What are the Safar Teacher's Guides?

• The Teachers Guide is a structured plan that outlines what to teach during Islamic Studies lessons across the academic year. It is designed to complement Safar Publications' textbooks and workbooks, helping teachers deliver each lesson effectively.
• The Teachers Guide is organised by term, making it easier to plan assessments, follow a consistent structure, and access the key components needed to teach the Learn about Islam series. More than just a lesson plan, it includes practical advice, teaching tips, and ideas to make learning engaging, meaningful, and connected to prior knowledge. This makes the Teachers Guide an essential companion for every teacher.
• It can also be used as a working document, printed in A4 format, allowing teachers to annotate, plan ahead, and make notes throughout the year.

Why should I use the Safar Teachers Guide?

The Safar Teachers Guide includes the following key features:

• Clear learning objectives and outcomes for each lesson. These are also differentiated to support varying levels of student ability. You’ll find:
  • Objectives that all students are expected to achieve
  • Objectives that most students should be encouraged to meet
  • Objectives that some, particularly more able students, may be guided towards achieving

Here is an example:

Engaging Activity Ideas

• The Safar Teachers Guide includes a variety of activity ideas to support teaching each lesson in the classroom. Activities are varied in both length (with timing guidelines provided) and type, whether they are intended as a starter, main task, or summary (plenary) activity to close the lesson.

  The activities also cater to different learning styles — some are active and practical, others involve group or individual work, while some are more reflective, visual or auditory in nature. Each activity is accompanied by detailed notes to guide you in its delivery.

  You can see some examples below:

• Links to previous learning. The guides will also contain, where relevant, links to previous taught materials so you can link a student's learning in a interesting and thoughtful way.

• The Safar Teachers Guide also offers additional notes and teaching advice where needed, including suggestions for creating resources to use in the classroom. Think of these as helpful reminders and practical tips to support your lesson delivery. For example:

• Ideas for making lessons meaningful. To inspire you even further, we have also ideas for making learning relevant to contemporary issues, as well as using other forms of learning, such experiential learning:

• Extended project and homework. We have also provided ideas for extending the learning into projects and other homework.

• Assessments and testing. Our Schemes of Work also contain advice on testing and assessment as well as where you can use features and elements in the workbooks:

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