Resources

One-page Teaching Tactic in which students share their social location, to build community and set the stage for tough conversations about race, gender and privilege.

One-page Teaching Tactic that offers a stragety for improving students' participation in classroom discussions.

One page Teaching Tactic: Students are presented with an ambiguous text that helps them explore how their own experiences and contemporary contexts shape biblical interpretation. It introduces the idea that an interpreters’ identities, cultures, politics, and individual histories significantly change their perceptions of a biblical text.

One page Teaching Tactic: a learning design that de-familiarizes students' expectations of what a book is, to open new ways of understanding biblical texts.

One page Teaching Tactic: a process to prompt students to meet and converse in a series of one-on-one discussions, while working to understand course material in preparation for deeper analysis.

One page Teaching Tactic: structure, prompts, and evaluation rubric for final summative exams conducted orally with individual students.

One page Teaching Tactic: a test-prep strategy in which students prepare a 30 second "elevator speech" in the character of one of the course's major thinkers, that they then present to each other in pairs and have to determine each other's characters.

One page Teaching Tactic: describes a scaffolded semester-long design encouraging student self-assessment of their work.

One page Teaching Tactic: students annotate popular song lyrics to help them review material from the course by analyzing that material in a new context.

One page Teaching Tactic: a highly structured scaffolding of assignments to support students' ethnographic site visit to a local religious place of worship.