From Research to Teaching: A Guide to Beginning Your Classroom Career

by Michael Kibbe

Publisher:

IVP Academic

, 2021

Overview

It’s a long way from the research carrel to the classroom. No matter your personality, your prior experience, or the specifics of your situation, the transition from graduate studies to teaching involves a set of challenges for which no one is ever fully prepared. In this practical guide Michael Kibbe, author of From Topic to Thesis, provides a helpful companion for the journey.

With plenty of personal examples and tested advice, Kibbe covers preparation for teaching, best practices in the classroom, self-evaluation, and the discovery of your mission and method. He also reflects on the spiritual lives of professors, including social media practices, Sabbath, and relationships. From Research to Teaching is the concise, accessible resource every new and aspiring professor needs.

Key Features

• Covers preparation for teaching, best practices in the classroom, self-evaluation, and the discovery of your mission and method
• Provides a concise, accessible resource every new and aspiring professor needs
• Reflects on the spiritual lives of professors

Contents

• Introduction
• Before the Classroom: Preparation
• In the Classroom: Execution
• After the Classroom: Reflection
• Mission and Method
• Community
• Limitations
• Effects
• Conclusion
• Appendix A: Using Your Dissertation in the Classroom
• Appendix B: A Plea to Graduate Schools
• Appendix C: Great Teaching Resources

Endorsements

Mike Kibbe is now a young professor with sufficient time under his belt that he knows what it means to have three preps in a semester. He knows the pitfalls of too much preparation and not enough. He knows something about faculty life and faculty despair. And he has weathered these many storms successfully. Mike's simple outline tells you all you need to know before you step into your first class at a college, university, or seminary. First, what do teachers do? What is required as we (a) prepare for class, (b) teach a class, and (c) reflect on the experience afterward? Here is an avalanche of wisdom that is written in a fun, provocative, challenging way that will guide you through the forest and out the other side. Don't be deceived by his writing style: Mike is writing as if he were with you at Starbucks and telling you secrets. These are the sorts of secrets you'd find yourself writing down. On almost every page you'll say, 'Ah! That's me!' because his truths are that universal.

Gary M. Burge, dean of the faculty and professor of New Testament, Calvin Theological Seminary

Warmly relatable and incredibly practical, Kibbe’s small guide achieves great things, or, better said, makes it possible for readers to achieve great things. He presents more than anyone could ever accomplish before tenure (or maybe in a lifetime of teaching), but that means this will be a volume educators will want to keep readily accessible. I know this will benefit my students who are training for the academy because it has already been a tangible benefit to me.

—Amy Peeler, associate professor of New Testament at Wheaton College and Graduate School

Mike Kibbe has a rare gift for being able to pass along not just the content of his expertise but the process that got him there. He shares his hard-earned wisdom for teaching well without losing your soul in the process. The result is a lively and engaging tutorial in the art of becoming a world-class professor. I couldn't put it down. Grab a copy for every recent PhD you know in Bible, theology, or related disciplines. They'll thank you!

Carmen Joy Imes, associate professor of Old Testament at Prairie College in Three Hills, Alberta

Product Details

• Title: From Research to Teaching: A Guide to Beginning Your Classroom Career
• Author: Michael Kibbe
• Publisher: IVP Academic
• Print Publication Date: 2021
• Logos Release Date: 2021
• Pages: 138
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: First year teachers; College teaching; Religious educators; Teacher effectiveness; School-to-work transition
• ISBNs: 9780830839193, 9780830839186, 0830839194, 0830839186
• Resource ID: LLS:RSRCHTCHNGCLCRR
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:47:48Z

About Michael Kibbe

Michael Kibbe, is associate professor of Bible and academic dean at Great Northern University in Spokane, WA. He received his PhD in New Testament from Wheaton College, and taught previously at Wheaton College and Moody Bible Institute. His other books include From Topic to Thesis, From Research to Teaching, and Godly Fear or Ungodly Failure: Hebrews 12 and the Sinai Theophanies. He and his wife, Annie, live in Spokane with their three children.