Symposium

On Friday, October 12, 2018, in honor of our tenth anniversary, the ATL hosted Called to Teach, a symposium featuring presentations from educators across the University.

Many of the symposium presentations will appear in a forthcoming volume (edited by Christopher Richmann and Lenore Wright) entitled, Called to Teach: Excellence, Commitment, and Community in Christian Higher Education. Through this collection, the wisdom, experience, and insight of Baylor’s leading voices on teaching will continue to “inspire a community of learning,” both at Baylor and beyond.

Schedule of Events

• 9:10-9:50 -- Opening Presentation
  • Robert Baird, "Baylor’s History of Teaching Excellence"
• 10:00-11:00 -- Concurrent Sessions
  • Teaching Future Faculty
    • Anne-Marie Schultz, "Forming Philosophy Teachers: Using a Plato Graduate Seminar as Pedagogical Training and Professional Development"
    • T. Laine Scales, "Our Future Faculty as Stewards of the Academy"
  • The Vocation of the Christian Teacher
    • Nathan Alleman and Perry Glanzer, "The Outrageous Idea of Christian Teaching"
• 11:10-12:10 -- Concurrent Sessions
  • Learning from Experience
    • Mona Choucair, "Lovin’ the Skin I’m In: The Need for Stories via Young Adult Literature in the Secondary Classroom"
    • Alexander Beaujean, "Learning From a (Master) Teacher: My Semester Observing Roger Kirk"
  • Reflecting on Baylor’s Strengths and Opportunities
    • Elizabeth Palacios, "Embracing Diversity through Cultural Humility"
    • Elizabeth Vardaman, "In Praise of Fireflies, Skeletons, and the Abbott’s Pew: Distinctives in the Deep Heart’s Core of Baylor"
• 12:20-1:50 -- Lunch and Plenary Address
  • Alison Cook-Sather, "An Evolving Call to Teach: Moving from Sharing Passions to Making Space"
• 2:00-3:00 -- Concurrent Sessions
  • Testing Classroom Approaches
    • Trey Cade, "An Inquiry-Based Approach to Teaching Space Weather to Non-Science Majors"
    • Bill Bellinger and Rebecca Poe Hays, "Teaching the Psalms: A Vocational Reflection"
  • Instructor Behavior and Identity
    • Byron Newberry, "Teacher Authority and the Student-Teacher Relationship: Searching for the Golden Mean"
    • Andy Arterbury, "Responding to Bad Questions and Poor Answers"
• 3:10-4:10 -- Concurrent Sessions
  • Spirituality on Campus
    • Burt Burleson, "Nurturing Spiritual Intelligence through the Classroom"
    • Candi Cann, "Christian Community: Integrating God’s Vision with Residential Life and Academic Teaching"
  • Teaching for Life Beyond the University
    • Jon Singletary, "Discerning Vocation in Professional Education"
    • Laurel Zeiss, "Why Study Music?"
• 4:20-5:00 -- Closing Presentation
  • Tom Hanks, "An Impossible Epilogue"