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The ASAS Educator’s Toolbox is a place for scholarly contributions about teaching and extension as they pertain to the Animal Sciences. Scholarship for this site will be defined as any contribution which fits into one or more of Boyer’s domains (Engagement, Discovery, Integration, Application, Teaching) (Boyer, 1990; Boyer, 1996; Weiser, 1996). At first glance, it might seem that Teaching is the only domain that applies. However, each of the Land-Grant missions (Teaching, Research and Extension) requires activity in each of the scholarly domains in order to fully express the mission. There will be a process of peer review to ensure high quality and that contributions contain ideas, activities and tools which are new or represent fresh perspectives. It is also important that all items included here can be fully shared with other professionals.

Scholarly contributions about teaching or extension may be or a general nature or may be from any of the discipline or species interests that are included in the Journal of Animal Science or the national or sectional meetings of the American Society of Animal Science.

Literature cited
Boyer, E.L. 1990 Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

Boyer, E.L. 1996. The Scholarship of Engagement. Journal of Public Service and Outreach 1:11-20.

Weiser, C.J. 1996. The Value System of a University – Rethinking Scholarship. College of Agricultural Sciences - Oregon State University.

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Articles. Scholarly articles will be considered which describe methods or philosophy about teaching or extension. Methods may include new or refined techniques or descriptions of new courses, events or experiences. Philosophy may include ideas about teaching and learning styles, curriculum or reflections of an individual’s experiences in teaching or extension. Articles do not need to include a statistical assessment of the ideas being described although articles describing designed studies with proper statistical controls will certainly be welcomed. In keeping with the ideas of scholarship, it will be important for all articles to demonstrate proper integration of pre-existing knowledge with the new information being presented. Such demonstration can be accomplished by proper citation from existing literature.

Education Tools. Scholarly teaching or extension tools will also be considered for inclusion. Tools may include such things as powerpoint presentations, course notes, images, field days, videos, spreadsheets, workshops, short courses, demonstrations or other teaching or extension tools. Each tool should be accompanied by a description of the tool, intended audiences, resources required for implementation and background material necessary for understanding how the tool is used and what it means. As a scholarly contribution, the background material should always include proper citation of knowledge that was used in development of the tool.

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