Course Description
Acquaints prospective elementary teachers with current methodologies of teaching agriscience and provides practical experience, theoretical background, and pedagogical content knowledge. This will be accomplished through modeling and by learning to design inquiry-based lessons that provide strategies for the challenges unique to teaching agriscience.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students:
Annotated Bibliography: Graduate students will identify an instructional strategy, and search all appropriate and related refereed journals to develop an annotated bibliography pertaining to the instructional strategy.
Designed Research Project: Graduate students will design and initiate a research study related to an instructional strategy in agricultural education.
Athena Title
Methods of Elementary Agriscie
Prerequisite
EDUC 2110 or EDUC 2110E or EDUC 2110H
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
1. Students will be able to understand the current models of agriscience teaching and learning. 2. Students will be able to develop inquiry-based, learner-centered lesson plans that encourage all children to succeed in agriscience. 3. Students will be able to utilize pedagogical strategies where students actively construct knowledge. 4. Students will be able to integrate all subjects and agriscience. 5. Students will be able to describe how to successfully manage the laboratory situation in the classroom. 6. Students will be able to: a. describe the many different educational journals that are available. b. explain the advantages of belonging to agricultural professional organizations. c. compare and contrast the advantages and disadvantages of off-the-shelf agriscience lessons. d. develop collaborative, inquiry-based, student-centered agriscience units. e. connect agriscience in the classroom to the outside world. f. implement national and state agriscience standards. 7. Students will be able to competently and confidently teach elementary agriscience. We will implement a positive classroom atmosphere that encourages all students to contribute and take risks as learners. 8. Students will be able to use technology and apply its use in the elementary classroom to effectively enhance agriscience education.
Topical Outline
Learning Styles and Personality Types Writing Appropriate Objectives Interest Approach Experiential Learning Teaching Method Problem Solving Teaching Method Events to Instruction Lesson Plans and Life Knowledge Lesson Plans Inquiry-Based Instruction Micro-Teaching I Micro-Teaching II SmartBoard and Classroom Tech Core Subject Integration Student Discipline Micro-Teaching III Modifications Based on Cultural Differences Group Teaching Techniques Evaluating Students Individualized Teaching Techniques Micro-Teaching IV
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