Programs

Page Contents:

Curriculum Policy Documents
– Kindergarten
– Elementary
– Secondary
– Philosophy
Programs
– Kindergarten
–Program Support Resources
– Elementary
— Growing in Faith, Growing in Christ Series (Pearson Canada)
— CARFLEO Elementary Support Resources
— Born of the Spirit Series
– Secondary
– Philosophy
Assessment and Reporting
Big Ideas and Critical Expectations
RCCDSB Religious Education Pages

Curriculum Policy Documents

Kindergarten

Ontario Curriculum: Kindergarten Curriculum Links
(Ministry of Education’s Kindergarten Curriculum Policy Document and Growing Success Kindergarten Addendum for assessment and evaluation)

Elementary

Elementary Religious Education Curriculum Policy Document Links and Resources: Religious Education – Programs Page
Elementary Family Life Education Curriculum Policy Document Links and Resources: Family Life Education – Programs Page
Downloadable from Institute for Catholic Education’s Catholic Curriculum Page
Documents also accessible via ICE Publications Page.
Inservicing Resources
RCCDSB Powerpoint Presentations:
1. Introduction
2. Instructional Approach & Strategies
Additional Inservicing Resources
(From Central Curriculum Cooperative Catholic Resources Page)
INTRODUCTORY ACTIVITIES FOR TEACHERS & ADMINISTRATORS User Guide
(Prepared by Members of the Faith in Education Council, Catholic Curriculum Corporation
for The Institute for Catholic Education. Spring 2013)
Module A – Introduction Speaker Notes
Module A – Placemat
Module B – New Evangelization Speaker Notes
Module B – Graphic Organizer
Module C – Six Strands Speaker Notes
Module C – Placemat

Secondary

Ontario Catholic Secondary Curriculum Policy Document Grades 9-12 for Religious Education.
(This new curriculum policy document will be gradually phased in during 2018, and fully implemented in September 2018)
2006 Curriculum Policy Document
Link to the previous (2006) Secondary curriculum policy document can be found here, published by the Institute for Catholic Education.

Philosophy

Course expectations for Philosophy (HZT 4U) can be found in the Policy Document for Social Sciences and the Humanities.

Programs

Kindergarten

Program Support Resources
NEW: Observing, Documenting and Communicating Learning in Kindergarten in our Catholic Community
(EOCCC, November 2017)

Elementary

Growing in Faith, Growing in Christ Series (Pearson Canada)

Renfrew County CDSB has purchased Grades 1 – 3 in Pearson Canada’s Growing in Faith, Growing in Christ (GFGC) series. Grade 4 will be purchased late Fall, 2018. Purchase includes:
– print materials (manuals, texts, big books [Gr 1 & 2], posters)
– licenses for digital resources (text, interactive student materials, adult faith modules for teachers).
System-wide purchases will continue each year as new grades are published.
Pearson Web Portals for Program Resources (licensed access codes required)
Teacher Website
Student Website
Pearson Combined Grades Teaching Guides
Note: Pearson has combined grades resources on their Web Portal pages (directly above). Login and password information on RCCDSB Staff Resources Web Page behind board firewall.
If you are an RCCDSB employee and need the link, send me a note, and I’ll be happy to send it to you (tcosentino@rccdsb.edu.on.ca).

CARFLEO Support Resources

CARFLEO website
(Catholic Association of Religious and Family Life Educators of Ontario)
Grade 6, 7 & 8 Religious Ed
Grade 6 Religion Resources from Huron Superior Catholic Board
(Authored by Sister Pat Carter, and hosted on CARFLEO website)
Grade 7 Religion Resources from Huron Superior Catholic Board
(Authored by Sister Pat Carter, and hosted on CARFLEO website)
Grade 8 Religion Resources from Huron Superior Catholic Board
(Authored by Sister Pat Carter, and hosted on CARFLEO website)
“We Have Neither Silver Nor Gold”: Sample Grade 7 & 8 Lessons and Units For Implementing the Religious Education Curriculum Policy Document 2012
(Excellent social justice resource with lesson plans from Central Curriculum Corporation)

Resources to support sacramental preparation can be found at our Sacramental Resources Page.

Born of the Spirit Series

Text ordering information for the Born of the Spirit Series for elementary Religious Education can be found at the CCCB Publications Website.

Grade 5: May We Be One
“I believe in the Holy Catholic Church” (Apostles’ Creed)
Year 5 is centered on the Church as community of God’s people drawn from all nations on earth. Here, Jesus is present, active and visible in the Church’s witness to him in the power of the Holy Spirit. In this way, the Church is sacrament of God’s saving love.
Teacher’s Manual Student Text Music CD
Links:
CARFLEO Grade Five Links

Grade 6: You Shall be My Witnesses
This year focuses on the moral life of young Christians. The program is based on the bible, beginning with the notion of ourselves created in God’s image, moving through to explore God’s Covenant love for us from the Exodus story, and onward to how Jesus’ Gospel teaching calls us to a witness of love, justice and compassion.
Teacher Manual Student Text Music CD
Links:
CARFLEO Grade Six Links

Grade 7: Believe in Me
This program is based on the first part of the Apostles’ Creed. Each statement of the Creed is examined in light of the experiences and day-to-day challenges students experience in striving to live as members of the Spirit-filled community we call the Church. Year 7 seeks to help students grow in Christian maturity through discussion of issues they face as young members of the Church, led through the witness and guidance of the teacher. (Learning cycle: Experience-Information-Application-Action)
Teacher Manual Student Text Music CD
Links:
CARFLEO Grade 7 Links
Global Awareness, Local Action: Building Respect for God’s Creation. A Cross-Curricular Project for Grade Seven Students
(EOCCC, 2010)

Grade 8: Stand by Me
This program continues with the second part of the Apostles’ Creed (We believe in the Holy Spirit…). Again, students are invited to examine what it means to live a maturing faith as captured in the second half of the Creed with discussion, reflection on what the Church teaches, prayer and connecting with one’s own parish. As is the case with all our religious education programs, the faith life of the teacher will do much to make students’ experience of this course meaningful. (Learning cycle: Experience-Information-Application-Action)
Teacher Manual Student Text Music CD
Links:
CARFLEO Grade Eight Links

Grade 9: Be With Me
This program continues from the previous two years’ considerations on the Apostles’ Creed. It invites young people to cultivate the virtues of Christian faith, hope and love according to the Beatitudes and Ten Commandments in order to meaningfully live the faith of the Apostles’ Creed as followers of Jesus in the Spirit-filled community of believers. This is a program which invites students to evaluate lifestyle choices in light of their call to live by the Gospel of Jesus. (Learning cycle: Experience-Information-Application-Action)
Be With Me Year 9 Student Text
(CCCB Publications)
Be With Me Year 9 Teacher Manual
(CCCB Publications)
Links:
CARFLEO Grade Nine Links
Be With Me On My Path. Activities for Education and Career/Life Planning in HRE 1.0
(EOCCC, 2015)
Course Profile:
Grade 9 Religious Education Course Profile

Combined Grades Teaching Guides (Toronto Catholic School Board)
Grade 1-2
Grade 2-3
Grade 3-4
Grade 4-5
Grade 5-6
Grade 6-7
Grade 7-8

“Big Ideas” and Critical Expectations (Compiled by Brad Moleski, Ottawa Catholic School Board)
(Note: these were compiled before release of Growing in Faith, Growing in Christ elementary program, and 2016 Secondary Rel Ed Curriculum Policy Document)
“Big Ideas” of Religious Education (K – 12)
Grade 7 Religion – Believe in Me: CRITICAL OUTCOMES AND KEY CONCEPTS
Grade 8 Religion – Stand by Me: CRITICAL OUTCOMES AND KEY CONCEPTS

Secondary

NEW: Program Support Resources
(Downloadable from Institute for Catholic Education’s Resources for Secondary Teachers Page)
Grade 9: Discipleship & Culture (Open)
Grade 9: Religious Education Resource Slide Presentation

Grade 10: Christ & Culture (Open)
Grade 10: Religious Education Resource Slide Presentation

Grade 11: Faith & Culture (Open)
Grade 11: Faith & Culture (University/College)
Grade 11: Religious Education Resource Slide Presentation

Grade 12: Church & Culture (Open)
Grade 12: Forgiveness & Reconciliation Slide Presentation
Grade 12: Sin – Definitions, Types, Diagrams Presentation

Grade 12: Church & Culture (University/College)
Grade 12: Church & Culture Gap Analysis for Text, In Search of the Good

Grade Nine: Be With Me
Be With Me Year 9 Student Text
(CCCB Publications)
Be With Me Year 9 Teacher Manual
(CCCB Publications)
Links:
CARFLEO Grade Nine Links
Be With Me On My Path. Activities for Education and Career/Life Planning in HRE 1.0
(EOCCC, 2015)
Course Profile:
Grade 9 Religious Education Course Profile

Grade Ten: Christ in Culture
The Christ in Culture program continues building on the Grade 9 Be With Me program. Students are invited to consider themselves from a Christ-centered perspective, and to examine the social, religious and political dimensions of their role in bringing the values of Christ and his Gospel to the culture of their milieu.
Christ and Culture Student Textbook
(CCCB Publications)
Christ and Culture Year 10 Manual
(CCCB Publications)
Links:
CARFLEO Grade Ten Links
Course Profile:
Grade 10 Religious Education Course Profile

Grade Eleven: World Religions
The World Religions courses offered in our Catholic schools invite students to consider how the human search for religious meaning is experienced by members of the world’s four great faiths (Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism and Buddhism), and Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples. This course will help students appreciate the heritage of their Christian faith, with a deepened respect for the role these great religions have played in the development of the world’s civilizations and the faith of their peoples.
RCCDSB World Religions Resource Page
Course Texts:
World Religions: A Canadian Catholic Perspective (Nelson/Novalis, 2010)
World Religions. A Canadian Catholic Perspective Student Text
(Jointly Published by Novalis and Nelson Publishing)
World Religions. A Canadian Catholic Perspective Teacher Manual
(Jointly Published by Novalis and Nelson Publishing)
Nelson supplemental powerpoint presentations and digital resources for World Religions. A Canadian Catholic Perspective.
Exploring World Religions: The Canadian Perspective
(Oxford University Press).
World Religions: A Voyage of Discovery by Jeffrey Brodd
(St. Mary’s Press).
World Religions: People and Faith. by Larry Trafford
(Toronto, ON: Maxwell Macmillan Canada, 1994)
Course Profile:
Grade 11 Religious Education Course Profile
(From CARFLEO.com website)
Links:
CARFLEO Grade Eleven Links
ReligiousTolerance.org World Religions Site
(Basic information on world religions Presented in Canadian context)
A Rule Made of Gold Scarboro Missions Golden Rule Curriculum
by Gregory McKenna
Scarboro Missions Golden Rule Poster
Scarboro Missions Golden Rule – Thirteen Sacred Texts
Interfaith Calendar of Sacred Times for World Religions

Grade Twelve: In Search of the Good. A Catholic Understanding of Moral Living
This program focuses on what it means to live a moral life, according to Scripture, Tradition and ethical theories of key philosophers and theologians. Students are invited to consider the core elements of the Christian moral life in dialogue with their lived experience to grow as disciples and agents of Christ’s transforming presence in the world.
Church and Culture Grade 12 Student Text
(CCCB Publications)
Church and Culture Grade 12 Teacher Manual
(CCCB Publications)
Grade 12 Open Religious Education Teacher Resource Manual
(OECTA PD Steering Committee, 2010)
Course Profile:
Grade 12 Religious Education Course Profile
Links:
CARFLEO Grade Twelve Links

Grade Twelve: Parenting and Human Development: A Catholic Approach
This course was designed in the Halton Catholic School Board to provide a senior level Religious Education curriculum that meets the needs of workplace-bound students in our Catholic high schools. As of September, 2005, it is being offered in the Renfrew County Catholic School Board as well. This course will provide our workplace-bound students an opportunity to grow in their Catholic faith by examining how it is to be lived within the commitments of family, workplace and social environment. One of the strengths of this course lies in the time it provides for candidates to take time each week to work with an elementary student who needs assistance. This experience gives candidates a forum out of which they can consider the practical implications of choices they will make as parents, care-givers and persons with responsibility within the community. Conducted within an atmosphere of reflecting on their Catholic faith in the light of day-to-day experience, this course affirms students’ giftedness and potential and challenges them to make sound life decisions as followers of Christ.