Tomorow the inspection of education will come sit in on my class, and I'm nervous as a mouse on a feline convention. I don't know why... I keep to the teaching plan they have set out... Though of course I do throw in some more traditional things in from time to time.
Can you imagine that the rosary is not even MENTIONED in a teaching plan for the entire six years? Or the real presence?
Of course they do leave things open so you can add. They work with great themes and a learning line which should build up to catholic teaching more and more, in theory. For example you start with 'time' and then work from there: "important moments in your own life, moments of 'reflection or religion' in the rhytme of day, week, and year, finding a 'view on life' in the way you use your time, place feasts of Catholicism and other religions on a calendar, a reflective look on time as a gift and a mission and speak on new possible ways to spend time, find in stories of the bible what Jesus spends his time on and 'using a journal'."
((I am NOT kidding, this is translated straight from my teaching plan Roman- Catholic religion for secundary -this means highschool- education in Flanders, aproved by the bisshops as officially recognised repsonsibles for the teaching of Roman Catholic Education in schools.))
The above is my list of teaching goals for my group in 'first professional'. Of course they do leave you free to add to that list if you want/ can. Guess who put in a lesson on 'Time: spending time with God: the mass. or 'Time: spending Time with God: prayer'?
Anyhow, at the moment I'm just... nervous. This is the class in which last lesson the muslim boy was added. He's nice and polite, and as I said, if I were teaching moral I would be very happy to have him in class. For now, however, with the inspection to come, I would have loved to have just a bit more time to refind an equilibrium with the class. ((BTW, I asked: he can't change back, department of education won't allow it.))
Can you imagine that the rosary is not even MENTIONED in a teaching plan for the entire six years? Or the real presence?
Of course they do leave things open so you can add. They work with great themes and a learning line which should build up to catholic teaching more and more, in theory. For example you start with 'time' and then work from there: "important moments in your own life, moments of 'reflection or religion' in the rhytme of day, week, and year, finding a 'view on life' in the way you use your time, place feasts of Catholicism and other religions on a calendar, a reflective look on time as a gift and a mission and speak on new possible ways to spend time, find in stories of the bible what Jesus spends his time on and 'using a journal'."
((I am NOT kidding, this is translated straight from my teaching plan Roman- Catholic religion for secundary -this means highschool- education in Flanders, aproved by the bisshops as officially recognised repsonsibles for the teaching of Roman Catholic Education in schools.))
The above is my list of teaching goals for my group in 'first professional'. Of course they do leave you free to add to that list if you want/ can. Guess who put in a lesson on 'Time: spending time with God: the mass. or 'Time: spending Time with God: prayer'?
Anyhow, at the moment I'm just... nervous. This is the class in which last lesson the muslim boy was added. He's nice and polite, and as I said, if I were teaching moral I would be very happy to have him in class. For now, however, with the inspection to come, I would have loved to have just a bit more time to refind an equilibrium with the class. ((BTW, I asked: he can't change back, department of education won't allow it.))
for peace! 
