PROPHETIC PEDAGOGY: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP
August 10 - September 10, 2020
Online
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A note about virtual learning: Each session will address the unique realities of teaching virtually, share strategies for keeping students engaged online and share how we can embody the Prophet’s teaching style in a virtual space.

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ABOUT THE PROGRAM

Prophetic Pedagogy explores the teaching styles of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) as found in the Qur'an and Sunnah, and complements them with contemporary research on teaching and learning for an Islamic school context.  

Prophetic Pedagogy project seeks to provide Islamic school educators with tools, practices, and concepts to help shape education within Islamic schools today.  We want educators to be fully equipped to teach the Message of Allah in a global context that doesn’t support faith-based identities, just as the Prophet experienced.  We want educators to lead the youth in understanding how to resist oppression and disrupt injustices around them, just as the Prophet demonstrated.  And we want educators to be fully engaged in the realities of today’s context, just as the Prophet was fully engaged in his contextual reality.  Our educators need to be able to teach students through technology,  who struggle with their identity, and who face challenges with social norms and practices.  We feel that with a systematic examination of the Prophet’s pedagogy, we will be able to advance teaching practices that can transform today’s Islamic schools to be the schools that Muslims need in today’s day and age.

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INSTRUCTORS

Shaykh ​Abdalla Idris Ali served as imam and director, and founded the first full-time Islamic school in Toronto, Canada. He served as the principal of ISNA Islamic Community School for 17 years. He also served on ISNA’s Executive Council, Majlis Ash-Shura, Youth and Education Committee and as president of ISNA for two terms. He is the chair of the Islamic Media Foundation, a member of NAIT Board, a founding member of CISNA, and chair of ISNA Education Forum. Sheikh Abdalla was appointed director for CIENA in Kansas City, Missouri. He served on the board of trustees of IBERR, which serves minority communities. He is currently working as Senior Community and Religious Advisor at ISNA Canada.

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Amaarah DeCuir, Ed.D., is an executive board member of CICW, and a designer of the teacher training program. She is a professorial lecturer in the School of Education at American University in Washington, DC. Dr. DeCuir is an Education Leadership scholar whose work, broadly speaking, focuses on the intersections of leadership, gender, and diverse cultural contexts to advance social justice. She has a bachelor's degree from the University of California at Berkeley, an M.Ed. from Howard University and an Ed.D. from George Washington University. With over 20 years of P-20 teaching and leadership experiences, she uses her work to impact praxis and scholarship.

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Rehenuma Asmi, Ph.D., is an executive board member of CICW, and a designer of the teacher training program. She received her bachelors from Georgetown University in Arabic and Government and her Masters in Teaching from American University. She is a graduate of the Columbia University Teachers College where she received a Ph.D. in Anthropology and Education for her doctoral work on education reform and multiculturalism in Qatar. She served as Assistant Professor of Religion and Education at Allegheny College from 2013-7. Dr. Asmi's research interests include multi-cultural and faith based education as well as the socio-cultural effects of education on Muslim women and family life. 

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SCHEDULE

Every Monday and Thursday
​August 10 - September 10, 2020
4:00-5:30 PM EST

Session 1 (August 10th): Teaching in Times of Social Change: Introduction to Prophetic Pedagogy Project (teachers/students) 
Session 2 (August 13th): Shaykh Abdalla - 10 Things Every Islamic School Teacher Must Know
Session 3 (August 17th): Dr. Amaarah - Imam Ghazali's Guidance for Teachers 
Session 4 (August 20th): Dr. Rehenuma - The Power of the Halaqa- Circles of Learning and Situated Learning Theory
Session 5 (August 24th): Dr. Rehenuma and Shaykh Abdalla - Repetition as Renewal
Session 6 (August 27th) : Dr. Amaarah and Shaykh Abdalla - Questioning in the Qur'an and Sunnah
Session 7 (August 31st): Shaykh Abdalla and Dr. Rehenuma -  Apprenticeship:  The Prophet and Mu'adh Ibn Jabal
Session 8 (September 3rd) : Shaykh Abdalla - Storytelling as a Teaching Tool

SPECIAL SESSIONS

Session 9 (September 7th) : Dr. Amaarah and Dr. Rehenuma + Guest Speakers - The Prophet on Equity and Anti-Racism
Session 10 (September 10th): Sh. Abdalla, Dr. Rehenuma, Dr. Amaarah & Rana Khalaf - Teaching through Trauma​

SPECIAL SESSIONS INSTRUCTORS

 Rana Khalaf Is a Community Educator at The Family and Youth Institute.   She holds a Master’s in Educational Psychology and a post-graduate   degree in principal-ship and K-12 school administration. She has served   as a parent coordinator then as the dean of students in schools in   Dearborn, Michigan.  Currently, she is the principal in Frontier International   Academy, a K-5 school in Warren, Michigan.

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REGISTRATION
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