2015-16 Early Career Workshop for
Theological School Faculty

Description

This workshop will gather 14 faculty members in their first years of teaching for a week in two successive summers and a weekend winter retreat in a warm location. The purpose of the workshop is to create a community of committed and skilled teachers who will explore the following:

• The crafts and practices of teaching
• A sense of vocational agency in navigating personal commitments, institutional mission, and student learning needs
• Teaching in contexts marked by difference
• The importance of collegiality in sustaining a life of teaching and scholarship
• What’s theological about theological education
• Engaging wider communities in teaching and learning

To this end, the workshop balances plenary sessions with small group discussions and workshop sessions, structured and unstructured social time, and time for relaxation, exercise, meditation, restoration, and lots of good food and drink.

Participants

Front Row (left to right): Michal Beth Dinkler (Yale Divinity School), Jared Alcántara (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School), William Yoo (Columbia Theological Seminary), Jin Young Choi (Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School), Peter T. Cha (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School), Adam Hearlson (Andover Newton Theological School).
Second Row: Natalia Marandiuc, Perkins School of Theology Southern Methodist University), Laurel Koepf Taylor, (Eden Theological Seminary), Mary McClintock Fulkerson (Duke Divinity School), Katherine Turpin (Iliff School of Theology), Brittany Wilson (Duke Divinity School), Paul Cho (Wesley Theological Seminary), Paul O. Myhre (Wabash Center).
Third Row: Victor Carmona (Oblate School of Theology), James Lee (Perkins School of Theology Southern Methodist University), Kathleen McCallie (Phillips Theological Seminary), Carmichael Crutchfield (Memphis Theological Seminary), Nijay Gupta (George Fox Evangelical Seminary), Eric D. Barreto (Luther Seminary.

Workshop Goals

The workshop will equip participants to:

• Inhabit their unique identities as teachers
• Reflect critically on their teaching practices
• Understand and navigate institutional cultures
• Foster relationships that support and sustain them over the year of the workshop and beyond

Stipend

Participants will receive a stipend of $3,400 for full participation in the three sessions, plus local expenses and travel.

• Read More about Stipend Payments
• Read our Policy on Participation

Follow-up Workshop Fellowship

All participants are eligible to apply for a $5,000 fellowship to advance their professional development as teachers. These awards are for projects that emerge from the conversation and ideas of the workshop, in consultation with the leadership team, and are conducted during the year following the workshop.