#NACTA24 Poster & Oral Abstracts Due February 1, 2024

North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA) is pleased to announce the call for abstracts for poster and oral presentations for the NACTA Conference to be held in Wooster, Ohio from June 24-28, 2024. The NACTA conference provides opportunities to connect with and learn from others who share the same passion for the improvement of teaching and learning in agriculture, food and natural resources. The annual NACTA conference will provide you with new teaching techniques, ideas and resources. It is also one of the best professional development activities for networking with other teaching professionals where the common discipline is “teaching.”

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When you submit your abstract please specify an abstract type in one of these topic areas:

• Community-Based Learning/Extension
• Curriculum Development/Design
• Discipline-Specific Teaching/Classroom
• Faculty Support/Development/Mentoring
• Global Education
• Inclusive Pedagogy/Andragogy
• Student Support/Development/Advising
• Technology in the Classroom

Guidelines and Format for NACTA Abstracts
The 300-word abstract should be a concise summary of factual information and not simply a general description of what the author plans to present. A high-quality abstract contains the following key elements (without designating them as such):

1. a brief introduction, including objectives of the presentation.
2. relevant experimental conditions indicating the scope of study or survey (authors of predominately philosophical works may substitute other appropriate criteria).
3. observations, results, or data (however, data should be in summary form and not presented in tables or graphs) – philosophical abstracts must demonstrate application of said philosophy.
4. a concise summary.

Please note if you use Microsoft Word to write your abstract: Microsoft formatting sometimes adds hidden characters that will throw off the word count. We have found that if you paste your work into Notepad, then copy from there to the abstract form, it will clean up the formatting and the word count will be accurate. Please DO NOT include your title/author information within the abstract body.

Although you may submit as many abstracts as you wish, it is unlikely that more than one oral presentation or poster per presenter can be accepted due to scheduling complexities. We are unable to take requests for specific presentation days/times.

All abstracts will be peer-reviewed and considered for poster presentation. Based on reviews, the Review Committee will invite a select number of authors to present their work as an oral presentation instead of a poster. These authors will be notified personally at acceptance.

Questions? Contact NACTA at support@nactateachers.org

Deadline: February 1, 2024

All abstracts are reviewed by the NACTA Journal Editorial Board and the Editor. The author submitting the abstract will be notified of its status in April 2024. Feedback on rejected abstracts will be available on request only If accepted, the presenter must be registered for the conference by the Early Bird Deadline of April 15, 2024. Failure to do so will result in your presentation being pulled from the conference program. 

Abstracts Due Feb 1, 2024