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The Wabash Center's international peer reviewed journal becomes available online on April 4, 2017. The journal is published quarterly by Wiley-Blackwell. Online and print subscriptions available. The January issue is available for free download throughout the calendar year. Read more about the journal (including links to free content). Publication of "Teaching Theology and Religion" Issue 20:2

Directions to the Wabash Center Be sure that you have notified us if you will be arriving by your own transportation. Rachel Mills (millsr@wabash.edu) 800-655-7117 The Wabash Center is located on the Wabash College campus in Crawfordsville, Indiana, 45 miles northwest of Indianapolis and 150 miles southeast of Chicago. It is conveniently served by Interstate 74 from the east and west, and U.S. 231 from the north and south. The Wabash Center is in the Eastern Time Zone. The Wabash Center offices and meeting space are located across campus from the guest lodging. These directions are to the lodging facility. Wabash Center Lodging: 410 West Wabash Ave Crawfordsville, IN 47933 765-361-6490 From Indianapolis International Airport: Exit the airport on I-70 east toward Indianapolis and I-465. After only several miles, take I-465 north (follow signs to Peoria). After only several miles, take I-74 west (continue following signs for Peoria). In half an hour or so, take exit 39 (Indiana 32). Turn left off the interstate ramp, west on Indiana 32. At approximately 3 miles, bearright at the stop sign and proceed on East Market Street into downtown Crawfordsville. When you've reached downtown, turn left (south) on U.S. 231 (Washington Street). Continue three blocks and turn right on Wabash Avenue. Continue three blocks and the Wabash College campus will appear on the left. About 100 yards from the corner of campus, the main entrance to campus will be on your left, but turn right into the parking lot next to Trippet Hall (a large brick building with broad steps and white pillars, on the right hand side of the road, across from campus). Park and proceed to the front desk of Trippet Hall to check into your guest room. From the East (Indianapolis) Take I-465 North to to the I-65/465 split. Follow the signs for Chicago. Continue on I-65 for approximately 11 miles to the Crawfordsville exit 39 (Indiana 32). Go left off the interstate and continue on Indiana 32 for 22 miles into Crawfordsville. Bearright at the stop sign and proceed on East Market Street into downtown Crawfordsville. When you've reached downtown, turn left (south) on U.S. 231 (Washington Street). Continue three blocks and turn right on Wabash Avenue. Continue three blocks and the Wabash College campus will appear on the left. About 100 yards from the corner, the main entrance to campus will be on your left, but turn right into the parking lot next to Trippet Hall (a large brick building with broad steps and white pillars, on the right hand side of the road, across from campus. Park and proceed to the front desk of Trippet Hall to check into your guest room. From the North (I-65 through Lafayette, Indiana) Exit I-65 at exit # 178 (West Lafayette, Purdue University). Turn right at the end of the exit ramp and continue south on route 43 into West Lafayette. The road becomes route 231. Stay on U.S, 231 south for half an hour (approximately 30 miles) into downtown Crawfordsville. Proceed south to 3rd traffic light in town: Wabash Avenue (you will see a sign for Wabash College on the right). Turn right onto Wabash Avenue, continue three blocks, and the Wabash College campus will appear on the left. About 100 yards from the corner of campus, the main entrance to campus will be on your left, but turn right into the parking lot next to Trippet Hall (a large brick building with broad steps and white pillars, on the right hand side of the road, across from campus). Park and proceed to the front desk of Trippet Hall to check into your guest room. From the South (I-70, through Greencastle) Take U.S. 231 from Greencastle, Indiana, north to Crawfordsville (30 minutes). Proceed north on U.S. 231 (Washington Street) into downtown Crawfordsville. Turn left onto Wabash Avenue, continue three blocks, and the Wabash College campus will appear on the left. About 100 yards from the corner of campus, the main entrance to campus will be on your left, but turn right into the parking lot next to Trippet Hall (a large brick building with broad steps and white pillars, on the right hand side of the road, across from campus). Park and proceed in the front desk of Trippet Hall to check into your guest room. From the West (Illinois) Take I-74 to exit 34 (U.S. 231). Turn right (south) off the interstate exit ramp and proceed into downtown Crawfordsville (five miles). Continue proceeding south to the 3rd traffic light, which is Wabash Avenue (you will see a sign for Wabash College on the right). Turn right onto Wabash Avenue, continue three blocks, and the Wabash College campus will appear on the left. About 100 yards from the corner of campus, the main entrance to campus will be on your left, but turn right into the parking lot next to Trippet Hall (a large brick building with broad steps and white pillars, on the right hand side of the road, across from campus). Park and proceed to the front desk of Trippet Hall to check into your guest room.

Preparatory Documents Graduate Program Teaching Initiative Summative Conference Preparatory Documents Each program prepared two documents that were distributed electronically prior to the conference. Document 1: Teaching Preparation in your Doctoral Program Prepare a brief summary of the teaching preparation aspects of your doctoral program so other institutions can have a good understanding of how it is structured, who is involved, and the various stages the doctoral students go through. This should involve things such as its place in the student's program, how much teaching is involved, how the supervision is structured, whether there is a teaching colloquy or class, how the faculty are trained or oriented, etc. This document should be no longer than 2 pages. Document 2: Summary of Findings from Teaching Initiative Work Prepare a brief summary of your findings from the work of the Teaching Initiative. A refined version of no. 6 in the school's final report can be used for this. Again, this needs to give other institutions a good understanding of what was learned from the visiting alumni/ae as strengths and weaknesses of your program and what steps you have taken or are projecting taking to amend or improve your program. The 2 documents submitted by each program have been combined into a single document. Click on the school name to open and download the pdf from each of the participating programs. 1. Baylor University Documents (pdf) 2. Boston University School of Theology Documents (pdf) 3. Dallas Theological Seminary Documents (pdf) 4.DU/Iliff School of Theology (pdf) 5. Emory University/Candler School of Theology (pdf) 6. Graduate Theological Union (pdf) 7. Jewish Theological Seminary (pdf) 8. Loyola University Chicago (pdf) 9. Marquette University (pdf) 10. McGill University (pdf) 11. McMaster University (pdf) 12. Princeton Theological Seminary (pdf) 13. Southern Methodist University (pdf) 14. Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (pdf) 15. Syracuse University (pdf) 16. University of Notre Dame (pdf) A single pdf of all above documents ( 63 pages) The Summative Conference gathered representatives from 16 doctoral programs that received a grant in 2011 from the Wabash Center to meet with recently graduate doctoral students for structured feedback and conversation on their preparation by the doctoral program for their careers as teachers. More information on the Wabash Center's Graduate Program Teaching Initiative (GPTI)

Wabash Center Educating Clergy Conference Chicago O’Hare Hilton Winter-Spring 2006 Questions for the Conference • Composition and Socialization of Faculty: Where will the faculty you envision come from? How do you bring new faculty into the teaching/learning culture? How are faculty formed as teachers? • Teaching Cultures: Do theological schools have a distinctive pedagogical culture? Are there variations among different types of schools? • Learning Cultures: How does school culture inside and outside the classroom contribute to learning and clergy formation? • Effectiveness: Why—despite “good” teaching—do religious communities and graduates complain about clergy preparation? SCHEDULEDAY 1 12:00 noon Buffet lunch 1:00 pm Session I - Introduction and Research Overview 2:40 pm Break 3:00 pm Session II - From the Beginning: Composition Socialization of Theological and Rabbinical Faculties 4:40 pm Break 5:00 pm Session III - Teaching Cultures 6:30 pm Break 6:45 pm Reception 7:15 pm Dinner SCHEDULE DAY 2 9:00 am Session IV - Learning Cultures 10:30 am Break (checkout) 11:00 am Session V - Is Clergy Education Good Enough? 12:15 pm Lunch 1:15 pm Session VI - Take The Resources—and Run! (Break) 3:15 pm Concluding remarks and feedback 3:30 pm Departure

[row] [column lg="12" md="12" sm="12" xs="12" ] [su_heading]This information is for designated members of the Wabash Center Advisory Committee[/su_heading] [/column] [/row] [row] [column lg="4" md="4" sm="12" xs="12" ] [su_button url=" https://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/about/advisory-committee/ " background="#a6192e" size="3" wide="yes" center="yes" radius="5" text_shadow="0px 0px 0px #FFF" desc="Photograph of Members"]Wabash Center Advisory Committee[/su_button] [/column] [column lg="4" md="4" sm="12" xs="12" ] [su_button url=" https://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/programs/workshops-home/travel-and-accommodations/" background="#a6192e" size="3" wide="yes" center="yes" radius="5" text_shadow="0px 0px 0px #FFF" desc="Flights, Lodging, Directions, etc..."]"Info on Travel and Accomodations[/su_button] [/column] [column lg="4" md="4" sm="12" xs="12" ] [su_button url="https://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/wabash-grants/" background="#a6192e" size="3" wide="yes" center="yes" radius="5" text_shadow="0px 0px 0px #FFF" desc="Mission, Areas of Focus, etc."]Wabash Center Grant Program[/su_button] [/column] [/row] [row] [column lg="12" md="12" sm="12" xs="12" ] The Wabash Center Advisory Committee meets twice a year (in March and October) to consider grant proposals and other matters of business. Serving three year terms. Ground Transportation About a week prior to your travel you will receive an email from Trish Overpeck (overpecp@wabash.edu) with airport shuttle information. This email includes the cell phone number of your driver, where to meet, and fellow participants with arrival times. Please print off these instructions and carry them with you. [/column] [/row]

Highlights from Past Years at the AAR-SBL Conference A Conversation about Starting Conversations about Teaching (2016) In celebration of 20 years of supporting teachers of theology and religion, the Wabash Center hosted this conversation panel of faculty who have participated in Wabash workshops and are now leading projects to promote reflection on teaching at their own institutions. We started with a small panel conversation about the challenges and effective strategies for supporting teachers and how one helps them to critically reflect on their teaching practice, and then enlarged the conversation to everyone in the room. Panelists: 
Thomas Pearson (Wabash Center), 
Brooke Lester (Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary), 
Jocelyn McWhirter (Albion College)
, Kristi Upson-Saia (Occidental College) Graduate Student Lunch” Teach with Confidence: Insights and Advice (2016) Graduate students joined us for lunch and an interactive presentation about teaching in higher education. Panelistsfrom a variety of institutional types and disciplines will shared reflections on such matters as: How does the institution at which you work shape your teaching?Our panelists commented on such topics as teaching undergraduate vs. graduate students; teaching in a public vs. a denominational setting; teaching online vs. in a classroom; and teaching outside your area of expertise. How do the needs and concerns of your students shape your teaching?Our panelists described how they acknowledge such realities as diversity in the classroom; power dynamics in the classroom; and student issues in and beyond the classroom. How do course mechanics and methods shape your teaching?Our panelists offered adviceon such “nuts and bolts” as constructing a syllabus, crafting assignments, and conducting assessment; integrating student evaluation; and the pros and cons of teaching techniques (lectures, discussions, projects, technology, etc.). How does who you are shape your teaching?Our panelists discussed how their commitments (e.g., religious, personal, and political) and qualities (e.g., personality, gender, race) influence how they teach. Dealing with “imposter syndrome” will receive special notice! Panelists: Tamara Lewis (Perkins School of Theology,Southern Methodist University), Jeremy Posadas (Austin College), Robert Rivera (St. John's University, New York), Mary Stimming (Wabash Center) Pre-Conference Workshop: "Teaching for Civic Engagement in Religious and Theological Studies" (2016) Few topics excite greater interest among academics and their many critics than the public, civic purpose of contemporary higher education. But what counts as civic engagement in the university classroom? How do I design effective civic engagement assignments? And what distinctive resources do the disciplines of religious studies and theology have to offer this task? In this 5-hour workshop, participants hadthe opportunity to share expertise, to learn how and why to adopt these sorts of pedagogies, to discover new strategies and heuristic frameworks, and to reflect on issues of accountability and assessment. We started with buffet lunch at noon and concluded with a reception for participants. 
Workshop leaders: Reid Locklin (University of Toronto) and Elizabeth Corrie (Candler School of Theology). Pre-Conference Workshop for ATSI, FTE, HTI and NAIITS Doctoral Students on Teaching and Learning (2015) A gathering of doctoral students associated with ATSI, FTE, HTI, and NAIITS in their final year of studies or at the dissertation writing stage to discuss particular issues about teaching and learning such as:

 What do you want your teaching to do in the world?
Community teaching and learning
. Vocation and institutional contexts. Evaluation and assessment as ways for celebration and reflection on mutual growth. 
Collaboration in the first year(s) of teaching.
 Gifts we leave one another.Leadership Team:
 Elizabeth Conde-Frazier, (Esperanza College), 
Terry LeBlanc (NAIITS), 
Tat-siong Benny Liew (College of the Holy Cross), 
Stephen Ray (Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
). Workshop - Teaching for a Culturally Diverse and Racially Just World (2014) This 90-minutemini-workshop explored specific dimensions of the issues inTeaching for a Culturally Diverse and Racially Just World (edited by Eleazar Fernandez) -- as they pertain to teaching practice and leveraging institutional change. Issues explored involved a range of topics, including: • When SubjectsMatter: The Bodies We Teach By • What Shall We Teach? The Content of Theological Education • Thoughts on Curriculum as Formational Praxis for Faculty, Students, and their Communities • Teaching Disruptively: Pedagogical Strategies to Teaching Cultural Diversity and Race Workshop Leaders: Eleazar Fernandez (United Theological Seminary of Twin Cities), 
Elizabeth Conde Frazier (Esperanza College), 
Willie James Jennings (Duke Divinity School), 
Boyung Lee (Pacific School of Religion), and 
Mai-Anh Le Tran (Eden Theological Seminary) Thinking About Writing About Teaching (2015) Participants in this interactive and hands-on session thought together about how and why various types of writing about teaching become valuable for authors as well as readers who are reflecting on their teaching and student learning. Participants were led through a hands-on, small group interactive process to reflect on their teaching practice and begin to “workshop” an idea for a writing project about teaching. How can writing and reading about teaching support your reflective teaching practice?Leadership: Eugene Gallagher (Connecticut College), 
Martha Stortz (Augsburg College), and 
Thomas Pearson (Wabash Center, Editor ofTeaching Theology and Religion) Pre-Conference Workshop: Teaching Visual Arts in Religious Studies and Theology Classrooms (2014) This workshop provided faculty with various strategies and methods for teaching the visual arts in religious studies and theology classrooms. Participants explore da range of ways by which specific pedagogical methods can help students engage the visual arts as loci for the study of religious studies, theology, ethics, bible, etc.Specific attention was given to the following pedagogical methods: a dialogical method that sees artist, art, and the viewer (theologian, ethicists, whomever) in conversation, drawing on material from other disciplines; a method that considersthe role of material evidence, which means beginning with methodologicalquestionsin order to engage students (and colleagues no less) in the definition of evidence in historical and cultural analysis; and a method thatattends to the ethics of observation as part of the hermeneutics of visual cultures, including the viewer's gaze. Workshop participants explored both meta-level questions about engaging the visual arts and specific strategies for teaching visual arts in contemporary higher educational contexts through a range of questions. The pre-meeting workshop included mini-lectures, plenary conversations, and small group work. In addition, participants were exposed to materials for study and teaching including:methods of visual analysis, ethics of inquiry, exhibition practices, subject areas (Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, etc.), theories of visual culture, and so on. Sample Questions that were Explored:
 • How do religions happen visually and how do we study them? • How do faculty help students identify various intersections between religion and visuality/visual culture, and then see how they might be studied? • How do teachers effectively attend to the ethics of observation and teach students concerning the ethics of observation? • How do teachers effectively teach theology, bible, religious studies, etc. through the visual arts? • By what means do teachers help students effectively engage visual arts as places to begin the study of various disciplinary topics rather than as illustrations for particular points in those disciplines? • How do contextual readings of visual art aid teaching and learning in theology and religion? • What do faculty need to know about visual art historical methods, visual textual methods, cultural studies methods, etc. in order to teach visual arts in religious studies and theology classrooms? • What specific teaching methods help students with little experience in engaging visual arts and who may feel intimidated by invitations to respond to discussing visual art as religious or theological texts? • How do teachers help students engage the multi-variegated textures associated with both the study of the visual arts and religious studies, and theology? Co-sponsored with The Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies Workshop Leaders: David Morgan (Duke University), 
Vivian-Lee Nyitray (Prospect College, China), Wilson Yates (United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities), 
Paul Myhre (Wabash Center; President, SARTS) Pre-Conference Workshop: Teaching with Social Media (2013) The Wabash Center offered a four hour pre-meeting workshop on Friday, November 22, from 1:00 - 5:00 pm on the topic of Teaching with Social Media. The structure and design for the workshop consisted of three distinct movements. First, Mary Hess (Luther Seminary)facilitated a one-hour session on the topic "The New Culture of Learning” that is emerging in digitally mediated contexts in relation to teaching religious studies and theology. Second, Robert Williamson, Jr. (Hendrix College) facilitated a one-hour session on "Using Twitter in Teaching and Learning." Finally, Roger Nam (George Fox Evangelical Seminary) facilitated a one-hour session on “Blogs and Effective Teaching: Reimaging our Physical and Symbolic Classrooms.” Resources • Wabash Center Resources • Digital Tech and Theological Education
 • Tomorrow’s Professor • MacArthur Foundation Digital Learning
 • Teaching with Twitter Stephanie Hedge
 • A Framework for Teaching with Twitter Mark Sample
 • Using Twitter to Improve Student Learning Robert Williamson Jr.
 • “Using Twitter to Teach Reader-Oriented Biblical Interpretation.” Robert Williamson Jr. Teaching Theology & Religion 16, no. 3 (2013): 274-286. • A New Culture of Learning. Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown. Createspace, 2011.

 • Engaging Technology in Theological Education: All That We Can’t Leave Behind. Mary E. Hess. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2005

 • Hanging out, Messing Around, Geeking Out. Mizuko Ito, et al. MIT Press, 2010. • Teaching Reflectively in Theological Contexts: Promises and Contradictions. Mary E. Hess and Stephen D. Brookfield, editors. Krieger, 2008.

 • The Heart of Higher Education. Parker Palmer, Arthur Zajonc, Megan Scribner and Mark Nepo. Jossey-Bass, 2010.

 • Social Media in Higher Education: Teaching Web 2.0. Monica Patrut and Bogdan Patrut, editors.
IGI Global, 2013. Activities at 2018 Conference Send ideas for possible sessions to: Dr. Paul Myhre (myhrep@wabash.edu) Associate Director, Wabash Center Also of Interest: Latest Blog Posts

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2002 Conference for Doctoral Programs Preparing Graduate Students as Teachers Dates: October 20-22, 2002 - Wabash College Leadership team: Lucinda Huffaker, Wabash Center William Placher, Wabash College Participants: Yaakov Ariel, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill William Barnard, Southern Methodist University Ted Brelsford, Emory University John Carroll, Union Theological Seminary - PSCE Anne Collier-Freed, Fuller Theological Seminary Barbara De Concini, American Academy of Religion Donald Dietrich, Boston College Catherine Dooley, Catholic University of America David Eckel, Boston University School of Theology Mark Edwards, Harvard Divinity School Charles Foster, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching David Haberman, Indiana University Christine Hinze, Fordham University Adam Kamesar, Hebrew Union College Rosemary Keller, Union Theological Seminary, NY Douglas Knight, Vanderbilt University/The Divinity School Margaret Krych, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia Maureen Maloney, Graduate Theological Union Eric Meyers, Duke University Bruce Nielsen, Jewish Theological Seminary of America William Placher, Wabash College James Poling, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Harvard Divinity School Jack Seymour, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Winnifred Sullivan, University of Chicago Divinity School Gene Szarek, Loyola University Chicago Augustine Thompson, University of Virginia Richard Valantasis, Candler School of Theology - Emory University Joseph Wawrykow, University of Notre Dame Melissa Wilcox, Whitman College Robert Wilson, Yale Divinity School Description: The purpose of this Wabash Center meeting was to learn about initiatives some of the schools have undertaken, to discuss strategies for the future, and to discuss ways the Wabash Center can assist schools.