Book Title: The Art and Science of Teaching Agriculture: Four Keys to Dynamic Learning

Authors: M. Susie Whittington; Rick Rudd; and Jack Elliot

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Book Description: The Art and Science of Teaching Agriculture: Four Keys to Dynamic Learning is a methods of teaching book. Specifically, it is a collection of thoughts, best practices, strategies, and techniques for planning, delivering, and assessing teaching and learning. This resource is assembled from among the best teaching professors in agricultural communication, education, and leadership in America. They have narrated their favorite class sessions … sessions chosen with the goal of making us all better teachers.

You will quickly grasp the four fundamental keys of solid, basic, time-tested formal and nonformal teaching: Laying the Foundation, Connecting with Students, Designing Instruction, and Applying Learning. These keys are shared with you through the unique voices of the authors to provide a multiperspective approach to teaching.

The authors offer both secondary and postsecondary educators in both formal and nonformal educational environments the opportunity to build confidence in planning, delivering, and assessing the depths of the variables inherent in learning.

You will acquire the foundation to teach so your learners can learn dynamically!

Access other formats of the text (PDF, ePub, and a link to the print version) here: https://doi.org/10.21061/teachagriculture.

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Book Description

The Art and Science of Teaching Agriculture: Four Keys to Dynamic Learning is a methods of teaching book. Specifically, it is a collection of thoughts, best practices, strategies, and techniques for planning, delivering, and assessing teaching and learning. This resource is assembled from among the best teaching professors in agricultural communication, education, and leadership in America. They have narrated their favorite class sessions … sessions chosen with the goal of making us all better teachers.

You will quickly grasp the four fundamental keys of solid, basic, time-tested formal and nonformal teaching: Laying the Foundation, Connecting with Students, Designing Instruction, and Applying Learning. These keys are shared with you through the unique voices of the authors to provide a multiperspective approach to teaching.

The authors offer both secondary and postsecondary educators in both formal and nonformal educational environments the opportunity to build confidence in planning, delivering, and assessing the depths of the variables inherent in learning.

You will acquire the foundation to teach so your learners can learn dynamically!

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M. Susie Whittington; Rick Rudd; and Jack Elliot

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The Art and Science of Teaching Agriculture: Four Keys to Dynamic Learning
Authors
M. Susie Whittington; Rick Rudd; and Jack Elliot
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Suggested citation: Whittington, M. Susie, Rick Rudd, and Jack Elliot, ed. (2023). The Art and Science of Teaching Agriculture: Four Keys to Dynamic Learning. Blacksburg: Virginia Tech Department of Agricultural, Leadership, and Community Education. https://doi.org/10.21061/teachagriculture. Licensed with CC BY-NC 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0.

Publisher: This work is published by the Virginia Tech Department of Agriculture, Leadership, and Community Education in association with Virginia Tech Publishing and the Open Education Initiative of the University Libraries at Virginia Tech.

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Publication cataloging information:

Susie Whittington, Rick Rudd, and Jack Elliott, editors

The Art and Science of Teaching Agriculture / M. Susie Whittington, Rick Rudd, and Jack Elliot

Pages cm

ISBN 978-1-957213-71-2 (PDF)

ISBN 978-1-957213-66-8 (Print)

ISBN 978-1-957213-70-5 (ePub)

ISBN 978-1-957213-72-9 (Pressbooks)

URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/116050

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21061/teachagriculture

  1. Agriculture–Study and teaching–Textbooks.

Art and Science of Teaching Agriculture: Four Keys to Dynamic Learning, The

Title S531.A78 

Cover design & illustrations: Kindred Grey

Primary Subject
Education
Additional Subject(s)
Agriculture and farming, Agricultural science, Educational: Agriculture, horticulture and related subjects
Institution
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Publisher
Virginia Tech Department of Agriculture, Leadership, and Community Education in association with Virginia Tech Publishing and the Open Education Initiative of the University Libraries at Virginia Tech
Publication Date
December 1, 2023
Ebook ISBN
978-1-957213-72-9
Print ISBN
978-1-957213-66-8