InnovATE faculty member Tom Hammett from Virginia Tech worked in partnership with team members from Winrock Farmer-to-Farmer program and idE in Nepal and faculty at the Agriculture and Forestry University to improve teaching effectiveness in agriculture and natural resource education, and explore strategies for improving the capacity for sustainable workforce development in Nepal. In April of 2015 InnovATE hosted a workshop in Hetuda, Nepal to focus on:
- Teaching Pedagogies
- Project Centered Learning
- Teaching & Learning Centers
- Education for Agricultural Commercialization
Presentations
Day 1
Linking Transformative Teaching with Sustainable Workforce Development
Commonly Used Methods of Teaching in Nepal
Day 2
Team Based, Project-Centered Learning Workshop
What do Teachers Expect of Their Students? And the Students of Their Teachers?
Day 3
Development of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Principia College
MemCoE Center for Teaching Excellence
Examining Teaching and Learning Centers: CIDER at Virginia Tech
Day 4
Education for Agricultural Commercialization iDE Nepal Experience, Needs and Observations
Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire