Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Teaching Religions Chronologically or Based on School Culture? Your school is on a 50 minute period schedule and you are in the middle of teaching a unit on Southwest Asia in an ethnically diverse school. Your standards include comparing and contrasting the three major religions in this region: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. You decide the most logical way to teach religion is chronologically so you start with Judaism on Monday, then Christianity on Tuesday, and then teach Islam on Wednesday. On Wednesday afternoon the principal calls you in letting you know that a several of the parents of Muslim children are offended because you you taught Islam last and are assuming that you think it is not as important and/or you have an agenda. What would you tell the parents and how might you teach it differently next year? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) I would simply tell the parents the reason why I taught Islam last. That it is important to me and to let the students know that this religion is important to know and that's why I am teaching it. Also let the parents know that I was just going in chronological order and that's the reason it was last and next semester I will change it to be first and do rotations.