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Sharing About Teaching and Learning
by Lynette Sumpter, Dean of Academics and Director of The Center
This year I’m teaching a religion elective called “Psychology and Religion.” The focus of the course is to examine religion through the lens of psychology, prompting deep thinking about religious phenomena and experiences. My primary work in graduate school was exploring the relationship between psychology and religion, and I found my graduate years of study extremely rewarding. What was most powerful was finishing graduate school with even more questions necessitating a life-long learner approach to engaging these questions! (more…)
A Team-Based Approach in Algebra 2
by Allyson Brown, Mathematics Department
I have just begun my twentieth year of teaching high school mathematics. During the course of these years, I have guided over 1200 students through some sort of math curriculum. Working with these students taught me three important lessons:
1. Student learning is improved when they are given the opportunity to explain concepts to other students.
2. When I assign group projects, students will divide the work in order to either minimize or maximize their own contribution. (more…)
A Roadmap in Grading
by Stephen Hebert, Religion Department and Assistant Chaplain
I’m a religion teacher in search of meaning.
Last Spring I floated what appeared to be a straightforward question to my classes. On the tail end of an assignment that was not executed well (and for which the teacher was to blame), I asked students: “What does a grade really mean?” They stared at me. After a round of clarifying questions, we got to the heart of the matter: most students don’t really know what an “A” means, but they could guess at what it might mean— (more…)
Learning to “Readerly” Latin
by Dr. Heather Harwood, Classics Department Chair
Q:HOW DO YOU LEARN HOW TO READ LATIN?
A: BY READING LATIN!!
Although this is something I have been jokingly saying to my students for years in my efforts to dissuade them from reading out their English translations in class, I have never found it to be a very helpful or effective injunction. For years, Latin II was my hardest class to teach as year after year I continually struggled to make the (more…)
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