The lesson below, taken from The Religion Teacher’s New Roman Missal Student Activity Pack, addresses one of the most striking changes to the new Roman Missal: And with your spirit. The Church community responds to the bishop, priest, or deacon with these words at multiple times during the Mass. What does it mean? How is…
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Hocus Pocus!: A New Roman Missal Lesson Plan
With all of the changes happening in the Church related to the new translation of the Roman Missal, it is important to make a crucial point about the prayers of the Mass: they are not magic words. We use a translation of the original Latin to make a fitting offering to God in the liturgy….
Genesis Creation Stories Lesson Plan
The first three chapters of the book of Genesis relate important truths about ourselves, our humanity, and our relationship with God. A common pitfall we can run into when teaching about these chapters is the differences between the first chapter and chapters two and three. In this lesson plan, students will compare the first two…
Post-Confirmation Lesson Plan and Discussion
What do you teach after Confirmation is over (post-Confirmation sessions)? I recently shared a Confirmation lesson plan that focused on the deductive method of catechesis. The other approach to teaching ritual is the inductive method. This method begins with the ritual and and applies the actions to beliefs. In the case of Confirmation, this means…
Rite of Confirmation Lesson Plan
According to the National Directory for Catechesis, there are two approaches to teaching ritual: the inductive method and the deductive method (NDC, 29). I wrote about these two approaches in a general way in a recent article published in the National Catholic Educational Association’s journal, Momemtum (February/March 2011, pp. 22-23). In the lesson plan below,…
Are you making these lesson planning mistakes?
Are you making the following mistakes? I have and sometimes I still do. They are bad habits that all of us need to avoid at all costs.
Video Tutorial: Selecting Teaching Strategies and Activities – Step 4
This is the final video in support of The Religion Teacher’s Guide to Lesson Planning, the free ebook available here at The Religion Teacher. In these two video tutorials I provide a framework for choosing teaching strategies and activities. The core of this framework is the acronym, PROCESS. I like to think of learning as…
Video Tutorial: Determine the Lesson Assessment – Step 3
In this third installment of the video training material for The Religion Teacher’s Guide to Lesson Planning, we look at assessment. Assessment is most commonly thought of as tests and quizzes, but it is much more than that. Assessment should be seen as a variety of means to check students’ understanding and mastery of learning…
Video Tutorial: Creating Lesson Objectives – Step 2
This video tutorial introduces teachers and catechists to creating lesson objectives using a simplified taxonomy of educational SWBAT objectives.
Video Tutorial: Lesson Preparation – Step 1
Here is the first installment of the video series based on The Religion Teacher’s Guide to Lesson Planning free e-book. In this tutorial you will learn: The sources for selecting topics How to incorporate a curriculum and a textbook into lesson plans How to select the most important information to teach How to use the…
