Engaging Students through Issues-Based Topics
Start Date
8-15-2018 12:00 AM
Description
This session presents teaching strategies for student engagement that increase understanding and help students broaden their personal perspectives when addressing issues in agriculture. Designed to include all styles of learners, these hands-on strategies give students ownership of their learning. Issues-based topics can be taught using creative techniques, like readers’ theater, futures wheel, concept maps, infographics, social media positions, decision matrices and many more, that give students opportunities to share their voices and think critically. These strategies will also help students who may feel vulnerable expressing their opinions or openly changing their opinions. The session will discuss options for instructors with large and small class sizes. This session is a great connecting piece to the Facticity conversation and seminars that occurred during fall and spring semester.
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Engaging Students through Issues-Based Topics
This session presents teaching strategies for student engagement that increase understanding and help students broaden their personal perspectives when addressing issues in agriculture. Designed to include all styles of learners, these hands-on strategies give students ownership of their learning. Issues-based topics can be taught using creative techniques, like readers’ theater, futures wheel, concept maps, infographics, social media positions, decision matrices and many more, that give students opportunities to share their voices and think critically. These strategies will also help students who may feel vulnerable expressing their opinions or openly changing their opinions. The session will discuss options for instructors with large and small class sizes. This session is a great connecting piece to the Facticity conversation and seminars that occurred during fall and spring semester.