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Develop your RE teaching whilst working towards Chartered Teacher Status

RE Today exists to educate, equip and empower you as a teacher of RE. Our publications and resources can support you in gaining professional qualifications. We are delighted to work with the Chartered College of Teaching to enable you to work towards Chartered Teacher Status whilst simultaneously developing your practice in RE.

Where might you start?

The Chartered College of Teaching’s Expertise in Teaching Certificate provides you with an opportunity to explore research and develop your teaching practice in an area of priority for yourself. To do this with a Religious Education focus, you might consider using several titles with which we are involved in publishing, including:

• British Journal of Religious Education, an international peer-reviewed journal which focuses on research into Religious Education.
• Understanding Christianity and the national evaluation of this resource by Dr Rachael Shillitoe at the University of Birmingham. Please note there are also some local evaluations of Understanding Christianity which you can use to further evidence informed practice.
• Big Questions, Big Answers series for primary education and Challenging Knowledge in RE series for secondary. These series have been created thanks to funding from the Templeton World Charity Foundation’s Big Questions in Classrooms programme and are based on research into multi-disciplinary RE. Academic contributors to these books include Dr Chris Cotter (Religious Studies), Dr Jane Gatley (philosophy), Dr Alexander Hall (environmental science), Dr Carissa Sharp (psychology), Dr Rachael Shillitoe (sociology), Dr Simeon Zahl (theology).
• Professional REflection. This termly journal is packed full of articles from teacher researchers and academics, alongside containing plenty of other useful information such as research updates. It can be found within your paper copy of REtoday magazine and articles from within Professional REflection can be located in REtoday magazine’s online library.
• The Welcome to a Religion and Worldviews Approach suite of resources, where you will find Developing a Religion and Worldviews Approach in Religious Education in England: A Handbook for curriculum writers, frameworks written by different teams exemplifying how the handbook might be put into practice to develop a Religion and Worldviews curriculum, explanatory films and additional reading.
• Understanding Unbelief and Explaining Atheism. RE Today has been a partner in these two major international research projects examining non-religious worldviews. Some of the multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research findings are being used to create a free resource on non-religion for the classroom. Early examples are included in Investigating Non-religious worldviews, for example.
• Understanding Muslims, Understanding Islam for primary and secondary is based on research linked to several disciplinary lenses, especially human and social sciences using voices of contemporary Muslims to open up what it means to be Muslim in Britain and beyond.
  

  We hope you find these resources make working toward the Expertise in Teaching Certificate a professionally fulfilling experience, allowing you to further become a research-informed RE practitioner.

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