Coming this January, at a UCLA campus near you (or not so near, as the case may be), I will be presenting a lecture on Hebrew Civilization and Second Temple Judaism within the context of the course “Introduction to Western Civilization: Ancient Civilizations, Prehistory to Circa A.D. 843.” I will be TAing for two sections [...]
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9 Dec 09
12 Oct 09
Teaching the Bible at a Christian college is one thing. And teaching the Bible at a non-confessional (”secular”) university is, of course, something else. But teaching the Bible for one class session during a ten-week course on the foundational history of Western civilization is another thing entirely. That’s what I’m doing this week.
I am responsible [...]
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Posted in bible, pedagogy, ucla
28 Sep 09
Today was my first teaching experience at UCLA. I have taught in a variety of contexts before, but being a TA at UCLA is a different beast. This is the first time I actually created my own syllabus for a course. When I told the other TA’s that mine was six pages, they gasped. The [...]
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Posted in pedagogy, syllabus
22 Sep 09
Today was TA orientation for the History Department. It was definitely worth the while. Of course, we learned about our resources and who we should contact about whatever issue . . .
“And don’t forget to fill out those purple forms so that you can see your roster on MyUCLA. Talk to Hubert about any computer [...]
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Posted in pedagogy, teaching, ucla
16 Sep 09
Michael R. Cosby serves as Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Greek at Messiah College. He earned his Ph.D. from Emory University, with a dissertation on the rhetorical structure of Hebrews 11. In 1999, Mike published Portraits of Jesus: An Inductive Approach to the Gospels (Westminster John Knox). This year, he is publishing two works [...]
11 Aug 09
Greg Carey asks a very good question on his blog today (receiving many good and helpful comments), in line with the theme of my previous post pointing to Joel Willits’ self-reflection. Here is the question:
There’s a huge gap between what I learned in seminary and how I teach today.
Thus, my question to other biblical studies [...]
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9 Aug 09
I love to read about the experience of teachers, particularly as they share the mistakes from which they’ve learned. Joel’s post, “Developing as an Undergraduate Teacher,” is quite forthright and helpful to those of us who are only just beginning the pedagogical journey. He explains how he was gung ho for this one particular method [...]
8 Jul 09
I have taught in a few different capacities. Several of those have been ministry-related–small groups, sermons, Sunday school, etc. My first teaching assistant position was for Greek as an undergrad, where I often helped go through homework with students in class. In that position, in TA spots I had at Fuller Seminary and as a [...]
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Posted in career, pedagogy, ucla
24 May 09
Mike Bird notes his co-authored (with Craig Keener) piece in the SBL forum, “Jack of All Trades and Master of None: The Case for ‘Generalist’ Scholars in Biblical Scholarship.” While we need both specialists and generalists in academia, this article is an apology for a generalist approach–as the field of biblical studies has descended ever [...]
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Posted in academia, biblical studies, pedagogy, scholarship
11 May 09
My Latin course at UCLA is taught by two very idiosyncratic teaching assistants with their own distinct senses of humor. It is amazing how a little bit of humor makes learning so much easier. Even if it’s cheesy. I find Alex particularly funny because he makes jokes at such unexpected moments and in such a [...]
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Posted in humor, latin, pedagogy
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- Life Before Google James F. McGrath
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