Resume

• 2007

  Purdue University

  West Lafayette

  IN

  Dr. Neil Knobloch chair of the PK-12 Council for the College of Agriculture and the Life Science Education Signature Area (LSESA) in the Department of Youth Development and Agricultural Education at Purdue University. He develops teachers

  graduate students

  and professors transition their teaching strategies to be more engaging for their students. Using the learner-centered teaching model

  he studies student learning and motivation. He has conducted curriculum and faculty development projects to enhance human capacity at Land-grant Universities (LGUs) and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). He is passionate about helping faculty and students develop more engaging educational experiences that will enhance the STEM education and career pipeline.

  Associate Professor

  Purdue University

  Wellman

  Iowa

  I taught over 500 junior and high school students about agricultural and environmental sciences.

  AgriScience Teacher

  Mid-Prairie Community Schools

• 2002

  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Create innovative educational products for training and development in entrepreneurship

  business management

  and accounting

  Actimax Learning

  Inc.

  Associate Professor

  Researcher; lead an interdisciplinary team of life science education researchers to study the impact of experiential and outreach education on science literacy and career development in the sciences

  Purdue University

  Purdue University

  West Lafayette

  Indiana USA

  I lead a team of educational researchers to study the effectiveness and impact of learner-centered teaching strategies on student motivation through university teaching and PK-12 outreach. I teach graduate courses on educational innovations and designing educational research studies to advance the missions of discovery

  learning

  engagement and diversity in agricultural STEM majors through partnerships with 1862 Land-Grant Universities and 1890 Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

  Professor

  West Lafayette

  IN

  Professor

  Purdue University

  Served as a teacher educator and prepared teachers for high school classrooms

  trainers for businesses

  and educators for 4-H youth development and non-for-profit organizations; principal investigator of the Learner-Centered Teaching Project

  and conducted faculty development workshops on how to design

  implement and evaluate active learning

  inquiry learning

  and contextualized learning approaches

  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  American Education Research Association

  Co-Chair

  New Faculty Mentoring Program of Learning and Cognition

• 1999

  Ph.D.

  Top Graduate Student Award for Academic Achievement\nOutstanding Dissertation Award

  Human and Community Resource Development

  Phi Kappa Phi\nOmicron Theta Tau

  Dimensions of Success Rubric Assessment Certification

  Program in Education

  Afterschool & Resiliency

  Harvard Medical School

  Managing High Potentials

  Lynda.com

• 1992

  Master of Science (MS)

  Agricultural Education

  Iowa State University

• 1988

  Bachelor's degree

  Agricultural & Extension Education

  Iowa State University

• Chair of the Promotions and Marketing Committee

  American Berkshire Association

  University Teaching

  Curriculum Design

  Grant Writing

  Qualitative Research

  Teaching

  Workshop Presentation

  Curriculum Development

  Classroom

  Public Speaking

  Courses

  Research

  Higher Education

  Adult Education

  Program Evaluation

  Student Development

  Instructional Design

  College Teaching

  Student Affairs

  Program Development

  Science

  Becoming a scholar as a teacher educator

  This is a book chapter in an edited book that documents experiences and strategies for beginning scholars in education and communication fields to chart a course to develop scholarship.

  Becoming a scholar as a teacher educator

  Learner-Centered Teaching is a developmental teaching approach to helping professors and teachers engage their students using active learning

  inquiry learning and contextualized learning approaches and strategies.

  Knobloch

  Neil

  Knobloch

  Mid-Prairie Community Schools

  Actimax Learning

  Inc.