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Integrating Body, Mind, and Spirit in the Classroom: Holistic Teaching for Holistic Preaching
Proposal abstract :
As early career teachers, we have both experienced insecurity and fear in our classrooms that brings us out of our bodies and disconnects us from our sense of God and people. We will take steps toward overcoming this disconnection because we believe that teaching (and preaching) is strongest when the whole person is present. Our partial presence inhibits our ability to 1) draw from the fullness of our experience in our teaching, 2) empathetically and organically meet and engage with our students as people, and 3) welcome and hold space for their whole selves in the classroom. We also observed a need to develop bodily awareness in many of our students, including 1) an awareness of the role their bodies play in scriptural exegesis, 2) an ability to empathetically meet and engage the bodies in front of them as they preach, and 3) an awareness of the bodies who are not in the room.
Learning Abstract :
Project Goals
● Pursue concentrated and regular practices that strengthen our connection with our own bodies
● Learn and implement pedagogical practices to help our students strengthen their connection with their bodies
As early career teachers, we have both experienced insecurity and fear in our classrooms that brings us out of our bodies and disconnects us from our sense of God and people. We will take steps toward overcoming this disconnection because we believe that teaching (and preaching) is strongest when the whole person is present. Our partial presence inhibits our ability to 1) draw from the fullness of our experience in our teaching, 2) empathetically and organically meet and engage with our students as people, and 3) welcome and hold space for their whole selves in the classroom. We also observed a need to develop bodily awareness in many of our students, including 1) an awareness of the role their bodies play in scriptural exegesis, 2) an ability to empathetically meet and engage the bodies in front of them as they preach, and 3) an awareness of the bodies who are not in the room.
Learning Abstract :
Project Goals
● Pursue concentrated and regular practices that strengthen our connection with our own bodies
● Learn and implement pedagogical practices to help our students strengthen their connection with their bodies