How do I use the Safar Teacher's Guides?

The Safar Teacher’s Guides are structured teaching companions designed to support educators in delivering the Safar Islamic Studies curriculum with clarity, confidence and creativity. More than just a termly plan, they provide a practical roadmap that helps ensure every lesson is purposeful, engaging and connected to broader learning goals — both in the classroom and at home.

Why Lesson Planning Matters

Lesson planning plays a crucial role in effective madrasah teaching. It:

• Keeps lessons structured and focused
• Helps track progress toward learning objectives
• Encourages teaching consistency
• Builds teacher confidence
• Supports planning for different learner needs
• Promotes home engagement and parental involvement

What the Teacher’s Guides Offer

Each Teacher’s Guide supports you with:

🧭 Structured Weekly Plans

Each textbook is mapped across the academic year (30 weeks + 2 for assessments), allowing you to plan effectively while retaining flexibility. You are free to re-sequence or adjust lesson durations based on your class needs.

🎯 Differentiated Learning Objectives

For every chapter, clear objectives are provided and split into:

• All students will...
• Most students should...

• Some students could...

  This helps you cater to different learning levels within your classroom.

🛠 Starter, Main and Summary Activities

Each lesson includes suggested activity ideas with timing guidelines — all designed to suit visual, auditory and kinaesthetic learners. Activities may include role-play, group work, practical tasks or reflective exercises.

🔄 Links to Prior Learning

Where relevant, lessons make connections with previously taught topics to aid reinforcement and ensure a cohesive syllabus journey.📚 Workbook IntegrationWorkbooks are aligned with the lessons and offer both standard and advanced tasks. Teachers can choose to use these in class or assign them for homework.📝 Assessment GuidanceSuggestions are provided for mid-term and end-of-year testing, along with informal, creative and group-based assessments to capture student progress in various ways.

📢 Parent and Home Engagement

Guides highlight opportunities to take learning beyond the classroom — through research tasks, creative projects, or interviews with family members. These help reinforce the idea that Islamic education is lived, not just learned.

Using the Teacher’s Guide in Practice

1. Read the lesson overview and familiarise yourself with the learning objectives and outcomes.
2. Select appropriate activities from the options provided (starter, main, summary), tailoring them to your students.
3. Prepare any resources in advance, including visuals, props, maps, nasheeds or discussion prompts.
4. Adapt and personalise — you know your learners best. Use what’s provided as a foundation, not a script.
5. Track what worked and what didn’t, and share your feedback and ideas with Safar to improve future guides.

💡 A printable lesson plan template is included at the back of the guide to support your weekly planning.

Sample Lesson:

📖 You can view sample pages of the Teacher’s Guides here.

Where to Find More Resources?

Visit the Safar Teacher’s Toolbox, our online resource hub where madrasah teachers from around the world upload ideas, worksheets, visual aids, and more — all categorised by topic, book and age group.