2019-20 Early Career Workshop

Description

Do you wonder about teaching and the teaching life in theological education? In what ways would a yearlong conversation about teaching and learning ground your vocational identity? This workshop is a collaborative peer opportunity to develop pedagogical skills, reflect on teaching identity, learn in community, and navigate institutional dynamics.

The workshop will gather 14 faculty members for a week in two successive summers at Wabash College, and a weekend winter retreat in Corpus Christi, Texas. There will be a balance of plenary sessions, small group discussions, workshop sessions, structured and unstructured social time, and time for relaxation, exercise, meditation, discovery, laughter, and lots of good food and drink.

Dates

• First session:
  July 15-20, 2019, Wabash College
• Second session:
  January 23-26, 2020, Corpus Christi, Texas
• Third session:
  June 8-13, 2020, Online

Leadership Team

• Joretta Marshall (Director)
  Brite Divinity School
• Carlos Cardoza-Orlandi
  Baylor University
• Stephanie Crumpton
  McCormick Theological Seminary
• G. Brooke Lester
  Garrett-Evangelical Theological School
• Paul Myhre
  Wabash Center

Workshop Goals

• Explore and develop holistic dimensions of the teaching life
• Imagine and discern contours of agency in a teaching identity
• Identify and strategically navigate transitions in the vocation of a full-time scholar and teacher
• Become aware of the power of embodiment in teaching
• Develop a stronger self-reflexive practice

Eligibility

• 2-5 years of teaching in a tenure-track, contingency, or continuing position,
• Teaching in an accredited seminary or theological school in the United States, Puerto Rico, or Canada
• Doctoral degree completed by January 1, 2019
• Tenure decision (if applicable) no earlier than Spring 2020
• Institutional support to participate fully in sessions and to complete teaching fellowship project in following year.

Honorarium and Fellowship

Participants will receive an honorarium of $3,500 for full participation in the three workshop sessions, plus local expenses and travel. In addition, participants are eligible to apply for a $5,000 workshop fellowship for work on a teaching project during the following academic year (2020-21).

• Read More about Payment of Participants
• Read More about the Workshop Fellowship Program

Participants 

Front Row: *G. Brooke Lester (Garrett-Evangelical Theological School), Melva Sampson (Wake Forest University Divinity School), *Joretta Marshall (Brite Divinity School), Richard Voelz (Union Presbyterian Seminary), Maureen Day (Franciscan School of Theology).

Middle Row: Sarah Wolf (Jewish Theological Seminary of America), Elaine Nogueira-Godsey (Methodist Theological School in Ohio), Lisa Cleath (Portland Seminary), Melody Maxwell (Acadia Divinity College), Barbara Fears (Howard University), *Stephanie Crumpton (McCormick Theological Seminary), Melanie Dobson (Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary), Khalia Williams (Candler School of Theology – Emory University), *Paul Myhre (Wabash Center).

Back Row: *Carlos Cardoza-Orlandi (Baylor University), James Estes (Wesley Theological Seminary), Rebecca Copeland (Boston University School of Theology), Annie Lockhart-Gilroy (Phillips Theological Seminary), Ben Sanders (Eden Theological Seminary).

*leadership/staff

• Lisa Cleath – “Embodied Collaborative Approaches to Critical Race Consciousness and the Bible”
• Rebecca Copeland – “Flipping the Classroom to Increase Student Engagement in the Large-Enrollment Survey ‘Introduction to Christian Traditions'”
• Maureen Day – “Integrating Teaching and Research to Foster Student Engagement: A Case in Ethics and Sociology” 
• Melanie Dobson – “Dynamic Lecturing in a Flipped Classroom during a Pandemic”
• James Estes – “Teaching Church History: Meaning-Centered Pedagogy and Theological Education”
• Barbara Fears – “Problem-Posing Pedagogy for Enhancing Integrative Competence & Written Communication”
• Annie Lockhart-Gilroy – “Using Ubuntu as a Pedagogical Paradigm in Online Asynchronous Classes”
• Elaine Nogueira-Godsey – “Greening Introduction to Theology”
• Ben Sanders – “From Talk to Action: Enhancing Antiracist Teaching and Learning Through Transformative Learning Objectives”
• Richard Voelz – “Poetic Justice/Justice Poetics: Teaching Students How to Use Just and Inclusive Language in Preaching and Worship”
• Khalia Williams – “Inhale … Exhale: Developing a Breath-Centered Pedagogy”
• Sarah Wolf – “A Compelling Introduction to Rabbinic Literature for Educators in Training”