 | Data Exchange - Be sure to complete your NAEAA Database Exchange Form! | |
| (see Member Resources Page to download form) | ||
| NAEAA Meetings and Conferences - NAEAA meetings in 'even' years are | |
| hosted by a member institution; 'odd year' meetings are held in conjunction with the Equine Science Society (ESS) | ||
| Working Groups for collaborative research are now active! Contact us if you | |
| are interested in joining one or more of these Pilot Project working groups: Indicators of Excellence; Incoming New Student Assessment; Exiting Student Assessment; Alumni Assessment. | ||
| NAEAA 2012 - June 24-26th Bozeman Montana (see below for early details!). | |
| Call for abstracts for oral and poster presentations - coming soon!!! | ||
| NAEAA 2013 - Las Cruces New Mexico - end of May/begining of June | |
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NAEAA 2012 – Excellence through Collaboration
June 24th (Sunday afternoon) through June 26th (Tuesday afternoon)
Bozeman Montana, Big Sky Resort
With optional Pre and Post conference workshops
NAEAA is a collaborative organization representing national and international offerings in
two and four year colleges and universities as well as educational institutions and groups
offering certificate and/or licensure programs ranging from farm management to therapeutic
use of the horse. Offerings may be full time, part time, traditional classroom and/or web
based involving any or all of the following: riding/training, science, management, industry
relations/communications and outreach. NAEAA is a place for the sharing of best practices
as well as forward thinking presentations and dialogue balancing the needs and desires of
new faculty as well as more established faculty and/or administrators. If you are involved
with teaching/learning about horses and the horse industry – this is a place for you!
NAEAA 2012 Conference Sessions:
1. Understanding our student population: Where did they come from and where do they
think they are going? Presentation and discussion/workshop on results of the NAEAA pilot
project: Incoming and exiting student interests/expectations/skills/goals in equine affiliated
academic programs. This session will include activities and discussion on how the pilot project
data can be useful in teaching/learning/academic planning as well as admission/recruitment
approaches and strategies.
2. Preparing our students for life beyond college –Expectations and opportunities for
careers as well as further education. A conversation with industry professionals about what
recruiters/employers expect from our students during recruitment and then after hiring and/or
during job training. Interactive workshop sessions will follow on current approaches to meeting
these expectations along with new ideas on approaches that could be taken to better prepare
students for job seeking/hiring expectations including post-undergraduate educational
opportunities (i.e. transfer institutions, graduate school, veterinary school, etc).
3. Understanding and Advancing Excellence in Equine Undergraduate Education:
Presentations and discussion/workshop on Indicators of Excellence (IOE) Pilot Project. Brief
case-study presentations by pilot project participants coupled with an overview presentation on
IOE. Breakout discussion/workshop to follow with activities around further refinement of Indicators
of Excellence and further application of IOE throughout the discipline.
4. Moving beyond personal experience and perception: Using current research and fact
based literature to address topics from horse training to horse welfare – topics that are often
addressed from personal experience and/or opinion. As instructors in equine affiliated
academics we have a responsibility to help students seek out evidence based research and fact
based literature that presents sound approaches to the care and management of horses. This is
just as true in the riding ring and in the field as it is in the more formal classroom setting. This
session will focus on successful ways of finding and incorporating evidence based approaches to
materials/concepts that are often addressed from emotional, rather than fact based perspectives.
Presentations will be followed by breakout group discussions that build on the presentations and
garner more ideas for evidence based learning approaches regardless of the topic and teaching
environment (i.e., in the ring, in the classroom, in the field).
5. NAEAA 2012 Poster Session: Innovative approaches to equine affiliated education:
teaching, learning, and assessment in the class, in the ring, in the field.
- Poster Track A - Research/outcome based projects/studies (Goals/objectives, activities,
results/analysis, conclusion ) - Poster Track B – Informational (who we are, what we do, how it is unique/different, how
we know it is effective, how information can be incorporated into the teaching/learning
environment).
AND....
Optional preconference workshop: Building credibility/legitimacy in your undergraduate
equine offerings.
Optional Post conference workshop: Discussion, evaluation and development of NAEAA
collaborative materials that could be used to develop some common approaches to teaching
about equine welfare and assessing pre/post perceptions and knowledge of equine welfare.
