Abstract:
During the past two decades, we've seen renewed interest on the part of professional associations and societies in improving teaching in colleges of agriculture. While NACTA has certainly taken the lead, other associations have at least given token attention to the matter. In all the concern, however, too little emphasis has been given to the role of teachers in developing a learning atmosphere for the time actually spent in the classroom. Too often, the classroom has been used as merely a transfer point for information that, hopefully, the student can use later. Yet the time spent in the classroom probably represents the greatest block of time that a student will devote to a course.
Keywords:
classroom environment, learning atmosphere