Islamic Education

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Islamic Education

• Essential Factors For Effective Islamic Teaching
  Learning
• Professional development for teachers

Presented by Salifu Baba 20 August 2007
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Effective Teaching Learning Principles

• At the end of this session, participants should
  be able to
• Characterise Islamic education
• Identify the mission of Islam
• Identify the vision of effective Islamic teaching
  and learning
• explain the purpose of Islamic education
• identify and explain at least 6 essential factors
  underpinning effective teaching and learning.

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Islamic Education

• The First World Conference on Muslim Education
  held in Mecca in 1977, characterised Islamic
  education as one that should
• provide a balanced growth of the total
  personality of man through training of the human
  spirit, intellect, rational self, feelings and
  bodily senses. The training imparted to a Muslim
  must be such that faith is infused into the whole
  of his personality and creates in him an
  emotional attachment to Islam. (Hashim, 1996, p.
  87).

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Islamic Education

• In Islam, the concept of knowledge is
  inextricably bound up with its belief system,
  particularly, al-tawhid (unity of God).
• Islamic education integrates all knowledge and
  disciplines with Islamic ideology.
• In short, Islamic education recognizes the
  jurisdiction of God Almighty in all
  disciplines. In fact, God occupies a centre court
  in Islamic education.

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Islamic Education

• In the past, Muslim scholars transformed the
  form, content, and intent of sciences, education,
  and arts into Islamic disciplines by integrating
  intellectual and cultural development within the
  Islamic worldview.

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Islamic Education

• However, many Muslim educators and practitioners
  would acknowledge that Islamic education, as it
  is taught today, has been ineffective in teaching
  and inspiring Muslim children to adopt and adhere
  to Islam as a way of life and a system of
  personal and social values.

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Islamic Education

• The crisis of modern-day Islamic education is
  rooted, in large part, in the way we teach our
  children about Islam.
• This approach which focuses primarily on
  conveying information about Islam, has failed
  to capture the hearts and minds of our youth.

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Islamic Education

• A renewed approach is therefore needed one that
  addresses the real needs and concerns of
  students themselves.
• The field of Islamic values education with its
  focus on beliefs, values, manners feelings,
  attitudes, and moral literacy skills should be
  the focus of contemporary Islamic education, as
  it was in the time of the Noble Prophet (SAW).

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Islamic Education

• Fortunately, a sense of renewal is in the air
  today and enlightened Muslims are eager to find
  real solutions to the problems and challenges
  facing the Muslim community and, if necessary, to
  re-examine traditional paradigms within Muslim
  society including how and what we teach our
  children about Islam.

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Islamic Education

• To achieve this goal, a unified and concerted
  effort is needed.
• Muslim educators, practitioners and families must
  increase and unify their efforts to find creative
  solutions that will effectively bridge the gap
  between values and practice in the upcoming
  generation of Muslim youth.
• Islamic schools have a crucial role to play in
  developing solutions and programs that will help
  foster this.

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Effective Teaching Learning

• Principle
• The vision of the an effective Islamic education
  makes an important distinction between teaching
  about Islam and teaching about being Muslims
• Goals of Islamic education
• The goal of Islamic education is not to fill our
  childrens minds with information about Islam,
  but rather to teach them what it means really to
  be Muslims.

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Effective Teaching Learning

• The vision of effective Islamic teaching and
  learning being discussed is based on a dynamic
  rather than static, view of Islam and Islamic
  education.
• This view is rooted in the belief that the
  mission of Islam is to positively transform the
  world, and that the purpose of Islamic education
  is to prepare young men and women capable of
  carrying out this mission.

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Effective Teaching Learning

• According to this view, effective Islamic
  teaching and learning must have the power to
  inspire and transform students in the process of
  Islamic tarbiyyah.

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Effective Teaching Learning

• Several factors are essential for effective
  teaching and learning to occur.
• Islamic school teachers and practitioners must
  become better aware of the important role these
  factors play in effective instruction and future
  programs in Islamic education should be evaluated
  in the light of these or similar principles.

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Effective Teaching Learning

• Some essential factors for effective teaching and
  learning are
• Meaningful
• Integrative
• Values-based
• Challenging
• Active
• Instructional Standards

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Effective Teaching Learning

• Meaningful
• Students should feel that the content they are
  studying is worth learning because it is
  meaningful and relevant to their lives.
• Students must see the usefulness and potential
  application of this knowledge to their everyday
  lives.

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Effective Teaching Learning

• Integrative
• Instruction must be integrated encompassing and
  engaging the whole child (spiritually,
  emotionally, socially, intellectually and
  physically).
• It must be integrative across time, place and
  culture integrative across the curriculum
  integrating knowledge and values with action and
  application.

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Effective Teaching Learning

• Values-based
• The aim of Islamic education is to produce good
  human beings.
• Accordingly, instruction should focus on values
  and considering the ethical dimensions of topics.
  In this way, Islamic education becomes powerful
  vehicle for character development, thus achieving
  its true goal.

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Effective Teaching Learning

• Values-based cont.
• Teachers must realise that every aspect of the
  teaching and learning experience conveys values
  and provide opportunities for students to learn
  about values.

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Effective Teaching Learning

• Challenging
• Students must be challenged to thoughtfully
  examine what they are studying, to participate
  assertively in group discussions, to work
  productively in cooperative learning activities,
  and to come to grips with controversial issues.

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Effective Teaching Learning

• Challenging cont.
• Such activities and experiences will help foster
  the skills needed to produce competent Muslims
  capable of presenting and defending their beliefs
  and principles actively.

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Effective Teaching Learning

• Active
• Great deal is demanded from both the teacher and
  students.
• The teachers must be actively and genuinely
  engaged in the teaching process making plans,
  choices, and curriculum adjustments as needed,
  rather than mechanically following a manual.

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Effective Teaching Learning

• Active cont.
• Teachers must be prepared to continuously update
  their knowledge, adjust goals and content to
  students needs, take advantage of unfolding
  events and teachable moments, develop examples
  that relate directly to students, and other
  practices that facilitate active and meaningful
  instruction.

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Effective Teaching Learning

• Active cont.
• Furthermore, effective instruction must emphasise
  hands-on activities that call for students to
  react to what they are learning and to use it in
  their lives in some meaningful way.

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Effective Teaching Learning

• Instructional Standards
• Certain instructional standards must be in place
  for meaningful and authentic teaching and
  learning to occur.
• Student achievement increases when these
  standards of instruction are implemented.

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Effective Teaching Learning

• Task
• Evaluate one of the topics you are teaching
  currently in the light of the 6 effective
  teaching and learning principles discussed today.
  What can you see?

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Effective Teaching Learning

• THE END
• Question Time