Connecting with Students

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Connecting with Students

• Jerry Hawkes, Cynda Clary, Jack Thomas, Jim
  Libbin and Priscilla Bloomquist

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Connecting through Content Management
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AG E 305 Marketing and Pricing Agricultural
Products

• Description of agricultural processes and
  functions, food production and consumption
  patterns agricultural product prices, nature of
  competition in agricultural product markets
  commodity markets

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One Minute Feedback Form

• Attendance
• Improve lectures
• Three questions

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Initial Results

• Questions
• What to do with the information?

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Creating Interaction

• Speech Fundamentals
• Classroom and archive

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Class Agenda

• Topic
• Terminology
• Articles
• International Focus
• Assignment
• Quote of the Day
• Announcements

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Feedback Form Comments

• Address questions
• Reinforce concepts
• Support agenda and exam

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Calendar Archive
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Exam Review

• Use questions
• Link to agenda and feedback form comments

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Evaluation

• Extended the conversation
• Reinforced learning
• Improved lectures
• Over time, should questions be minimized?

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Biographical Information

• Standard info
• Major, hometown, career goals, parents
  occupation
• Experience with livestock
• Extracurricular activities
• Foreign countries visited
• Special talents such as
• Can you do complex math in your head, can you
  burb the alphabet, etc.

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TEAM BASED LEARNING

• THE THOMAS MODIFIED VERSION

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KEY POINTS

• Randomly assign teams
• 6 to 8 per team
• No projects done outside of class
• This prevents divide and conquer process
• Tests done individually then as a group
• Use scratch off sheets

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Key Points

• Written protest
• Peer evaluation

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Discussion-Based Teaching

• Object is learning not teaching
• How do students learn?
• Actively involved
• Engaged
• One method Discussion Cases
• Not necessarily the same as case studies
• Seldom is there a direct answer
• Difficult concept for some students
• Not new
• Harvard Business School
• Many other business schools
• University of Minnesota College of Agriculture

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An Effective Classroom Layout
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Low Rising Classroom
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Materials

• Stephen D. Brookfield and Stephen Preskill,
  Discussion as a Way of Teaching, Jossey-Bass,
  2005
• C. Roland Christensen, David A. Garvin, and Ann
  Sweet, eds. Education for Judgment The
  Artistry of Discussion Leadership, Harvard
  Business School Press, 1991
• Louis B. Barnes, C. Roland Christensen, and Abby
  J. Hansen, Teaching and the Case Method, HBSP,
  1994
• North American Case Research Association, Case
  Research Journal
• Harvard Business School Press
• Harvard Kennedy School of Government

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