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A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Strategy for Unlocking Theory in Religious Studies

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Duperon, Matthew
2017
Teaching Theology and Religion 20, no. 3 (2017): 263-264
BL41.T4 v.20 no. 3
Topics: Assessing Students   |   Learning Designs

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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: scaffolds progressively more nuanced student understanding of difficult religious studies theory.
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Annotating Pop Culture

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Lloyd, Daniel
2018
Teaching Theology and Religion 21, no. 2 (2018): 141
BL41.T4 v.21 no. 2
Topics: Teaching Religion   |   Learning Designs

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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: 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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Engaging Primary Sources

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McMichael, Mandy
2017
Teaching Theology and Religion 20, no. 3 (2017): 266
BL41.T4 v.20 no. 3
Topics: Teaching Religion   |   Learning Designs

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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: discussion of a classical text that moves students from description to analysis and evaluation.
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Getting a Sense of the Room When Discussing Sexuality

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Stephens, Darryl W.
2017
Teaching Theology and Religion 20, no. 2 (2017): 152
Topics: Discussion   |   Teaching Religion   |   Learning Designs

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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: How to start classroom discussions about sensitive issues such as human sexuality
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Group Worksheets for Collaborative Reading of Texts

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Eklund, Rebekah
2018
Teaching Theology and Religion 21, no. 2 (2018): 138
BL41.T4 v.21 no. 2
Topics: Teaching Religion   |   Learning Designs

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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: 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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Reframing as a Means of Changing Perception

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Willsky-Ciollo, Lydia
2017
Teaching Theology and Religion 20, no. 3 (2017): 265
BL41.T4 v.20 no. 3
Topics: Teaching Religion   |   Learning Designs

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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: 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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Spot the Difference: Comparing Sources in Religious Studies

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Scripps‐Hoekstra, Lindy
2018
Teaching Theology and Religion 21, no. 2 (2018): 139
BL41.T4 v.21 no. 2
Topics: Teaching Writing   |   Teaching Religion   |   Learning Designs

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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: students work in groups to identify and discuss differences between scholarly and non-academic sources.
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Writing on Religion, Beyond the Site Visit

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Thomases, Drew
2018
Teaching Theology and Religion 21, no. 2 (2018): 140
BL41.T4 v.21 no. 2
Topics: Teaching Religion   |   Learning Designs   |   Alternative Classrooms

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