Podcasts

What does it mean to coach students as the course moves to online teaching? Teaching during the COVID 19 crisis requires we maintain classroom community.  Dr. Nancy Lynne Westfield hosts a conversation with Dr. Bernadette McNary-Zak (Rhodes College).

What is spiritual formation for teachers? Teaching during the chaos of the pandemic is soul work. It requires a soul pedagogy. This discussion provides insights into nurturing the spiritual awareness of teachers to better support and assist the learner. The conversation provides practices for the online classroom, encourages teachers to risk creativity and imagination, and suggests that formation or deformation of students is a matter of attentiveness, flexibility and freedom.  

Online teaching, even for those teachers who abruptly made the transition weeks ago, is here to stay. Improving and enriching online teaching means better use of image and storytelling.  This conversation provides insights, practices, and know-how-suggestions for including poetry, film, novels, music – all forms of the arts – into learning sessions and student assignments. The courage of being an artist who teaches, and the inspiration to take risks, is a central theme of the dialogue. The use of technology does not have to be a hindrance to creative teaching; it might actually be an asset. 

This crisis moment is a time to rethink formation into being a more embodied learning. Doing theology in crisis is about prayer, intimate conversations and hope.

Teaching during the pandemic requires we care for our students as well as ourselves. This podcast features a conversation with Rachel Harding (University of Colorado, Boulder) about rebuilding spiritual practices for this uncharted moment.

Teaching online can honor the body, encourage agency and nurture intellectual community. A pedagogy of hospitality for this moment of crisis. Dr. Nancy Lynne Westfield hosts Dr. Evelyn Parker (Perkins School of Theology) in this conversation. 

Leadership, in moments of crisis, must find new and ancient ways of being humane and acting creatively. This wisdom conversation with Dr. Alton Pollard, III (Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary) is a call to compassion.

Adapting new ways of teaching during the pandemic requires grace be extended to others as well as ourselves. Allow yourself to risk being creative; suspend judgement.

Less ambition and more conversational pedagogy to engage students struggling in this COVID-19 moment.

Writing for liberation of faculty voices to speak with courage and agency.