Graduate Research Assistant - Department of Food Science & Technology at The University of Georgia
Peter G. Chiarelli
Teaching Portfolio
for the class of
AGED7020E
Hello! Welcome to my teaching portfolio. As a current Ph.D. student in the Food Science & Technology Dept. at The University of Georgia, I decided to take AGED 7020E, methods of instruction, because I believe everyone with a Ph.D. should possess the knowledge and skills necessary to successfully teaching one day. Whether it be students or other professionals, if you cannot successfully plan, teach, and honestly evaluate yourself as a scientist and teacher then other will never learn and neither will your audience. The world is changing and adapting from only lectures will be crucial to helping students learn to the best of their ability.
Please continue below to see my created Unit Plan on Food Science 101 for high school students and a demonstration for turning jellyfish into gelatin then into a gummy candy! Thank you!
Overview of my Unit Plan &
Teaching Demonstration
Please feel free to check out my unit plan and teaching demonstration below!
Throughout my time as a food scientist, a common trend I have noticed is that most Americans, young and old, have never heard of a food scientist. This led to the formation of my goal to be carried out throughout my career, which is to travel to high schools and give talks to the students about Food Science 101. This is meant to have the students become aware of the field and maybe put a dream in their mind to become apart of the fun field that lets you play with food for a living! Please check out the pdf version of this unit plan and the demonstration that turns Georgia jellyfish into gummy candy's!
Overarching goal: To get high school students familiar with the field of food science because, typically, only people that have direct connections to food scientists know about the field. The goal is to get the students familiar, know what they do, and know that this has a very good career outlook and if they totally are not interested in this career/topic, hopefully they will at least be aware of it, respect the field, and have some takeaways from the networking segment on the last day.