Overview

Teaching adult learners in college, graduate school, and seminary can be challenging--even for the most experienced professor. This resource provides creative essays to improve your teaching prowess and invigorate your teaching life. The storied essays invite constructive and imaginative reflection for your habits, practices, and aspirations of teaching. Written from a first-person perspective, the chapters focus on such topics as classroom dynamics, student learning activities, course design techniques, mapping the teaching career, facilitating student discussion, and learning more effective ways to coteach. The chapters are poignant, forthright, and illustrative of the complicated dynamics of the teaching profession. The stories in this book expand what is typically talked about in teaching and provide avenues to consider the humanity and vulnerability of the teacher and the learner. Each chapter concludes with material for reflection, enabling readers to consider the specifics of their own teaching context. The chapters spark conversation and encourage meaningful discussion. This book aids reflection by individual teachers as well as by small groups of teachers, or it can be used as a resource for entire faculties. Colleagues in every season of the teaching career will find assistance. This book supports your efforts to advance your teaching and develop your teaching life.

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""Thinking Teaching is readable, practical, and deeply wise. Drawing on her years at the Wabash Center and her lived classroom experience, Professor Westfield shares generalizable teaching wisdom in short, evocative essays that can be read in any order. Her attention to context, especially how race, gender, and class shape classroom life, makes this essential for religious educators."" --Roger S. Nam, Professor of Hebrew Bible, Emory University ""Enter into this book like you are climbing on a porch swing with a wise friend and mentor to talk about your life as a teacher and scholar. Dr. Westfield will meet you there, and together you will explore all the deep fears, secret joys, enduring puzzles, responsive care, and creative artistry that mark this profound calling. What a gift this book is to all who need encouragement in the teaching life!"" --Katherine Turpin, Professor of Practical Theology and Religious Education, Iliff School of Theology ""Thinking Teaching is a master work from a master teacher, Lynne Westfield. With her humor and skill, Westfield offers short essays, reflective journaling questions, and most of all compassion for teachers at all points in their career for balancing teaching and learning, scholarship, and being human."" --Carolyn M. Jones Medine, Director, Institute for African American Studies, Franklin College, University of Georgia

Author Information

Nancy Lynne Westfield is Director of the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion. She hosts a podcast titled Dialogue on Teaching about teaching and the teaching life, available on all major podcast platforms. Her blog, Teaching on the Pulse, can be found at https: //wabashcenter.edu/. She is the author of Glimpses of Me and Mine (Resource Publications, 2023) and Dear Sisters (2001).

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