Methods of Teaching Agriculture and Environmental Science

Catalog description

Instructional strategies and media; directing individual and group learning activities; assessing student performance and quality of instruction in vocational agriculture. AEE 412 Methods of Teaching Agriculture and Environmental Science (4) This course is designed to utilize various instructional strategies and media, which inform students in the directing of individual and group learning activities. Students also learn methods in which to assess student performance and quality of instruction in school-based agricultural education. The course allows students to analyze, and implement, how they best can design instruction to maximize student learning. A range of teaching methods are utilized throughout the course including, but not limited to; lectures, discussions, demonstrations, supervised study, and cooperative learning. The course prepares students to successfully develop engaging lessons and units of instruction in agricultural education. Additionally, students will learn how to modify instruction to allow each learner the opportunity to achieve total student success. A laboratory enables student to refine their skills in a peer setting, prior to the student teaching internship experience. The combination of lecture and laboratory allow students to become reflective practitioners that are capable of planning, organizing, and implementing effective teaching practices and learning experiences for their students. Also, this course will provide students the opportunity to develop the capacity to evaluate student learning utilizing both formative and summative evaluation techniques.