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Career and Technical Education (CTE) Summer Conference for Family and Consumer Sciences Education will be conducted on July 24, 2013 at Koury Convention Center in Greensboro, NC. This workshop will be focused on helping teachers understand basic knowledge in the area of food science including food safety/ practices, basic issues related to food microbiology and basic understanding of food protection and defense. North Carolina A &T State University food microbiology and safety laboratory will deliver a lecture on various topics. The graduate students in the food and nutritional science will present this lecture; the audiences for this workshop will be high school teachers of family and consumer sciences. Presenters: 1. Drs.Valerie L. Giddings and Rosa Purcell-Introduction During the NCA&TSU Food and Nutritional Sciences summer conference (described below under "Aim 1 Completed Efforts"), Salam Ibrahim will identify one school per district to host the one day Food Technology/Food Safety training to raise the awareness of the need for better staff development in these areas based on feedback from teachers. Salam will schedule these trainings with these sites/teachers. Takeda LeGrand from North Carolina Department of Education will help to market and advertise the trainings. This would be related to the new Food Technology course and the FACS e-group. There will be two trainings every Fall and every Spring semester (2012-2016). Salam Ibrahim, with the feedback from teachers, will plan and deliver a five day workshop (DATE TBD) on food science/food technology/food safety which will substitute for the three hour licensure requirement. This activity will be conducted during 2012-2013 academic year. Salam A. Ibrahim at North Carolina A&T Sate University was part of a collaborative effort to develop a food technology class that is currently being taught by high school teachers. Materials from this course are used to train high school teachers who will be implementing the course. Additionally, members of the NCA&T food microbiology and safety laboratory utilize materials from this course for student workshops. |
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Graduate students and professors from Cornell's Food Safety Laboratory facilitated a food safety workshop through the Cornell Institute for Biology Teachers (CIBT) summer program for middle school teachers July 10th and 11th, 2013. Twenty middle school teachers throughout New York participated in the workshop which sought to inform teachers about how to implement scientific exercises in their classrooms. Teachers were given a brief introduction to food safety by Dr. Martin Wiedmann before being presented with a mock outbreak scenario. After analyzing data obtained from patient interviews and calculating risk ratios, a differential diagnosis was used to guide environmental and food sampling to further investigate the food item responsible for the outbreak. A DNA extraction activity illustrated how molecular techniques are used in outbreak investigation to confirm the causative agent. At the conclusion of the workshop, teachers were provided resources and guidance for incorporating the various activities in their curricula. |
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Career and Technical Education (CTE) Summer Conference for Family and Consumer Sciences Education will be conducted on July 24, 2013 at Koury Convention Center in Greensboro, NC. This workshop will be focused on helping teachers understand basic knowledge in the area of food science including food safety/ practices, basic issues related to food microbiology and basic understanding of food protection and defense. North Carolina A &T State University food microbiology and safety laboratory will deliver a lecture on various topics. The graduate students in the food and nutritional science will present this lecture; the audiences for this workshop will be high school teachers of family and consumer sciences. Presenters: 1. Drs.Valerie L. Giddings and Rosa Purcell-Introduction |
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Dr. Martha Verghese, Dr. Jennifer Patterson, and graduate students from Alabama A&M University presented food science/food safety interactive workshops to high school students at four different area high schools during spring 2013. |
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