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 explain to the parents and Principal that I was teaching religions in chronological order and do not have intentions on changing that in future years because of the way the unit is designed. At the beginning of the unit I may be inclined to send a letter home explaining the overview of the unit and say what religions we will be learning about and when we will begin focusing on them.