Conference Session

Biological and Agricultural Tech Session I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stacy Klein-Gardner; Rick Williams, East Carolina University; Stephanie Sullivan, East Carolina University; Loren Limberis, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

effectiveness of their teaching. Finally, a learning environment mustbe community-centered, one in which students are provided opportunities to learncollaboratively.There are many efforts underway within STEM education to move away from traditional lecturemethods of delivery towards more novel methods designed to engage the students in the learningprocess.9-12 In many cases, these methods are taking the How People Learn concepts fromtheory to practice. The highlights of two specific programs, Project Galileo11 and VaNTH12follow.Project Galileo has developed two novel pedagogical approaches: Peer Instruction and Just-in-Time Teaching. These approaches are designed to provide students “with greater opportunity forsynthesizing concepts while instructors