My Name and Address
Dr. Joel D. Heck
Concordia University at Austin
3400 N. Interstate 35
Austin, TX 78758-2799
Telephone: 512-486-1121, or ext. 1121
heckyes@aol.com
joel.heck@concordia.edu

Home: 12062 Lincolnshire Dr., Austin, TX 78758

Hobbies and Interests

Travel, computers, reading (especially the writings of C. S. Lewis), biblical languages, outreach, sports of all kinds (especially baseball [favorite team: Los Angeles Dodgers, link here: Dodger Web Page], softball, basketball, football [favorite team: Green Bay Packers, link here: Green Bay Packers] and table tennis), writing (link to my resume on the left), effective teaching, and publishing.

Family

Wife Cheryl, children Peter (24), Brenda (23), and Alan (19).

What I Do

I am Vice President of Academic Services for Concordia University @ Austin, a school of the Concordia University System and The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod. My major teaching area is Old Testament, but I also teach C. S. Lewis in Concordia's Honors Program. My interest in effective teaching comes especially from an application of Krathwohl's original research on the affective domain as applied in the classroom today, but also from my interest in changing the lives of students through contact with knowledge, especially that which comes from God's Word. 

I also do some writing, as my resume indicates. Currently I am working on a book for Concordia Publishing House that will describe the educational philosophy of C. S. Lewis. It is tentatively entitled On Behalf of Learning and will be released near the end of 2004.

Theology Division

To learn more about my colleagues in the Theology Division at Concordia, click here: My Colleagues in Theology

Leisure Time

To learn about my Table Tennis challenge for students in my classes, click here: Table Tennis Challenge

Resume

To read a more complete resume, click here: More Complete Resume

My Classes

To learn more about any of the following courses, which I teach, click on one of the following links:

REL 1311, History and Literature of the OT
HON 3303, The Writings of C. S. Lewis