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Evaluation Of Teaching And Advising Essay

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Statement on Approach to Teaching and Advising Much has evolved since my initial years at South Dakota State University when I had no teaching appointment. During those initial years I took advantage of any available opportunity to increase my college level teaching experience mostly in the form of guest lectures in ABS 704 and other courses where I lectured on Plant Functional Genomics and Abiotic Stresses. Based on this experience, I developed Independent Study opportunities for interested students in wheat molecular breeding and in plant genomics. Interest in this area was strong enough that I expanded it into a regular course and offered it as a special topic (“Introduction to Plant Genomics”) starting in the fall of 2009. Those early years afforded me time and opportunities to informally interact with diverse faculty to keep maturing my teaching philosophy and approaches. Although most of my teaching in the last years is at the graduate level, I have a special consideration for ABS482-582, an international experience to discover the agricultural industry in Argentina. In 2007, I was part of the team that developed this course. Unfortunately, due to an important health problem in my family I was not able to attend the first trip. Later on, in 2011, due to unexpected faculty turnover, I was able to co-lead the course. During the fall semester the students attended introductory lectures in Argentinian agriculture, economics, politics, culture and basic Spanish skills.

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