Teacher Training Courses
If you have any questions about
the Concordia
online training,
please contact
Greg Close, MEd.
Director of CELT / WebCT Administrator
The Center for Excellence in
Learning and Teaching
Concordia University
503-493-6592
gclose@cu-portland.edu
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Ongoing Online Teacher Training Courses
The Bible Literacy Project sponsors online graduate-level courses
on how to teach a legal, rigorous and academic public high school class
on the Bible. These courses – the only university-based teacher training
for how to teach about the Bible in public schools – are offered in
partnership with Concordia University’s College of Education in
Portland, Oregon.
To register for these courses please visit
http://www.cu-portland.edu/blp
What kinds of online courses are available?
Three price and content structures are available: a modestly priced
short course which gives a certificate of completion, a mid-price course
for continuing education units and a full-price course for graduate
level credit.
- CEU 022W, CEU 023W, CEU 024W, Four-week
seminars. How to Teach the Bible in Public School.
$200 each.
- CEU 023W - The Gospels- Begins
TBD
- CEU 024W - Heroes of Faith,
Begins January 3, 2011 Online
- CEU 025W - Women of Valor, Begins
April 4, 2011
Online.
- CEU 022W - Genesis, Oct 24th,
2011
- EDU 896W, How to Teach the Bible in Public School: Content,
First Amendment
Guidelines, Lessons from Genesis to Revelation, A Continuing
Education Course for English and Humanities Teachers
$800.
Offers Continuing Education Units equivalency.
Sept 5th, 2011 Online.
- EDU 596W, How to Teach the Bible in Public School: Content,
First Amendment
Guidelines, Lessons from Genesis to Revelation, A Rigorous Graduate
Course for English and Humanities Teachers
$1785. Offers graduate credits.
Sept 5th, 2011 Online.
How are these online course opportunities the same?
- Each course studies the Bible as literature.
- Each course provides teaching tips for an academic study of the
Bible.
- Each course reviews First Amendment Guidelines for teaching about
the Bible in public schools.
- Each course models best practices for an academic study of the
Bible.
- Each course is completely online. The course participants receive
assignments, discuss readings, and complete assignments in a special
web site accessible only to course participants and their Concordia
instructor.
- Each course offers a “Bible Literature Certificate of Completion.”
- Each course is offered in cooperation with Bible Literacy
Project, Inc., Front Royal, VA
How are these online course opportunities different and which is best for me?
Each course in the CEU Series is a four-week seminar-type
course. Each four-week seminar focuses on a different part of the
Hebrew Bible or New Testament. ($200 each) The seminars are for teachers and
other interested persons who want an introduction to an academic
study of the Bible. One purpose of the seminars is to help
interested teachers develop expertise -- including materials and
strategies -- for teaching about the Bible. Another purpose is to
provide teachers, board members, administrators and other interested
persons with a “feel” for and a knowledge-base of academic study of
the Bible (as opposed to devotional or doctrinal study). Course
participants earn one hour of “limited graduate seminar credit.” The
one hour of “limited graduate seminar credit” may be accepted at
some universities as an elective in education graduate programs. One
hour of credit requires 30 hours of work. Those 30 hours are the
equivalent of 3 CEU hours (1 CEU per 10 hours of work).
CEU 023W, How to Teach the Bible in Public School: Content,
First Amendment
Guidelines, Focusing on the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and
John
A Four-week Seminar for English and Humanities Teachers and
Other
Education Stakeholders, 4-week seminars. This seminar includes study of the New Testament books of
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
CEU 024W, How to Teach the Bible in Public School:
Content, First Amendment
Guidelines, Focusing on Heroes of Faith: Moses, David, Isaiah,
Job,
Jonah, Daniel, and Paul, A Four-week Seminar for English and
Humanities Teachers and Other Education Stakeholders, 4-week seminars.
This seminar features Biblical heroes of faith commonly
encountered in Western culture, including Moses, David, Isaiah,
Jonah, Job, and Paul.
CEU 022W, How to Teach the Bible in Public School:
Content, First Amendment
Guidelines, Focusing on the Book of Genesis, A Four-week Seminar
for English and Humanities Teachers and Other Education
Stakeholders, 4-week seminars.
This seminar includes study of popular Genesis narratives
commonly encountered in Western culture, including the Creation,
the Fall, Cain and Abel, Noah and the Flood, Tower of Babel,
Abraham and Sarah, Joseph, and Jacob and Esau.
CEU 025W, How to Teach the Bible in Public School:
Content, First Amendment
Guidelines, Focusing on Women of Valor: Miriam, The Strong Woman
(of
Proverbs 31), Naomi, Ruth, Esther, Rahab, Hannah, Judith,
Susannah,
the Marys, and More!
EDU 896W, How to Teach the Bible in Public School: Content,
First Amendment
Guidelines, Lessons from Genesis to Revelation, A Continuing
Education Course for English and Humanities Teachers ($800)
EDU 896W is a 15-week continuing education course. This course is
less rigorous than EDU 596W, yet covers much of the same
course content. The course EDU 896W is for interested high school
teachers who desire to earn “limited graduate seminar credit.” The
course EDU 896W covers foundational Bible texts, from Genesis to
Revelation, in order to understand concepts and allusions that
permeate Western culture. Course participants will develop expertise
— including materials and strategies — for teaching Bible
literature. Course participants earn four hours of “limited graduate
seminar credit.” These four hours of “limited graduate seminar
credit” may be accepted at some universities as electives in
education graduate programs. Each one hour of credit requires 30
hours of work; therefore, approximately 120 hours of work are
invested to complete this four-hour course. Those 120 hours are the
equivalent of 12 CEU hours (1 CEU per 10 hours of work).
EDU 596W, How to Teach the Bible in Public School: Content,
First Amendment
Guidelines, Lessons from Genesis to Revelation: A Rigorous Graduate
Course for English and Humanities Teachers ($1620) EDU 596W is a 15-week graduate level course. This course, the most
rigorous of the three, is for educators who desire to earn graduate
credit that transfers to master’s degree programs. The course EDU
596W covers foundational Bible texts, from Genesis to Revelation, in
order to understand concepts and allusions that permeate Western
culture. Course participants will study Bible literature and
curriculum and instruction strategies so that they may acquire
discrete Bible knowledge for a well-rounded education in order to
(a) integrate the Bible into their English or humanities courses or
(b) teach a full course in Bible as literature. Course
participants earn three hours of graduate credit.
Experienced high school English teachers and university
professors developed the online course with input and complementary
video-streaming from nationally-known eminent scholars.
Marie
Goughnour Wachlin (Ph.D., University of Oregon )
Director of the Bible Literacy Project Teacher Training
Program
Adjunct Professor, Concordia University, Portland OregonAuthor,
The Bible Literacy Report: What do American teens
need to know and what do they know?
* Coordinator, online training course.
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Robert
Alter (Ph.D., Harvard)
Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, University
of California at Berkeley
* Introduction to Bible Literature Teaching
* Bible Translations
* David
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Roger
Grant Baker (Ed.D., Brigham Young University)
Associate Professor, Brigham Young University, UT
* Literary Bible Reading
* Women and the Bible
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Paul C.
Borgman (Ph.D., University of Chicago)
Professor of English, Gordon College, MA
* Abraham
* Book of Mark
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Gayle
Carpenter (Ph.D.)
College of Humanities Instructor, Ohio State University
at Columbus
* Teaching Tips |
Thomas B.
Dozeman (Ph.D., Columbia University)
Professor of Old Testament, United Theological Seminary, OH
* Genesis
* Abraham
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John
Edward Ferguson, Jr. (J.D., Vanderbilt University)
Law Professor, Howard Payne University, TX
Attorney, First Amendment Center, VA
* First Amendment Guidelines
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Tremper
Longman III (Ph.D., Yale University)
Robert H. Gundry Professor of Biblical Studies, Department
Chair,
Westmont College, CA
* Hebrew Poetry
* Wisdom Literature
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Mikeal C.
Parsons (Ph.D., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary)
Kidd L. and Buna Hitchcock Macon Chair in Religion, Baylor
University, TX
* Life and Teachings of Jesus
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Leland
Ryken (Ph.D., University of Oregon)
Clyde S. Kilby Professor of English, Wheaton College, IL
* Introduction to Bible Literature Teaching
* Introduction to the New Testament
* Acts
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Hans
Spalteholz (M.A., Columbia University;
A.M., Divinity School, University of Chicago)
Professor of English and Religion, Emeritus, Concordia University,
Portland, OR
* Moses
* Prophets
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