Pedagogy in Action

One of the reasons I am here is to learn this pedagogy in order to increase my own effectiveness in teaching biblical Hebrew. I have certainly gained tremendous insights as to how I can do this back at Bethel Seminary.

A very simple, though effective, practice is to act out the texts we are reading. It helps the students to be able to visualize what is going on and make the account more than just squiggles on the page, but an actual account that was intended to communicate to the original audience.

Here is a picture of my group reading and acting out the account in Judges 13. It certainly adds to the interest to be reading the account of Samson's birth while sitting on the ruins of the town and having passed the fields in which the action takes place!