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