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    Dialogue On Teaching Podcast   Dialogue on Teaching, hosted by Nancy Lynne Westfield, Ph.D., is the monthly podcast of The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion. Amplifying the Wabash Center’s mission, the podcast focuses upon issues of teaching and learning in theology and ...

2005-06 Pre-Tenure Workshop
2005-06 Workshop on Teaching and Learning for Pre-Tenure Theological School Faculty 
Dates July 7-12, 2005 - First Summer Session at Wabash College February 10-12, 2006 - Winter Session at Mustang Island June 14-19, 2006 - Second Summer Session at Wabash College 
Leadership Team Richard Ascough, Queen's Theological College-Director Willie James Jennings, Duke University ...

2003-04 Pre-Tenure Workshop
2003-04 Workshop on Teaching and Learning for Pre-Tenure Theological School Faculty 
Dates June 18-24, 2003 - First Summer Session at Wabash College January 30-February 1, 2004 - Winter Session at Phoenix, AZ June 16-21, 2004 - Second Summer Session at Wabash College 
Leadership Team Joretta Marshall, Eden Theological Seminary-Director Faustino (Tito) Cruz, Franciscan School ...

2002-03 Pre-Tenure Workshop
2002-2003 Workshop on Teaching and Learning for Pre-Tenure Theological School Faculty 
Dates July 18-24, 2002 - First Summer Session at Wabash College February 7-9, 2003 - Winter Session at Scottsdale, AZ July 10-15, 2003 - Second Summer Session at Wabash College 
Leadership Team Elizabeth M. Bounds, Candler School of Theology-Director Theodore (Ted) Hiebert, ...

Teaching Preaching as a Christian Practice: A New Approach to Homiletical Pedagogy
Preaching's most able practitioners gather in this book to call for a radical change in how Christian preaching is taught. Arguing that preaching is a living practice with a long tradition, an identifiable shape, and a broad set of norms and desired outcomes, these scholars propose that teachers initiate their ...

Teaching Preaching: Isaac Rufus Clark and Black Sacred Rhetoric
In Teaching Preaching, Katie Cannon, one of Clark's myriad preaching proteges, conceives her role as purely "presentational": "to bring Clark face to face with a reading audience, allow him to explain the formal elements of preaching from the inside out, and let each lecture mediate its own message." She also ...

"Evaluating Sermons: The Function of Grades in Teaching Preaching"
What are grades doing in a homiletics classroom? This article traces the function of grades through the broader history of the educational system in the United States and then makes suggestions for how grades can be used more effectively in teaching preaching. Beginning in the nineteenth century, teachers used grades ...

"Conversational Learning: A Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Preaching"
An increasing number of female students populate preaching classes in seminaries and theological schools across the United States. Based on the analysis of female students' needs and demands in preaching courses, I propose a pedagogy for conversational learning to teach homiletics. My own teaching experience and the knowledge gained through ...

"The Idea of Practice and Why It Matters in the Teaching of Preaching"
The concept of practice helps us better understand how preaching works, as well as how we can teach that practice more effectively. This essay develops a compact but wide-ranging view of practices, reflecting the current scholarly discussion. It also argues that preaching is a particular instance of this larger concept ...

When Community Tragedy Disrupts Your Teaching
The day after the Atlanta spa shootings in March last year, my class on Asian and Asian American Theologies met via Zoom. We had scheduled to discuss worship and preaching for that class. But I knew that the murder of eight people, including six women of Asian descent, would weigh ...

Can We Practice What We Teach? When Online Education is Not a Panacea
Before the pandemic, one of the most pressing subjects for discussion and debate in my context, teaching at a freestanding seminary, was the transition to online education. I recall lively conversations engaging the merits and challenges of “moving online” in formal faculty meetings, and the sometimes more important informal tê...

Teaching Martin Luther: A Contemporary Metaphor
“The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing something unfamiliar or an abstraction in terms of something familiar and concrete. Thus, our language is an incredibly intricate web of definitions of one thing in terms of another.”[1] Mary Ylvisaker Nilsen’s expansive definition of metaphor applies to teaching—helping students ...

To Teach Collaboratively or Not?
Throughout my twenty-five plus years of teaching I have most often declined opportunities to “team teach” (the terminology used in my institution) in the historically and predominantly white seminary I have spent the longest part of my teaching career. Why? Two primary reasons. First, I was the only full-time African ...

Training Students to Proclaim Justice Effectively
What excites me about teaching theology to the Z-generation is their unabated courage. Admittedly, their actions online and public voices could get them into some pickles at times, but they model for previous generations the need to be concerned about things that matter, eternal things that matter to God. Issues ...

Preaching in African American Traditions
A 2014 course by Gennifer Brooks at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary surveys "the history, theology and practice of preaching in the African American context, generally referred to as Black Preaching."

Introduction to Preaching
A 2013 course by Kevin Livingston at Tyndale Seminary "presents a biblical understanding of the ministry of preaching" with a focus on "the nature of preaching, the person of the preacher, and the principles of sermon construction."

Preaching
A 2014 course by Mark Fowler at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary "is designed to help students find their individual preaching voice as they develop the abilities and skills necessary for the construction and delivery of effective sermons."

Advanced Preaching
A 2014 course by Gennifer Brooks and Mark Fowler at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary "is intended to help students to increase and improve the skills needed to create effective sermons of varied styles, which are appropriate to the contexts of the Biblical text, the culture of society and their particular community, and ...

Preaching New Testament Narratives
A 2013 course by Fred Penney at Tyndale Seminary maintains a focus on "preaching biblical narratives while upholding a commitment to biblical exposition."

"Evaluating Sermons: The Function of Grades in Teaching Preaching"
What are grades doing in a homiletics classroom? This article traces the function of grades through the broader history of the educational system in the United States and then makes suggestions for how grades can be used more effectively in teaching preaching. Beginning in the nineteenth century, teachers used grades ...

"Conversational Learning: A Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Preaching"
An increasing number of female students populate preaching classes in seminaries and theological schools across the United States. Based on the analysis of female students' needs and demands in preaching courses, I propose a pedagogy for conversational learning to teach homiletics. My own teaching experience and the knowledge gained through ...

"The Idea of Practice and Why It Matters in the Teaching of Preaching"
The concept of practice helps us better understand how preaching works, as well as how we can teach that practice more effectively. This essay develops a compact but wide-ranging view of practices, reflecting the current scholarly discussion. It also argues that preaching is a particular instance of this larger concept ...

"No Preacher Left Behind: A New Prerequisite for the Introductory Preaching Course"
M.Div. programs sequence curriculum in order to cumulatively build competencies for wise, faithful, reflective, appropriate and effective ministerial practices. That is why the introductory preaching course typically is positioned somewhere near the middle of the program. The author of this article discovered that students who, in the semester immediately ...

"Enabling Diverse Learners to Thrive in the Online Homiletics Classroom"
Many early efforts at teaching preaching online incurred disastrous losses in quality. Revamped versions now claim to meet, and in some areas even exceed, classroom learning effectiveness, with potentially significant gains for students from non‐dominant cultures. Students preach in local ethnic and denominational contexts, so a wider range of ...

Teaching Contextual Attentiveness in a Preaching Classroom
My project will empower students to become more contextually attentive preachers through a) employing teaching strategies that leverage a multiplicity of voices across various preaching traditions, b) assigning audio and video sermons inside and outside of class in which students see and hear from a diverse representation of preachers; c) ...

Achieving More Effective Biblical Preaching Through Interdisciplinary Teaching of Contemporary Biblical Interpretation in a Catholic M.Div. Curriculum
Support for a gathering of up to twenty M.Div faculty in biblical studies and homiletics for two meetings to identify and discuss collaborative approaches for effectively teaching biblical interpretation for preaching.

Disentangling Assessment Practices in the Introductory Preaching Class

Exploring Intercultural Instructional Communication for Homiletical Pedagogy: Facework Theory, Cultural Competence, and “Peering behind the Curtain"
The purpose of this project is to assemble a consultation to address a central challenge in homiletical pedagogy: in-class sermon feedback. The project will bring together homileticians and educators from around the country to meet for a weekend in January to: (1) address the manifold issues that surround the in-class feedback ...

Sustaining a Culture of Teaching and Learning
Recent changes to the curriculum and the graduate teacher training program has prompted interest among the faculty and administration at Boston University School of Theology in expanding opportunities for faculty development in the areas of teaching and mentoring. Building on the demonstrated interest among faculty across rank in continuing education ...

Studio Teaching in Higher Education - Selected Design Cases
A conservatory of music in my hometown annually brings to campus a famous singer who leads a master class for its voice students. This is a ticketed event open to the public and regularly draws a large audience. It’s simply fascinating to watch the singer teach. One by one, ...

Teaching Across Cultures: Contextualizing Education for Global Mission
As a Roman trained missiologist who teaches intercultural pedagogy and ministry, as someone who grew up on the US-Mexican border and who has worked in religious formation since the age of twelve, I was drawn to this book’s title and cover design, a world map on a chalk board. ...

A Concise Guide to Improving Student Learning: Six Evidence-Based Principles and How to Apply Them
The authors of this brief resource provide educators with six of the most important principles to emerge from recent research on human learning. Taken together, these principles provide the elements of a framework for effective constructivist pedagogy, particularly in higher education: Desirable difficulties increase long-term retention (5-7) Meaningful and spaced ...

What Does the Bible Say? A Critical Conversation with Popular Culture in a Biblically Illiterate World
Mary Ann Beavis and Hyeran Kim-Cragg, a biblical scholar and a practical theologian, respectively, address a number of topics that are engaged by people outside of the contours of usual religious contexts; those who tacitly or consciously engage with scriptural and religious themes. It is this audience that the authors ...

Inclusive Teaching: Presence in the Classroom (New Directions for Teaching and Learning, Number 140)
In his opening essay in the collection, editor Cornell Thomas of Texas Christian University invites readers to envision a new type of pedagogy that sees each student as a “unique being with the potential for great growth” (2). The educational philosophies of John Dewey and bell hooks grace the pages of ...