Stories from the Front
Wabash Center Blog: Stories from the Front (of the Classroom)
Posts from 2014 to 2016
This blog series features timely posts from invited authors through the course of a semester or academic year.
In the meantime, you can engage dozens of posts from the following authors
- Nancy Lynne Westfield (Drew Theological School)
- Claudio Carvalhaes (McCormick Theological Seminary)
- Tat-Siong Benny Liew (College of the Holy Cross)
- Molly Bassett (Georgia State University)
- Derek Nelson (Wabash College)
- Kate Blanchard (Alma College )
- Eric D. Barreto (Princeton Seminary)
- Roger S. Nam (Portland Seminary, George Fox University)
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Crunch Time
Blog Series: Stories from the Front
December 09, 2014
Tags: student assignments | assessing learning | course design
Is anyone else out there taken by surprise, year after year, at how absurdly crazy the weeks feel between AAR and winter break? I’m not complaining – I just had a wonderful time with 10,000 religion nerds in sunny San Diego (which included a video shoot with my two fellow bloggers) ...
Teaching #Ferguson
Blog Series: Stories from the Front
December 02, 2014
Tags: teaching for transformation | racism | anti-racism | theological education
Ferguson is revelatory. “I wanted to comment on the tragic rift that we’re witnessing,” Bob Staake says about his cover for the December 8th issue of The New Yorker, arriving next week. “I lived in St. Louis for seventeen years before moving to Massachusetts, so watching the news right ...
(Eric) I’ve started wondering recently if scholarship boils down to the courage to say something aloud, the courage to say something in the midst of a chorus full of others saying similar or different things. This same description could well be applied to teaching as well. There are a ...
Three Lessons from the World’s Hardest Examination
Blog Series: Stories from the Front
November 18, 2014
Tags: assessment | assessing students | assessing learning
Last week, 640,621 high school seniors took the Korean university entrance exam, officially translated into English as the “Collegiate Scholastic Ability Test.” Let me give you a little insight into the life of a high school senior in South Korea. How Serious Is This Exam? Businesses, government agencies, even the Korean ...
When Our Students Teach Us
Blog Series: Stories from the Front
November 11, 2014
Tags: collaborative learning | engaged teaching | embodied teaching
I recently found myself on a Friday night amid a group of twenty-somethings, mostly women, who were celebrating their periods. Yes, you read that correctly. The students of the women’s resource center on campus decided to host a “menarche party” in honor of their monthly bleeding. They wore festive ...