MCPS Religious Literacy for Educators 2023

Part 1: Introduction

Thank you for your participation in this survey. We created an anonymous survey to capture a pre and post snapshot of participant knowledge to help us plan and prepare for this and future workshops.

ID Number(Required)

Please create a 4 digit personal ID number using the following formula: Two-digit day of your birthday followed by the the last two digits of your phone number. For example, if your birthday is on June 6th and your phone number is 823-555-3423, your ID number would be 0623. You will be asked to use this same ID number on the post-course survey. This allows us to compare your answers on the two surveys without requiring any other personally identifying information.

Please enter a number less than or equal to 9999.

What is your specific role or title?

What is your current religious or spiritual identity or affiliation, if any?

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In your own words, how would you define religious literacy?(Required)

Part 2: Interest in this Course

You may use this space to provide additional information on why you wanted to attend Religious Literacy for Educators:

Complete this sentence: I am motivated to learn about religious literacy because....

Please provide an example or more details about one of the items you checked above:

Part 3: Prior Knowledge and Experience

Use this space to provide any details about your previous experiences learning about religion:

What was the context or purpose of your past visits to other religious communities?

Part 4: Religious Literacy

These questions ask you to think about religion as a general concept. Consider to what degree you agree or disagree with each of the statements.

Part 5: Religious Literacy

This section asks you about your current level of knowledge about the specific religious traditions that will be discussed during this course. The religions are listed here in the order they will be introduced in the course.

What specific questions do you have about any of these religions, religion in public schools, or about religion in general?

Part 6: Religious Literacy

The next set of questions ask you think about your current comfort level with religion in the school setting. How confident are you in each other following situations?