Resources

One page Teaching Tactic: A final paper assignment that knits together the major themes of the course by drawing on activities from the first day of class and peer interviews students have conducted during the semester.

One page Teaching Tactic: student activities in the initial face-to-face gathering help establish community in an online course.

One page Teaching Tactic: active learning strategy in which students use e-tools to research and represent how historic religious events have been portrayed.

One page Teaching Tactic: dividing up students into separate "expert groups" helps them master difficult reading assignments.

One page Teaching Tactic: in an introductory Biblical Hebrew course, students master one word, study passages in which it occurs, and preach on it.

One page Teaching Tactic: in groups, students perform roles of different theorists as they discuss case studies in ministry.

One page Teaching Tactic: a series of student pairings discuss questions about religious identity in a World Religions Course.

One page Teaching Tactic: using images as an analogy to help students understand the difference between plagiarism and other appropriate uses of scholarship.

One page Teaching Tactic: individual oral exams during office hours in place of the first high stakes exam, helps encourage student engagement and diagnose learning problems.

One page Teaching Tactic: student-centered process demonstrating the processes and reasonableness of biblical textual criticism.