Like all servant communication, Christian teaching is a combination of art (skill), and soul (heart, or compassion) meant to serve others. This is especially true in Christian higher education, where the goal is not just to transmit information but to nurture students to become wise, skilled, and faithful servant leaders.
I taught for 33 years at Calvin University. I tested and refined highly effective ways of teaching Christian college students that increased student performance and retention while filling me with joy, reducing my stress, and boosting my self-confidence. It was a win-win-win situation for me, my students, and the university.
Along the way I taught courses at other Christian colleges and seminaries to refine my practical pedagogy for diverse student populations and Christian traditions. I still mentor faculty at many Christian colleges. I co-taught online with a master distance-education professor at Spring Arbor University to learn from the best of the best. Later, I taught at the doctoral level in a hybrid course for another school, with 3 months for the course and one week on campus.
I took early retirement from Calvin in 2015 partly to spend more time mentoring teaching faculty at other Christian universities. I also began offering master-teaching and faith-integration workshops for Christian schools. These have been very well received.
Now I am developing an effective and inexpensive means of offering master-teaching workshops via a combination of webinars, online interaction, and personal mentoring of both teachers (full and part-time faculty) and the professional-development leaders at Christian colleges and universities.
Other topics that have come up in my interviews with college faculty and administrators include:
1) integrating faith and learning for traditional undergraduate college students as well as older learners,
2) cultivating civil discourse on a Christian college campus, and
3) teaching in such a way that it leads to faculty publications, particularly trade books that can be used as supplemental college textbooks and church-education books.
For more information or just to dialogue, please email me at: qschultze at gmail.com
I’d love to hear from you, especially how I might serve you personally or institutionally.
—Quin Schultze, PhD
P.S. You might like to see my 12-part video series on integrating faith and learning in the field of communication studies.
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