Religious Education Draft - PDST

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION • LOOKING IN • PRAYER
Unit 4: Prayer (Continued)
LEARNING OUTCOMES
TEACHER GUIDELINES
Students should put together a prayer
book containing children’s prayers,
prayers for exam time, the elderly, a
mother’s prayer, favourite prayers from
Sacred text, their own prayers etc.
2. participate in or observe different forms
of prayer and give an account of their
observations.
Students should visit local places of
worship and write a report on the
similarities and differences noted.
Explore the symbols used for prayer in
their own and in other religious
traditions; water, crosses, candles,
incense, musical instruments etc.
Compile a pictorial representation of
words, symbols, ideas drawn from their
own religion.
Invite visitors from different religious
traditions into the classroom to
demonstrate or discuss various prayer
forms with the students.
Hold a prayer service using their prayer
book and some of the prayer forms they
have studied.
Practise using different types of prayer,
vocal, meditation, and contemplation.
Communal prayer/personal prayer.
It would be very important here that
students get a chance to participate in
different forms/types of prayer.
Students should be offered the
opportunity of going on retreat.
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