On Nov. 16, professor Eddie Cloer chooses artwork for his New Testament Survey class. Cloer used students' artwork to help illustrate his lessons. Ashe/ Parsons Dr. Cloer displays the students' work while teaching his freshman Bible class on jon. 24. Cloer said that through drawing the illustrations, students hove the opportunity to deepen their faith. Ashe/ Parsons ~cQ]cQ]~® Cloer teaches class with student artwork The lesson plans for Dr. Eddie Cloer's New Testament Survey class were found in the most unlikely of places: the doodles in a student's notebook. After Cloer noticed a talented student's cartoons on his notes, he asked the young man if he could draw a picture of the Bible lesson for each day of the class, which Cloer then posted for the entire class to view and discuss. Eventually that unconventional teaching method turned into what Cloer called "Drawing Your Faith," a time for freshmen to learn how to develop their own view on Christianity. Cloer said he always tried to tie his class in with the natural talent of students in his class. "I believe the students like to see how another student sees what the event in the Scriptures may have looked like." Cloer said. "The picture, I think, relaxes them just a little, as they wait the next time to write down further notes." Freshman Whitney Steele found that the class led her to be more mindful of the things she did in her daily life. "The way [Dr. Cloer] taught made me crave to read more of the Bible," 15 6 leadership Steele said. "I enjoyed the whole class." Cloer typically used one or two pictures in each class, in hopes that they provided a break for the students. According to Cloer, the depictions varied: some were simple, some had a funny turn to them and some were very serious. After several years of having students draw pictures for both Old and New Testament Survey, Cloer had his own version of the lllustrafu.d Bible. "The lesso1\teaching the death and the resurrection of Christ was my favorite," freshman Haley Thomas said. "[Cloer] always gave examples of how to relata't'he section of the Bible we were studying to our lives." Although (Jfoer did not usually give extra credit for the drawings, he said he felt pleased with the progress he saw students make when they could look at a visual of their own faith. "Seriously, I treasure them," Cloer said. "They bring back to me wonderful memories of the very talented students I have had in my classes over the years. May God bless every one of them." Kelsey Sherrod/ Ryan Orr
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