Resources

One page Teaching Tactic: students write tweet 140 character summaries of the week’s reading.

One page Teaching Tactic: an online platform that helps students master vocabulary terms .

One page Teaching Tactic: using a game to help students learn course content

One page Teaching Tactic: students work through the steps for doing comparative theology: encounter, interpretation, and comparison .

A collection of one page Teaching Tactics: S. Brent Plate's introductory essay orients the reader to the academic move toward material text studies, a wide range of research questions and pedagogical practices that includes attention to the history of the book, book technologies, the social habits of readership especially in relation to print culture, and issues raised in media studies about differences in verbal communication. This introduction is followed by a series of one-page Teaching Tactics that prompt students to ask about the material conditions in and through which scriptures acquire meaning. Students are challenged to become aware of the sensorial nature of sacred texts, and of communication itself. They touch, see, and hear in new ways, learning with their bodies.

One page Teaching Tactic: using visual arts in the biblical studies classroom.

One page Teaching Tactic: a method for engaging students' religious questions in an Islamic Studies course

One page Teaching Tactic: Scaffolded activities and assignments beginning the first day of class to help students engage significant life questions in the Bible.

One page Teaching Tactic: Inspiring students through informal encounters with the wide diversity of actual living biblical scholars.

One page Teaching Tactic: Students work alone and in groups to identify effective research questions for their capstone essay.