Resources

One page Teaching Tactic: students work in groups to identify and discuss differences between scholarly and non-academic sources.

One page Teaching Tactic: using worksheets to provide a structure for a group of students to increase their reading and analytic skills by walking together through a longer and more complex text.

One page Teaching Tactic: working in groups to practice reading carefully and write academically.

One page Teaching Tactic: Students imagine themselves as film directors to help visualize scriptural narratives, and thereby read more carefully.

One page Teaching Tactic: taking students outdoors for creative activities and discussions about creation in Genesis.

One page Teaching Tactic: a discussion exercise on the first day of class fools students in order to disrupt their prior assumptions of what constitutes a “real religion."

One page Teaching Tactic: discussion of a classical text that moves students from description to analysis and evaluation.

One page Teaching Tactic: scaffolds progressively more nuanced student understanding of difficult religious studies theory.

One page Teaching Tactic: How to start classroom discussions about sensitive issues such as human sexuality

One page Teaching Tactic: helping students to develop tools for countering violence, in a course taught in a women's prison