Essential Religious and Moral Education for Basic 7, 8 & 9

ESSENTIAL Religious and Moral Education offers you a premium course in Religious and Moral Education. The material has been developed to meet the full requirements of the Common Core curriculum for JHS, as developed by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA), carefully addressing all Strands, Sub-strands, Content Standards, Indicators and Core Competencies. Attitudes, values and skills as prescribed by the curriculum, are addressed throughout the series.

ESSENTIAL Religious and Moral Education encourages learners to be morally adept, responsible and patriotic citizens who are self-confident, respectful of others and excellent critical thinkers.

The ESSENTIAL Basic 7, 8 & 9 Learner's Book offers you attractive pages with:

--A ccessible and relevant content, supported by meaningful illustrations that bring Religious and Moral Education to life

-- Clear explanations of basic concepts

-- A variety of activities and discussion questions to develop and consolidate knowledge and skills, including critical-thinking skills to improve learner engagement

-- Assessment sections that can be used to evaluate progress and achievement.

The ESSENTIAL Basic 7, 8 & 9 Facilitator's Guide supports you to teach the new curriculum with confidence and offers:

-- Step-by-step teaching guidelines

-- Answers to all activities in the Learner's Book

-- Assessment rubrics that can be used to assess learners' grasp of important ideas and concepts

-- Memos that can be used to assess learners' comprehension of content covered in each Strand

-- Activities that can be used for diagnostic assessment

-- Suggestions for how to include local materials and ICT in the learning process

-- A curriculum coverage table indicating how Content Standards and Core Competencies are covered in the course

-- Additional homework activities to support extended learning.