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One page Teaching Tactic: discussion prompts for small group work in a world religions course.

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One page Teaching Tactic: students write a history of the course to learn about historical methodology.

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One page Teaching Tactic: building review into a lecture.

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One page Teaching Tactic: getting discussion started about course content through a no-stakes quiz on the first day of class.

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One page Teaching Tactic: helping students get started focusing a research topic.

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One page Teaching Tactic: using a series of case studies through the semester in a Christian Education classroom.

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One page Teaching Tactic: students compare two theology textbooks to gain a new understanding of diversity.

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One page Teaching Tactic: a treasure hunt by which students learn about the attributes of God.

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One page Teaching Tactic: an exercise that treats student groups unequally, to learn about empathetic identification with biblical figures.

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One page Teaching Tactic: students take turns in the role of "teaching assistant" to increase motivation and attention to the material.

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One page Teaching Tactic: discussion of art objects in a one week intensive course.

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One page Teaching Tactic: creating a safe context to discuss race, ethnicity, and language.

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One page Teaching Tactic: students learn theology by working in pairs through the semester.

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One page Teaching Tactic: using study sheet handouts to help students learn from lectures, in a compressed "Maymester" class.

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One page Teaching Tactic: a method for convening discussion in large groups.

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One page Teaching Tactic to determine the level of knowledge and understanding students have of a particular subject (in this case, in a Hebrew Bible course).

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One page Teaching Tactic: encouraging discussion of significant course material on the first day of class.

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One page Teaching Tactic: take home writing prompts to get mid-semester feedback on the course while simultaneously helping students to make connections to their other courses.

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One page Teaching Tactic: providing a series of web pages for students to visit and respond to in online posts.

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Teaching Tactic: role play helps students learn how far a custodian's salary goes.

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Teaching Tactic: low stakes writing assignments to improve class discussions.

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Teaching Tactic: a group process to design an interfaith ritual in which every religion is respected and no religion is privileged.

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Teaching Tactic: designing effective discussion prompts when the professor had laryngitis.

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Teaching Tactic: an analysis of what makes for good questions to prompt student discussions.

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Teaching Tactic: analysis of effective use of case studies for teaching ethics.

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Teaching Tactic: allowing students to establish parts of the curriculum of a course.

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Teaching Tactic: overview and resources for creating concept maps to organize ideas.

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One page Teaching Tactic: students reflect on the writing rubric used to grade their writing, in an online or hybrid course.

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One page Teaching Tactic: students learn about Lutheranism by doing historical research of local congregations.

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One page Teaching Tactic: students reflect on their reading practices for class.

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One page Teaching Tactic: a method for improving students' sermons.

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One page Teaching Tactic: students learn to create models in order to increase their grasp of nuanced theological arguments.

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One page Teaching Tactic: establishing a predictable structure with discussion questions at the start of each class.

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One page Teaching Tactic: prompting student discussion using word clouds.

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One page Teaching Tactic: students learn some of the difficulties of translation when interpreting the bible.

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One page Teaching Tactic: students work in groups to study on line presence of African-American religious groups.

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One page Teaching Tactic: students work collaboratively to define religion.

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One page Teaching Tactic: students reflect on a religious practice they have selected to experience.

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One page Teaching Tactic: students are exposed to a reading of sacred text in the native language.

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One page Teaching Tactic: students discuss the nature of religion by comparing brief descriptions of founders.

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One page Teaching Tactic: to introduce and discuss course content on the first day of class, students work in groups to list what they know about the topic.

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One page Teaching Tactic: students increase comprehension of reading by learning to analyze the structure of a text.

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One page Teaching Tactic: using debate to introduce a topic.

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One page Teaching Tactic: students memorize and recite a selection from another tradition's scripture.

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One page Teaching Tactic: using an acronym to help students remember basic biblical chronology and plot outline.

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One page Teaching Tactic: a free write exercise helps students reflect on and articulate their values.

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One page Teaching Tactic: helping students to reflect on their reading practices.

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One page Teaching Tactic: a worksheet to help students place each new theological text into its broader conversation partners.

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One page Teaching Tactic: low-stakes writing assignments to improve students engagement with texts.

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One page Teaching Tactic: on the first day of class, students discuss course content by discussing classification strategies

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One page Teaching Tactic: dealing with emotional outbursts or rude student behavior.

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One page Teaching Tactic: low-stakes quiz at the start of a unit to encourage student discussion and engagement.

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One page Teaching Tactic: weekly schedule designed to encourage students to bring their questions and concerns to the subject matter.

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One page Teaching Tactic: students work collaboratively and in role play, to understand historical agents.

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One page Teaching Tactic: students work in groups to reflect on the learning goals of the course.

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One page Teaching Tactic: students apply earlier material to assess current reading assignment.

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One page Teaching Tactic: students experience the transformative power of telling your story through well designed prompts for pairs.

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One page Teaching Tactic to diagnose the level of learning students' bring to a course.

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One page Teaching Tactic to help students learn how to participate in effective class discussions.

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One page Teaching Tactic to help students engage course readings.

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One page Teaching Tactic to help students engage course readings.

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One page Teaching Tactic to help students understand the contingencies of historical documents.

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One page Teaching Tactic: teaching critical thinking skills by interpreting real-life ethical issues.

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One page Teaching Tactic: final projects for an online course.

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One page Teaching Tactic: using, and critiquing, social media to learn about and learn to interpret current events and the role of technology.

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One page Teaching Tactic: using twitter as a tool for class discussion.

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One page Teaching Tactic: student preparation of reading material to increase comprehension and engagement with each other and the topic.

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One page Teaching Tactic: encouraging more thoughtful engagement with online discussion boards.

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One page Teaching Tactic that moves students around the room to help them identify and discuss the major points in an assigned reading.

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One page Teaching Tactic: specific prompts for student presentations of a religious artifact they select.

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One page Teaching Tactic: a structured writing group for graduate students.

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One page Teaching Tactic: at the start of each class session a student is assigned to summarize the previous class meeting.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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One page Teaching Tactic: an in class exercise in which students to apply course material to a local issue on the  college campus.

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One page Teaching Tactic: student writing assignments in which they are forbidden to use direct quotations but required to provide a citation for every sentence that uses information from one of their sources.

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One page Teaching Tactic: describes a kinetic classroom exercise to help students’ reading comprehension

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One page Teaching Tactic: a warm-up exercise requiring students to recall and synthesize course material by selecting what is applicable to a practical pastoral care setting that they might reasonably expect to encounter.

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One page Teaching Tactic: using Twitter for student discussions of films outside of class, teaches them to write thoughtful and critical comments in a succinct but expressive manner.

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One page Teaching Tactic: student presentations to practice culling important concepts from class discussion, encouraging students to see how course material connects from one class period to the next and practice posing readings-based questions.

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One page Teaching Tactic: To make theoretically dense, conceptually difficult readings more concrete and easier to discuss. This enables our class discussion to begin with something besides “I don't get it.”

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One page Teaching Tactic: students write an anonymous autobiography at the beginning of the semester, and return at the end of the semester to place their original reflections in conversation with the course readings.

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One page Teaching Tactic: scaffolded short, "in character" writing assignments in an online course, to foster critical reflection on different sides of an argument.

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One page Teaching Tactic: begins discussion of human sexuality and the Bible from students' social context rather than “what does the Bible say?” -- derails the rush to judgment and demonstrates the multiplicity of sexuality “issues” in the room.

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

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

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

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

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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."

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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A one page teaching tactic using the Pacman arcade game to explain Hindu philosophical concepts.

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

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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.

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One-page Teaching Tactic that addresses how to help students become better readers.

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One-page Teaching Tactic with information on how to get more out of in class quizzes.

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One-page Teaching Tactic that describes ways that to enhance a class field trip to an academic conference.

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One-page Teaching Tactic that taps into students' interest in and knowledge of Facebook to help them read the Bible's four Gospels with fresh eyes.

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One-page Teaching Tactic that adopts and adapts a technique of classical theological education, secularizing it for an undergraduate context.

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One page Teaching Tactic: on the last day of class, students write a a short response to what they'd written on the first day of class -- to help them reflect on their learning over the course of the semester.

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One page Teaching Tactic: using graphic narratives to help students gain skills such as appreciating diverse worldviews, drawing inferences, and visual literacy.

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One page Teaching Tactic: begin each class session with learning objectives, to make the purpose explicit to students and help them remain aware of what will appear on summative assessments.

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One-page Teaching Tactic that uses pages from a children's book to concretize theoretical lessons about exegesis such as the contextual translation of words, reading in community, and larger literary, historical, social, and theological contexts.

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One-page Teaching Tactic that helps students reflect critically on their own positionalities and to culturally and historically contextualize the life of a human figure they are studying.

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One-page Teaching Tactic describing break out groups that integrate online-distance students with face-to-face students in the classroom.

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One-page Teaching Tactic that describes assignments using the new Religious Sounds Project database, helping students explore what counts as "religion."

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One-page Teaching Tactic that has students write creatively in the voice of an ancient person to help them learn to exercise sensitivity to historical, social, political, and social contexts of ancient documents and gain proficiency in reading texts critically and sympathetically.

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One-page Teaching Tactic that works with embodied metaphors and drawing to help students draw relationships between complicated concepts.

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One-page Teaching Tactic that sends students walking around campus to take photos that fit prompts sent by the professor using What'sApp.

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A one-page Teaching Tactic developed at a large public research university for students in lower-level introductory courses like “Introduction to Western Religions” and “Scriptures of the Near East.” It has also been used effectively in upper-level New Testament courses.

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One page Teaching developed to address the dissatisfaction students have experienced with one familiar approach—parsing a pregiven list of popular or academic definitions of religion for their shortcomings.

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One page Teaching Tactic designed for a medical ethics class from a Christian, theological perspective. A learning outcome for this course involves moral reasoning from a range of different ethical systems.

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