Other workshops correspond to CIE s various publications and teaching units. Thousand of educators throughout the United States have participated in CIE s workshops. Contact CIE in order to schedule a workshop for your district, school, or organization. Firstly, an overview of the basic beliefs and practices in Islam provides educators with a useful framework for covering Islam in the context of world history studies. Furthermore, prevailing ground rules for teaching about religion are discussed in regards to Islam.
Participants also receive practical insights and guidelines for avoiding miseducation.
Sample resources and lesson plans from CIE publications are provided as well. Questions are encouraged throughout the workshop. For example, in California, teaching about Islam is called for in the seventh and tenth grade history-social studies curricula. CIE s workshop is designed to help educators meet the challenge of teaching about Islam according to curricular requirements and in accordance with prevailing ground rules for covering religion, which call for accuracy, balance and sensitivity. Furthermore, insights are provided on how to cover issues such as jihad , Islam s relationship with other monotheistic traditions, rights and responsibilities of men and women in Islam, the relationship between religion and culture in the lives of Muslims, and the experience of Muslims in North America.