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The Touchstone course (“Developing the Focused Life”) has been taught 30 times since Rockbridge Seminary was launched, more than any course in our curriculum. It was the first course taught (January 2004) and has been taught every term since. Touchstone has not only been tweaked more than any other course, but also has served as a laboratory for course design as the Rockbridge Seminary learning approach emerged.
Still, with all of these tweaks, the course needed an upgrade to give it (based on student evaluation feedback):
1. More focus
2. More substance
3. A rearrangement of content so that the mentor materials could be closer to the front of the course
Over the last two terms, Touchstone has undergone an upgrade addressing these three needs. First, a required textbook has been added: The Making of a Leader by J Robert Clinton. Clinton’s book provides the foundational material on which the three self-discovery workbooks are based and will give the course more depth. Second, the course materials have been rearranged so that the self-discovery workbooks are completed during Units 2, 3, and 4. That moves the mentor materials into the first half of the term. Third, units 2-4 are more focused, with forum discussion questions and surveys building on the readings and workbook exercises. Materials in Units 2-4 that are not pertinent to the workbook or textbook learning exercises have been removed.
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