

3. Inquiry based learning that involves effective and progressive questioning

4. Using pupils responses to progress further, deep and more complex learning.

5. Asking pupils raise issues and solve problems for themselves

6. Requiring higher level skills and active collaboration

7. A focus on significant concepts

8. Reflection and expression of pupils own experiences in life

9. Strategies that provide experiential learning

10. An approach that is child centered, enables expression of feelings and responses in a secure environment

11. A balance of human and religious experiences

12. Encouragement for pupils to take a critical view of what they encounter in RE lessons (Erricker et al, 2011)

13. High levels of pupil acivity