Regent School of Undergraduate Studies MISSION
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Regent School of Undergraduate Studies
Mentoring Christian Faculty
Fall Faculty WorkshopAugust 01, 2008
J. Thomas Whetstone, D.Phil.
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Regent School of Undergraduate StudiesMISSION
• Excellence in academic standards and• Teaching according to a biblical worldview
– Equipping “Christian leaders to change the world”
»This is demanding
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Building the Right Culture
• Work at it
• First, hire committed Christian teachers• But, are they prepared to teach according to a biblical
worldview?»Mentoring is required
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Faculty Mentoring
* Tenure paper* Pre-tenure paper and review* Faculty orientation readings and discussions* Workshops* Mutual mentoring in a community relationship* Course development * Faculty research, colloquium* Monitoring and mentoring by Chairs
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Mentoring Adjunct Instructors
• Difficulties:
– Part-time vocation
– Remote locations
– Not integral part of on campus community
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Mentoring Adjunct Faculty
• Annual faculty workshops• Mentoring by chairs and full-time faculty• Mentoring network led by experienced adjuncts• Compensation (proposed)– Faith integration paper for highest level
• A sample workshop paper will be presented• Please question and share your successes
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Teaching from a Christian Worldview--Including Use of Secular Materials
J. Thomas Whetstone, D.Phil.
w/Drs. Sandra Bryant & Almarie Munley
11 August 2007
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Teaching the Truth with Academic Excellence
3 C’s for Faith Integration
• Core presuppositions– Worldview perspective
• Context– Teacher’s example– Institution’s support– Student expectations
• Content– Texts (secular, even anti-faith?)– Literature of discipline– Assignments-discussions, cases, essays, exams
• As in a 3-legged stool, all C’s are needed But only after two prior C’s…
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Commitment to Calling• Challenge:
– How is Your personal relationship & walk with Christ? • Examine yourself• Confess, Pray
– For self– For students– For Regent & Forgive
– Are you content in your calling to teach?• Still excited, love to engage students in subject• Delighted when students apply their faith
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Teaching the Truth with Academic Excellence:Core Presuppositions: Worldview
At Regent, our instructional materials and instructors’
teaching is to frame the courses we teach from a deliberately Christian worldview.
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Alternative Worldviews MODERNISM• Human Reason #1
• Progress inevitable• Human is exalted• No transcendent God
– (materialistic)• Ethics a human invention
– Relativism -->Judges 21:25
POSTMODERNISM• No truth, reality
– Socially constructed• Power prevails• Individual insignificant• God is dead
– (anti-God, anti-modernism)• Ethics does not exist
– W/o God, all is possible• (Dostoevsky)
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Christian Worldview• Reveals our true values re:
(A. Kuyper)– Our relationship to God– Our relationship to man (and ourselves)– Our relationship to the world
• Students need to assess subjects, text starting with worldview differences
• Apply consistently from a Christian worldview
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Teaching the Truth with Academic Excellence:Context
• The teacher is the role model– Personal example—intro, counsel, life– Prayer Discussion Board & prayer for students– Theme scripture, announcements– Devotionals– Comments & questions—discussions, essays, exams
• Regent’s mission• Students expect faith integration– Diversity of theologies, may need to clarify, teach
openness with compassion, Ephesians 4:15
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Teaching the Truth with Academic Excellence:Content
• First, assess the discipline itself– A. Compatibilist (complementary)
• (e.g., Mathematics, Classical Music)– B. Transformationalist (valuable insights, but needs a
Christian orientation—major changes, interpretations needed• (e.g., Organizational Behavior, Ethics, Political Science)
– C. Reconstructionist (at odds with Christianity)• Reject and radically redo biblically• (e.g., Anthropology, Astrology, Linguistics?)
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Example: Systems Thinking
• Assessment of OLAM 310 Systems Thinking, text: Peter Senge’s The Fifth Discipline (1990, 2006):
a. Text’s worldview is materialistic, naturalistic
b. But structure, process is edifying-Problem is values, not basic structure of
discipline -Systems Thinking is Transformationalist-We should teach it per Christian worldview, biblical perspective-Apply it as we love God & man with our minds
(Whetstone, 2007)
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Teaching the Truth with Academic Excellence:
Content:Textbooks• Key literature of a field often is secular, even
anti-faith• Students need to know • Banning such texts a disservice to students• Add texts, materials, interpretations from
Christian perspective• Challenge students to discern and apply
consistently w/ Christian worldview
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Teaching the Truth with Academic Excellence:
Content: Assignments
• Readings—Christian authors• Discussion—Questions and follow-ups asking
for approaches best for a Christian• Essays—Christian themes and propositions• Exams—Questions asking for Christian
interpretation, conclusions, recommended application
• Other?
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Teaching the Truth with Academic Excellence:
What Ways Have You Found?• Example:– Almarie Munley
• Dialogue in small groups
• Share a favorite example
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Teaching the Truth with Academic Excellence:OUR CHALLENGE
• Continue to ponder, try out, share– Throughout this workshop– As you teach
• This is difficult… – But the LORD will guide
and bless us if we remain faithful
– Educating Christian leaders to change the world
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Your Input
• Comments• Questions?
• What have you done that works?
• Discussion
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The End
• Thank you all.
• May God bless you.
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Finis
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Mentoring Adjunct Christian Teachers
J. Thomas Whetstone, D.Phil Regent School of Undergraduate Studies
3rd Annual No Educator Left Behind Conference 20 June 2008 Indiana Wesleyan University
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PLEASE RISE
• Let us sing to the LORD
Led by Dr. Almarie Munley
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What a Friend We Have in Jesus
What a Friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear!
What a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer!
O what peace we often forfeit, O what needless pain we bear,
All because we do not carry everything to God in prayer.
Amen.
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Your Input
• Comments• Questions?
• What does your college do?
• Discussion