Teaching on the Pulse with Nancy Lynne Westfield

Judged By Your Behavior

Nancy Lynne Westfield is Director of the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion.  In this audioblog, Westfield notes the importance of making sure that one's actions match one's rhetoric. Talk about inclusivity or creativity or perseverance or punctuality or diligence is just that unless teachers also model their expectations and invite colleague critique to make sure that their rhetoric isn't just sound that signifies nothing. 

Senior Scholar as Historian, Gatekeeper, Elder

Nancy Lynne Westfield is Director of the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion.  In this audio blog, Westfield discusses three possible roles for senior scholars at an academic institution. There may be more, but the roles of gatekeeper, historian, and elder are common and visible and may offer a framework for scholars to think about their later years at a school. 

Articulating Your Intellectual Project

Nancy Lynne Westfield is Director of the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion.  It is not enough to have a vague idea of what you're about as a scholar. You must take steps to articulate your intellectual project. It is not your career, not your teaching duties, nor your classes. Your intellectual project is the things to which all those other considerations are bent.  In this audio blog, Nancy Lynne Westfield offers questions to de-mystify one's project. 

Knowing Your Place

Nancy Lynne Westfield discusses the importance of being situated in an institution through deep knowledge about how a place works and then further situating your life's goals in that context and having a plan to make the appropriate shifts.  

Knowing the Storm

Nancy Lynne Westfield recalls a childhood storm that sent all scattering except her Uncle Frank who knew how to discern the nature of the tempest. Westfield invites each of us to know the storm separating temporary turbulence from existential threat. 

Winter Surprise to Bolster & Brighten

Nancy Lynne Westfield discusses ways to be best the winter doldrums by ushering (pleasant) surprises into your world. 

Suspending Time in the Classroom

Risky Stuff

Seeing the Possibility in Students

Teach More Can and Less Can Not

Outshine the Naysayers

Courses are Not Words After All

Kill the Darlings

Don’t Stigmatize, Normalize – Help!

Don’t Stigmatize, Normalize – Help!

Diversity Complicates Seeing

Too Tired to Teach? Consider Contemplation

Original Blog: https://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/2021/10/too-tired-to-teach-consider-contemplation/

Challenging Risk Averse Students

Original Blog: https://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/2021/08/challenging-risk-averse-students/

Get to Know Students with Creative Bravery: One Size Does Not Fit All

Original Blog:  https://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/2021/06/get-to-know-students-with-creative-bravery-one-size-does-not-fit-all/

Keep Looking

Original blog post: https://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/2021/04/keep-looking/

What Do You Need?

Original blog: https://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/2020/08/what-do-you-need/

Consider Waiting

Original Blog Post: https://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/2020/12/consider-waiting/

Bat Report

To read Dr. Westfield's original blog post, "Bat Report," click the link: https://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/2020/09/bat-report/

Hold My Mule

Read the original blog post in Teaching On The Pulse: https://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/2020/12/hold-my-mule/

Teaching While Grieving

Welcome to the Wabash Center's audio blog series - "I'm Just Saying." This is a series of audio recordings of my blog posts. I am Nancy Lynne Westfield, Director of the Wabash Center. Read the original blog post: https://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/2021/01/teaching-while-grieving/