Editorial

Revamping Teaching and Learning Programmingand Honoring Owen Fennema

At this year’s IFT Annual Meeting in Chicago on July 14, thefirst Fennema Lectureship and Workshop will occur as a part ofrevamped and reinvigorated programming oriented toward edu-cational improvement. Dr. Clyde “Kipp” Herreid, DistinguishedTeaching Professor and Academic Director of the University Hon-ors Program at the State Univ. of New York Buffalo, and the Di-rector of the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science,will be the inaugural speaker and workshop leader for the OwenFennema Lectureship and Workshop. Dr. Herreid is a nationallyrecognized leader in case study teaching and has published exten-sively on the topic. The lecture will address the fundamentals andstrengths of using case studies in science teaching, the constructionof case study activities as well as comparing and contrasting thedifferent delivery formats for case studies, problem based learning,and other student centered active learning teaching methodolo-gies. The workshop later in the day will continue the theme,focusing on the construction of a lecture course case study activityand participation in a case study activity and a debrief to learn thestudent’s view.

In this issue, Jim Bird has again provided us with a list of publica-tions that we will find of great interest. Coorey and Firth’s article,“Integrated Contextual Learning and Food Science Students’ Per-ception of Work Readiness” describes efforts to integrate activities

that provide for “workplace readiness” into the curriculum. Thisshould be of carefully read by any program that is struggling toprovide intern placements for their students. Also in this issueis “Development, Dissemination, and Preimplementation Evalu-ation of Food Safety Educational Materials for Secondary Educa-tion” by Shearer and others. This article provides materials andevaluation of implementing food safety and microbiology acrossthe secondary school education.

I look forward to seeing you at Fennema Lectureship andWorkshop as well as the JFSE session in the Education SPA inChicago.

Grady W. ChismScientific Editor

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