2018 Class Project Presentations: Sustainable Livestock Management for Poverty Alleviation and Food Security (To be Updated)
Description | Major Steps | Presentation Schedule | Expectations | Grades
Description:
The purpose of this class project is to provide each student in the class with an opportunity to present to the class the highlights of a section of the book titled: Sustainable Livestock Management for Poverty Alleviation Food Security. Improving animal health and husbandry by rural and urban smallholder livestock keepers is not easily accomplished. As indicated in the introduction, this book is meant to be a training manual for livestock development practitioners working with limited resources. We hope that our collective effort in reading, summarizing and share with one another the content of this book will complement well the more "academic" discussions from the pre-class readings assignment. Hopefully, we will be able to make many connections between the two! Working in Teams will help us go through the book efficiently.
Your job is to create a mini lesson plan that to engage the class with the content of your assigned reading material and then implement the lesson in no more than 10 minutes. On the day of you schedule you will be implementing your 10 minutes of pre-panned lesson. Then, we will spend a maximum of 5 minutes for "discussion" "debriefing" or "Q&A" "clarifications" before moving on to other class activities for the rest of the period.
Major Steps:
The main steps of this project are described here:
- Team formation: Students will be assigned partners and a book section no later than the 3rd week of class.
- Project planning: As soon as you know your teammates, please visit with one another to discuss your plan of action:
- Read the book chapter and summarize the main points (as a group or individually?);
- Decide how you will engage the rest of the class to gain a good understanding of the material. You don't have to do a power point presentation. As an alternative you may choose to lead a class discussion, design a skit, design an "educational game"; Be original educational and entertaining!
- Get approval of your plan. Share your plan with your instructor who will provide feedback on will discuss options; This can be done after class the week before your presentation;
- Complete the following Team Project Planning and Evaluation Form to help organize your team and its effort. Once you have a general idea, discuss the details of the design and implementation of your mini lesson plan. Who will do what to prepare? who will do what during the lesson? etc.
- Practice: Find a place and a time to practice your mini lesson as a team;
- Implement your mini lesson as indicated on the schedule below, using the first 15 min of class.
Please see the Table below for team members, book section assignment and dates of presentation.
| Week | Date | Team Members | Reading (Chapter or section) | Start Page |
End Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 01/24 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 2 | 01/31 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 3 | 02/07 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 4 | 02/14 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 5 | 02/21 | -- | Ch. 1 Trends in Livestock Sector & Ch. 2 Livestock Development Approaches |
1 7 |
6 22 |
| 6 | 02/28 | -- | Ch. 3 Method. Organiz., and Network of Endo. Liv. Dev. Ch. 4 Differentiating four Livestock Production Systems |
23 36 |
35 42 |
| 7 | 03/07 | -- | Ch. 5 Livestock-Kepping Systems and Poverty Ch. 6 Smallholder Low-input and Diversified Systems |
43 53 |
52 59 |
| 8 | 03/14 | -- | Ch. 7 Smallholder More Specialized Systems Ch. 8 Changing Smallholder Toward Specialization |
60 66 |
65 75 |
| 9 | 03/21 | -- | Ch. 9 Optimizing Smallholder Low-Input Systems |
76 | 100 |
| -- | 03/28 | Spring Break | -- | -- | -- |
| 10 | 04/04 | -- | Ch. 10 Optimizing Smallholder More Specialized Systems |
101 | 129 |
| 11 | 04/11 | -- | Ch. 11 Finding Pathways to Markets Case study 1 |
130 143 |
142 146 |
| 12 | 04/18 | -- | -- |
-- | -- |
| 13 | 04/25 | -- | Case study 2, 3, 4, and 5 |
147 |
165 |
| 14 | 05/02 | -- | Case study 6 |
166 |
179 |
| 15 | 05/02 | -- |
-- | -- |