Writing for TEE: A Handbook for Authors
Dr Harms has over 50 years of experience in theological education, specifically in TEE. He was heavily involved in one of Africa’s oldest and most innovative TEE programmes of the Mekane Yesu church in Ethiopia. He also founded a TEE programme in his own denomination in Germany. He was also involved in multiple regional TEE workshops in the 1980s and 1990s.
“Writing for TEE” was initially written as a sequence to the book “Training T.E.E. Leaders: A Course Guide” edited by Margaret Thornton and published by Evangel Publishing House, Nairobi 1990. The former was a book about training group leaders and tutors, while “Writing for TEE” is a handbook for TEE course writers, authors, and trainers of course writers of TEE material. The book grew from 50 years of experience with theological distance education and different types of self-study materials. The content was tested in several workshops to train TEE writers and coordinators.
“Writing for TEE” was designed to train TEE writers in Programmed Instruction (PI) and Semi-Programmed Instruction (SPI) methodologies, but its content and details go beyond it and are equally useful for course writers of other types of TEE materials as well as in helping teachers to create TEE study guides to accompany existing textbooks. The book guides writers in preparing good teaching material for use in TEE programmes.