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Summer Institute

"Instruct the wise and they will be wiser still; teach the righteous and they will add to their learning. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding."
Proverbs 9:9-10 (NIV)
 

Summer Institute is an program offered to faculty that focuses on the incorporation of biblical foundations for faith and learning. This program is offered each summer by the Center for Teaching Excellence and Biblical Foundations of Faith and Learning, in partnership with McKee Library and Southern Online Campus. 

This will be an intensive one-week immersion where participating faculty will design one course to create engaging, effective, and biblically-grounded curriculum. Participants should be prepared to invest all of this time in deep engagement in the process. Sessions will be interactive and must be attended. We will challenge professors to continually consider new ideas and include novel approaches into their newly designed course, which will identify a biblical course concept, biblical examples, declarative and procedural knowledge components, learning outcomes, and active teaching and learning activities, with a fully developed feedback and an assessment plan.

Curriculum development will be based on the Biblical Course Design Model. Institute attendees will acquire a new lens through which to view teaching to modern learners, active teaching and learning strategies, and ways to move the course design/redesign process forward with other courses.

Program Outcomes: Summer Institute will focus on growing towards being a professor who is professionally, spiritually, mentally, emotionally, and physically healthy.

Program Incentives: Academic Administration is partnering with the CTE-BFFL to provide each professor a $500 stipend once their course design/redesign is fully completed. The newly designed/redesigned course documents are to be submitted before the stipend request will be processed.

Program Eligibility: All full-time and adjunct faculty are encouraged to attend.


Learn More About the Biblical Course Design Model →

Summer Institute Attendees Will Be Able To:

  • Design or redesign a course following Southern's conceptual framework.
  • Generate connections between course concepts and biblical principles.
  • Implement active teaching and learning activities to involve students.
  • Discuss and critique various aspects of the Summer Institute requirements.
  • Understand and meet the needs of the current modern student.
  • Plan to use technology tools to enhance learning for modern learners.