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Teaching

 

Teaching competencies

  1. •Intro to Theology / Constructive Theology

  2. •Intro to Ethics

  3. •Feminist Theology and Ethics

  4. •Sexual Ethics

  5. •Healthcare Ethics; Bioethics (Or topical courses on issues such as HIV/AIDS, Global Health Inequalities, or Inequalities of access in US healthcare)

  6. •Christian Marriage and Family

  7. •Postcolonial Theology and Ethics; Globalization and Ethics

  8. •Migration (US immigration, Global migration, refugees and conflict)

  9. •African Theology and Ethics

  10. •Missions


Syllabi and teaching tools

  1. •Syllabus for IB 551 - Ethical Forms (Lexington Theological Seminary, Fall 2011)

  2. •Syllabus for THEO 192 - Moral Problems: HIV/AIDS in Global Perspective (Loyola Chicago, Spring 2009)

  3. •Sample Powerpoint Presentation 1 (HIV/AIDS in Global Perspective) - This powerpoint presentation was used to introduce methods in ethics that were being used in the course.

  4. •Sample Powerpoint Presentation 2 (HIV/AIDS in Global Perspective) - This powerpoint presentation was used to introduce HIV/AIDS and give information on the origin of the disease, as well as current statistics. Within the presentation, videos are used to show archived news stories and to show a clip of Kami, the HIV+ muppet from Takalani Sesame (Sesame Street, South Africa).

  5. •Sample Student Podcast - Required group assignment (HIV/AIDS in Global Perspective)

  6. •Sample Handout - Review of readings on methods in ethics (HIV/AIDS in Global Perspective)

  7. •Sample Assignment- Survey of HIV/AIDS knowledge - Students were required to interview students on campus and then write a paper or create a podcast with the new data. (HIV/AIDS in Global Perspective)


Teaching reviews


  1. •Complete Student Reviews - (HIV/AIDS in Global Perspective)

  2. •Class Visitation Report by Teaching Mentor - (HIV/AIDS in Global Perspective)


Pedagogy & Pedagogy Training

  1. •Philosophy of Teaching Statement (Download as a PDF)

  2. •Certification - Pedagogy I and Pedagogy II - Loyola University Chicago

  3. •Multiple workshops on teaching and research: Loyola University Chicago Focus on Teaching, Spring 2009; Refworks workshop, 2007; Blackboard workshop, 2006.


Pedagogy projects

  1. •Embodied Participatory Learning: Engaging African Communal Theology as a Method of Feminist Pedagogy (2007)

  2. •Exploring Global Feminist Theologies in Postcolonial Space: Kenya Immersion Project (2009) - Download Summary of Project


Pedagogy related Publications


  1. •"The Goods and Evils of a Globalized Context: African and American Women Doing Theology," with Susan A. Ross and Elisabeth T. Vasko, Concilium International Journal of Theology, 2009/1.

  2. •"Listening in the Classroom,” Christian Reflection: A Series in Faith and Ethics, April 2009.

  3. •“Hurry Up and Wait,” Africa ’05 Bound Journal, Spring 2005. (Written for a Baylor Study Abroad program)

  4. •“Things Fall Apart: A Look at Chinua Achebe’s Novel," Africa ’05 Bound Journal, Spring 2005. (Written for a Baylor Study Abroad program)


Pedagogy related Presentations


  1. •Practicing Postcolonial Feminist Theology Cross-culturally: A Reflection on the Exploring Global Feminist Theologies Pedagogy Project, with Damaris Parsitau, African Association for the Study of Religions, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, January 17-22, 2010.

  2. •Integrating Activism and Academics, panelist, Loyola University Chicago Graduate Service Resource Forum, Nov. 6, 2008.

  3. •Sex and Sacred Texts: Creating Emancipatory Speech in the Classroom, Paper given as part of a panel presentation entitled Women’s Studies Meets Theology: Sex and Sacred Texts Take the Stage in the Classroom, with Jeanine Viau, Elizabeth Vasko and Mary Moorman National Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, OH, June 19-22, 2008.

  4. •Embodied Participatory Learning: Engaging African Communal Theology as a Method of Feminist Pedagogy, Presentation by the Women in Theology reading group, sponsored by the Joan and Bill Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage, Loyola University, October 17, 2007.


Experience with Immersion/Study Abroad Programs


  1. •Coordinated the Global Feminist Theologies in Postcolonial Space Kenya Immersion project, 2009

  2. •Graduate mentor for Loyola Campus Ministries immersion trip, 2009

  3. •Assisted with Passport Kenya Camp (for high school students from Kenya and the US), 2003, 2005

  4. •Led a church-based Kenya Immersion program for Calvary Baptist Church, Waco, Texas, 2003

  5. •Assisted with Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond Kenya immersion program, 2003

  6. •Participant in Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond Kenya immersion program, 2001

  7. •Student at the Maryknoll Institute of African Studies, Nairobi, Kenya - 2001, 2004, 2009

  8. •Participant in Gardner-Webb University's Honduras immersion-based mission trip, 1999

  9. •Undergraduate participant in Baylor in Africa semester abroad program, Kenya and Tanzania, 1998


International experience


  1. •Research, study and work experience in Kenya (2 yrs), Tanzania (1 yr), and South Africa (3 months)

  2. •Papers given at international conferences in Botswana, Norway, and Nigeria

  3. •Mission/immersion trips in Honduras, Kenya and Mexico

  4. •Writing/work assignments in Slovakia, Ethiopia, Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, & Canada

  5. •Travel in Uganda, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Egypt, Malawi, United Arab Emirates, Cayman Islands, France (Paris), Netherlands (Amsterdam), UK (London), Austria, Hungary, China, Hong Kong, Macau