Experience

• 2009 - Present
  Assistant Professor - Agricultural and Extension Education
• 2006 - 2009
  Graduate Teaching and Research Assistant - Department of Human and Community Resource Development, The Ohio State University
• 2002 - 2006
  Agricultural Education Instructor, The University of Arizona

Education

• Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 2009
• M.S., The Ohio State University, 2009
• B.S., The University of Arizona, 2002

Courses Taught

• AEE 350, Teaching Methods for Agricultural and Environmental Laboratories
• AEE 412, Methods of Teaching Agriculture and Environmental Science
• AEE 495, Student Teaching in Agriculture

Office

211 Ferguson Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-863-0192
Fax: 814-863-4753
E- mail: ddf12@psu.edu

Responsibilities

• 75% Teaching
• 25% Research

Research Interests

• Secondary and Postsecondary Agriculture Education
• Teaching and Learning
• Experiential Learning

• Foster, D. D. & Whittington, M.S. (in press). Developing an Instrument to Measure Principles of Teaching and Learning in College Class Sessions. Journal of Agricultural Education.

• Foster, D. D. & Whittington, M.S., & Bookman, J. (2009). Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development: Have College Students Reached Formal Operations? Proceedings of the North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture Conference, Stillwater, OK.

• Foster, D. D., & Epps. R. B. (2008). Revisiting the Senior Capstone Experience: Developing Cooperative Professionals. Poster Proceedings of the Annual North Central American Association of Agricultural Educators Research Conference, Ithaca, NY, 62-65.

• Foster, D. D., Connors, J. J., Cano, J. M., & Whittington, M. S. (2008). An Undergraduate Peer Teaching Approach to Portfolio Development Across the Curriculum. Poster Proceedings of the Annual North Central American Association of Agricultural Educators Research Conference, Ithaca, NY, 50-53.