Using Hunger to Enhance Teaching And Learning Across Disciplines
Abstract
Accompanying the opportunity to teach students is the responsibility to address relevant topics in a socially conscious and globally engaged manner. As a college instructor, I have focused on transforming existing courses and creating new ones to address poverty and hunger from an interdisciplinary perspective. The objectives of the session are to do the following: 1) Detail the curriculum (structure, content, materials, teaching and learning methods, student projects, evaluation) of one upper-level undergraduate course, Reflections on Fighting Hunger; 2) Share examples of student projects from this class; 3) Present on-going research to assess strategies used in the course to nurture communication and interpersonal skills, and foster student creativity and thought beyond a single discipline; and 4) Discuss implications of the research and how the new knowledge can transfer and be used to benefit other faculty, courses, situations, and students.
Location
Room 1908
Recommended Citation
Navarro, Maria, "Using Hunger to Enhance Teaching And Learning Across Disciplines " (2011). SoTL Commons Conference. 16.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/sotlcommons/SoTL/2011/16
Using Hunger to Enhance Teaching And Learning Across Disciplines
Room 1908
Accompanying the opportunity to teach students is the responsibility to address relevant topics in a socially conscious and globally engaged manner. As a college instructor, I have focused on transforming existing courses and creating new ones to address poverty and hunger from an interdisciplinary perspective. The objectives of the session are to do the following: 1) Detail the curriculum (structure, content, materials, teaching and learning methods, student projects, evaluation) of one upper-level undergraduate course, Reflections on Fighting Hunger; 2) Share examples of student projects from this class; 3) Present on-going research to assess strategies used in the course to nurture communication and interpersonal skills, and foster student creativity and thought beyond a single discipline; and 4) Discuss implications of the research and how the new knowledge can transfer and be used to benefit other faculty, courses, situations, and students.
