Where the learners differences in religion taken into consideration by the teacher in planning her activities?

Question

where the learners differences in religion taken into consideration by the teacher in planning her activities?how?

Answer 1

Religion and school are supposed to be completely separate in the U.S., except for private schools. Teachers often do not plan around the religions of students.

Answer 2

I've come across a couple instances of religious expression by teachers when I substituted for their classes in public schools.  The first was when the teacher was on campus but was supervising testing.  They brought in a bunch of kids into the school auditorium where I was to supervise them.  We watched a movie picked out by the teacher that was shown on the theater-sized movie screen.  It was Charleton Heston's "The 10 Commandments".  

Another time was a way in which a teacher tried to get around the prohibition on displaying the 10 Commandments in the classroom.  Instead of having them on wall for all to see, she put them in the back of a cabinet where she kept all the art supplies.  Kids would see them when they got the supplies, but no administrator would see them because the cabinet door would otherwise be closed.  

All I can say to this is...thank God!

Answer 3

I don't plan around religion, however, I am sensitive to it when I do my mythology unit.  I give a very specific definition of mythology as to not offend anyone when a story they see as fact shows up as a "creation myth."  

Also, even though I teach in a public school, I do a world religion project when we read The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.  I tell students that they do not have to research their own religion, but they can if they want to.  However, I make it clear that their research can't be just what they know, I require a works cited page. I then have them connect the concepts of the religion they researched to the novel.

Finally, religion plays a big role in some literature. In fact, in Romeo and Juliet, one of the leading freshmen texts, students need to be familiar with Christianity to understand Shakespeare's tone and commentary via the Friar.  Sometimes teachers assume all students know about certain things, and they don't, so we have to give them the info.

While state and church are separate I think it is important to open student's eyes to other cultures, and one of the seven elements of culture is organized religion.