Bismillah.
Alhamdulilah, we have been blessed with the opportunity to cover Inara content with homeschooling middle and high-schoolers, Islamic and public high school students, Dar al-Ulum students and even under- and post-graduate students at Stanford University. In every setting I learn something new from the students, and thoroughly enjoyed the conversations we had in class.
We have been privileged, by Allah’s grace alone, to have seen that moment when the light that every Muslim has in their heart engulfs all they have learned through their “secular” studies—that moment when the secular/Islamic split starts to melt away. This moment is seen in their eyes, in their smiles and in their comments (you can look at the testimonial page here to get a glimpse of that).
Over the 2022-2023 year I have been teaching this material once a week to a home-schooling co-op my children participate in, and this Winter 2023, we completed our first, publicly offered Inara Foundations Intensive alhamdulillah! It was an intimate group of high-schoolers, some home-schooled, some Islamic schooled, and one of them attending public school—they were courageously willing to give 3 hours a day for five days from their winter break!
Though the essence of this content is in the discussion in the class, I do use the occasional quiz and reading assignment to help me get a sense of how well the students are comprehending the material (and how effective I have been as a teacher). I thought I would share a few snapshots of those quizzes here.
This first quiz (screen shot of the first page below) was given to my year-long co-op class in the first course, “Foundations”. The second quiz was from the second course, “Introduction to Sciences” (screen shot also below). These students took the entire two courses as pre-requisites to taking future Inara classes, and at this time I am doing Biology with this cohort. But more on that in another post!
