Episode 194 Teaching for Transformation: Lessons from 25 Years in the Classroom

Brian Russell (Ph.D., Professor of Biblical Studies) shares key lessons on teaching for transformation from 25 years as a professor at Asbury Theological Seminary.

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 Key Lessons: 

1 Focus on helping your audience succeed

2 People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care. –John Maxwell 

3 Help your audience draw on their core “why” for internal motivation. 

4 Your audience wants feedback from you (“Grade your own papers.”)

5 Master verbal kung-fu 

6 Don’t be a prisoner to technology 

7 Build systems so that you can give high touch on what matters most to your students 

8 Overdeliver. 

9 Future pace your students. 

10. Share yourself

11. Learn and implement new tactics or techniques annually

12. Continuous quality improvement

13. Figure out the 20% that delivers 80% of the value and focus on it

14. Deliver an experience and  help students integrate learning immediately into their life

15. Set an intention each day for how you will show up: Curious. Interested. Committed.

16. Remember what it’s like to be student.

17. Only as good as your last class/session

Brian Russell’s Books 
Astonished by the Word: Reading Scripture for Deep Transformation https://amzn.to/3uuWCoQ     

Centering Prayer: Sitting Quietly in God’s Presence Can Change Your Life https://amzn.to/2S0AcIZ

(Re)Aligning with God: Reading Scripture for Church and World (Cascade Books) https://amzn.to/30tP4S9

 Invitation: A Bible Study to Begin With (Seedbed) https://my.seedbed.com/product/onebook-invitation-by-brian-russell/

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