Aim 1 Title:
Develop and conduct science teachers' workshops that enable the teachers to use food safety experiments in the classroom and advise students on careers in food safety
Aim 1 Project Team:
Aim 1 team leader:
Salam A. Ibrahim, North Carolina A&T State University; contact ibrah001@ncat.edu
Aim 1 team members:
Martha Verghese, Alabama A&M University; contact martha.verghese@aamu.edu
Angela J. Roberts, Texas Wesleyan University; contact anroberts@txwes.edu
Alicia Orta Ramirez, Cornell University; contact ao98@cornell.edu
Rachel Pfuntner, Cornell University; contact rcp26@cornell.edu
Aim 1 Current Efforts:
During the NCA&TSU Food and Nutritional Sciences summer conference (described below under "Aim 1 Completed Efforts"), Salam Ibrahim identified 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. Judy Simon will help to market and advertise the trainings over the Foods II Food Technology Moodle and the FACS e-group. There will be 4 trainings in Fall 2011 and 4 trainings in Spring 2012.
Salam will, with the feedback from teachers, 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. |
Aim 1 Completed Efforts:
Cornell University held their first high school teachers' workshop on October 22, 2011. We have also submitted an abstract, entitled "Introducing Food Safety Investigation in the Science Classroom|download/attachments/146904242/STANYS+Abstract+2011.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1305207910000\" to the 2011 Science Teachers Association of New York State (STANYS) conference. The Food and Nutritional Sciences Program at NCA&TSU held a one day six hour introductory food science/food safety hands-on preconference on Monday, July 25, 2011 from 9:00am-3:00 pm as part of the North Carolina Family and Consumer Sciences Education Summer Conference. 11 local high school teachers attended this conference in which the following presentations were given: Introduction to Food Science and Technology, Introduction to Food Microbiology and Food Safety, Food Contamination, Chemical Contaminants in Food, Food Quality Control-HACCP, Food Labeling: An Important Challenge in Food Safety. The presentations can be viewed here. For more information, contact Judith C. Simon, Family and Consumer Sciences Education, Department of Public Instruction. 919.414.1949 (cell) |
Texas Wesleyan University hosted a one-day "Teaching Food Safety Workshop" for High School Science Teachers on August 3rd, 2011 from 9:00 am - 4:00 pm. The workshop was led by Dr. Angela J. Roberts from the Department of Biology. Nine teachers attended the workshop and participated in hands-on activities and discussions focusing on i) the GAPS Food Safety Investigation Curriculum, ii) the Pathogen Tracker Game, and iii) careers in food safety. More information can be found at http://www.txwes.edu/biology/TeachingFoodSafetyWorkshop.htm or by calling Dr. Roberts at (817) 531-6559. |
Martha - please add currnet efforts at Alabma A&M