Here at ESN, we've found that some of our most appreciated posts share practical tips on learning various academic skills that emerging scholars can use to serve God and their neighbors. Teaching is a key way to serve students and love our neighbors by sharing knowledge, and it's also something many emerging scholars are learning how to do. So in Spring 2017, we started a series sharing Teaching Tips from people in our network. We hope readers will get some good ideas from each other, and also get a glimpse into how … [Read more...] about Teaching Tips: My Top 3 Tips
Teaching Tips Series Spring 2017
Teaching Tips: Listening
Jayme M. Yeo shares some things she's learned about listening to students for our Teaching Tips series. See her other writing for the ESN blog here. … [Read more...] about Teaching Tips: Listening
Teaching Tips: Yearning and Practicalities
Inez Tan contributed to our Writing As a Spiritual Discipline series earlier this spring with the post Journaling to Practice Honesty. Now she shares some of her ideas for our Teaching Tips series. … [Read more...] about Teaching Tips: Yearning and Practicalities
Teaching As Relationship (Teaching Tips)
ESN continues its Spring 2017 series on Teaching Tips with this post by history graduate student Joshua Shiver. See his other work for the blog here. Last summer I was given the opportunity to teach my first college-level class: a senior-level lecture course on the history of the American Civil War and Reconstruction. I frankly wasn't that nervous and I went into the course thinking that my job consisted of a simple two-step process where I simply downloaded information into my students' brains and then … [Read more...] about Teaching As Relationship (Teaching Tips)
Teaching Tips: Grace and Identity
Bethany Bowen-Wefuan shares today's teaching tip. Want to see her other pieces for the blog, including posts on praying for students and thankfulness around graduate exam time? Click here. … [Read more...] about Teaching Tips: Grace and Identity