TEACHING FOR UNDERSTANDING AND ENGAGEMENT

Online Workshop Session Description

Teaching for Understanding and Engagement will explore a new approach to shape identity, nurture meaning-making, and engender faithful living in the world through transformative pedagogy and propositional curriculum so our lives embody our faith.

This 2-part Zoom workshop, along with the details of the sessions, are as follows:

 

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14  | 11:30 A.M. EDT

Session 1

This session will consider a new way to craft educational experiences in order to focus on what disciples should understand, why it is important, and how to live differently now so understanding is clarified and deepened. Participants will learn how to shape lessons and curriculum around propositions that provide purpose, foster the expectation that change comes by encounters with Scripture and theology, and to build in time for builds in time for personal and communal discernment that leads to faithful engagement in the world. Those in the workshop will leave this session with worksheets for at-home practice that will be reviewed in Session 2. The professor will be available the week between the sessions for individual or small group coaching.

 

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21  | 11:30 A.M. EDT

Session 2

This session will begin with a roundtable discussion of the experiences by the participants with propositional teaching and curriculum. Time will be allowed for an exploratoin of transformative pedagogies and emancipatory methodologies that nurture critical and active participation in life and learning in order to bridge any divide between the faith professed on Sunday and the way life is lived throughout the week.