Building a course from scratch...

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This is a "web adjunct" to the doctoral student roundtable that takes place every year at Luther Seminary. To return to the main page on "teaching and learning at Luther," please click here.

Metaphors and vocation

As I mentioned in the workshop, it's important to begin with yourself: what kind of learner are you? what kind of teacher do you aspire to be? what is the guiding metaphor for your role as teacher? (we mentioned: "sage on the stage," "guide on the side," midwife, shepherd, interlocuter, and so on).

Center for Teacher Formation


Frameworks of design

Your vision for your course will shape how you put it together. Here are some ideas to think about:

The NLTF site on 'getting started'

Remember Elliott Eisner's advice about the "explicit, implicit, and null" curricula.

Don't forget to think about incorporating the cognitive, the affective and the psychomotor into your course.

Remember to work with a variety of intelligences.

Incorporate ongoing evaluation and assessment into the course.



Finding syllabi

The Wabash Syllabi link list

AAR syllabus project

APRRE syllabus sharing (requires a password from members)

Sociology of religion syllabi

H-Amrel syllabi (courses in American religious history)


Bibliographies

The Wabash Center's teaching resources

The Wabash Center's bibliographies

The National Teaching and Learning Forum's bibliography


Other resources

I'll add to this part of the site as I come across links -- or you find them and suggest them! Don't forget the 'teaching tips' sites recommended on the main T&L page.


3 March 2003