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Doubting and Trusting My Teaching Vocation
Blog Series: Changing Scholarship
August 28, 2023
Tags: vocation | prompts | syllabus | Changing Scholarship | PHD | Cohort
“It’s like you’re crying out for them to trust you.” These insightful words were said to me nearly 10 years ago in a small group conversation at a Wabash Workshop for Pre-Tenure Theological School Faculty. I remember the conversation with gratitude. We were sharing with each other what we ...
When Teaching Pivots to Meet the “Fierce Urgency of Now”
Blog Series: Praxis: The Responsive & Expanding Classroom | The Pivot
April 02, 2021
Tags: student centered learning | syllabus | ANTI-ASIAN VIOLENCE | CLASSROOM COLLABORATION | CONSERVATIVE SEMINARY TRAINING | COURSE CONTENT | MARTIN LUTHER KING | JR. | PIVOT
For the past twelve months, I have made several pivots in my teaching to meet what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. identified in his 1967 speech on the war in Vietnam at The Riverside Church in New York City as “the fierce urgency of now.” Dr. King began by affirming the ...
During the past year, two of my favorite Brazilian writers and educators, Luiz Antonio Simas and Luiz Rufino collaborated on yet another book: Encantamento: Sobre a Política da Vida (Incantation: On the Politics of Life). One of the central affirmations of their work (which follows their previous co-authored publications: ...
A 2020 course by Manasicha Akepiyapornchai at Cornell University "explores the Bhagavadgītā in different aspects to answer the question of how powerful a religious text can be. We will discuss how translations, commentaries, biographies, and scholarly sources shape the Bhagavadgītā and contribute to its popularity in the premodern and contemporary histories."
The Last Thing You Want to Do Is Create An Online Course
Blog Series: Online Teaching, Online Learning
May 07, 2020
Tags: online teaching | online learning | online design | syllabus
There’s no one way to go about developing a course. More often than not, it’s an individualized process driven by standards, one’s academic field, the course intent, and personal preferences, and habits. Below is one way to approach the development of your online or hybrid course. FIRST ...