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Teacher Training for Graduate Students in Animal Sciences

Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29631

ABSTRACT

Although many graduate students in animal industry programs at Clemson University expect to obtain employment which involves at least partial teaching responsibilities, most of these graduate students generally have few opportunities to gain meaningful teaching experience. Most of these future teachers have had no formal courses in education. The addition of several education courses to a student's plan of study seems to place unreasonable demands upon the student. Thus, after years of playing the student role (public school, baccalaureate, and graduate) the individual is expected to switch roles automatically with acquisition of a PhD degree. In reality, students do not become effective teachers automatically upon graduation. Since this situation was considered critical by several graduate students and faculty, a course with many different instructional methods, techniques, and approaches for effective teaching-learning situations was designed to provide training and experience in teaching for graduate students.

¹ Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Georgia College, Milledgeville 31061.

² Department of Dairy Science.

³ Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.