Owl Pellets: Tips For Ag Teachers

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Sinopse

Practical tips for your ag classroom and interesting information to incorporate in your teaching. Qquick and easy resources for you to read, or pellets of information.

Episódios

  • Professional Development for Inclusion, Diversity, & Equity

    26/03/2024 Duração: 20min

    With a decline in the teaching workforce and a decline in teacher diversity, Matt Wood and Michelle Burrows at Utah State University wanted to know: what's the effect on ag programs? In exploring attitudes and professional development around Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity (IDE), they found teachers were looking for PD to help them tap into students' lived experiences, curricular resources around IDE, and support advocating for minorities.

  • Recruitment Strategies

    19/03/2024 Duração: 18min

    What are we recruiting to? Tiffany Marzalino and Aaron McKim at Michigan State University share how Michigan ag teachers are recruiting students to their programs--and it might be more straightforward than you think! Tune in as we talk about authenticity, inclusivity and belonging, empowering students to share their experiences, and the different learning experiences Ag Ed is situated to provide!   Journal Article: https://jae-online.org/index.php/jae/article/view/49

  • Assessing & Evaluating Mentoring (7. Mentoring Mini-Series)

    12/03/2024 Duração: 22min

    How can we evaluate mentoring? Do you know what purpose you are serving as a mentor or mentee? In this week's episode Brian, Becky, and Mike discuss how to assess and evaluate mentoring. Tune in as the crew continues their mentoring mini-series. 

  • Integrating School Gardens

    05/03/2024 Duração: 26min

    Establishing integrated school gardens takes a champion to start, but a team to maintain. Jade Davidson (Oregon State University) and Jason Peake (University of Georgia) share a framework and the components necessary to integrate sustainable and integrated school gardens that are part of the school culture.   Journal Article: https://agdevresearch.org/index.php/aad/article/view/281 Resources: https://bit.ly/3t8OxFI

  • Integrating GPS & Geocaching

    27/02/2024 Duração: 26min

    Geocaching is a treasure hunting community teachers can leverage as an instructional tool. Rachel Hendrix (West Virginia University) and John Rickets (Tennessee State University) join the crew to help us learn how to use geocaching to promote critical thinking, teamwork, and communication and to use geocaching as an instructional tool.   Journal article: http://jsaer.org/2022/10/12/gps-and-geocaching-integration-in-agriscience-the-impact-on-critical-thinking/

  • The One-Way Mirror: How Young Ag Leaders Understand and Experience Culture

    20/02/2024 Duração: 18min

    Understanding and experiencing culture is critical for young agricultural leaders, but there's often some anxiety around having culturally competent conversations. Never fear--Janiece Pigg (Tennessee Youth Development) is here to help us think about opportunities to expand our cultural lens.   Journal article: https://jae-online.org/index.php/jae/article/view/1952

  • Mentoring Behaviors (6. Mentoring Mini-Series)

    13/02/2024 Duração: 28min

    Prepare to enter mentoring! Mentoring is a huge undertaking, and in this episode, Brian, Mike, and Becky explore what we need to enter mentoring and point to tools to support that process in formal mentoring relationships.

  • SBAE Teacher Performance and Program Quality

    06/02/2024 Duração: 24min

    There are hundreds of ways to measure success in SBAE programs, and Haley Traini (Oregon State University) joins us to talk about them all! We'll chat about teacher and program performance, overwhelm, and career expectations in the jam packed episode!   Journal article: https://jae-online.org/index.php/jae/article/view/29

  • Working with SPED in Ag Ed

    30/01/2024 Duração: 18min

    We all have students with special needs in our classes. Unfortunately, many of us also need additional training to support our SPED students. Tune in as the OP team chats with Raegan Ramage (Louisiana) as she shares tips for opening communication with SPED teachers, working with students, and involving SPED students in Agricultural Education.    Journal Article: https://jae-online.org/index.php/jae/article/view/29

  • Perceived Use of Instructional Methods

    23/01/2024 Duração: 26min

    We rely on a toolbox of instructional methods as agricultural educators. Blake Colclasure (University of Tennessee) and Jack Dempsey (University of Illinois & Cascade Reading) share how our belief in a method's effectiveness affects our use of that method. Spoiler alert: you've got to believe!   Journal Article:  https://agdevresearch.org/index.php/aad/article/view/235

  • Curricular Resource Use and Pedagogical Design Capacity

    16/01/2024 Duração: 26min

    Growing as an effective educator is a skill to practice, especially as we work to engage students. Tune in as we talk with Tre Easterly (University of Florida) about how to improve our teaching by improving instructional clarity, increasing variety, demonstrating enthusiasm, using task-oriented behaviors, and providing opportunities for students to practice what they learn.   Journal Article:  https://jae-online.org/index.php/jae/article/view/1959

  • Identities in Mentoring (5. Mentoring Mini-Series)

    09/01/2024 Duração: 22min

    Identity is the composite of who a person is, including their thoughts about themselves, how they're viewed by the world, and the characteristics individuals use to define themselves. Join the OP crew for the next installation of the mentoring mini-series as they talk about supporting people in finding their fit and acknowledging contributions.

  • What’s the Difference? (4. Mentoring Mini-Series)

    12/12/2023 Duração: 25min

    Mentoring, coaching, advising, role modeling, sponsorship--what's the big deal? Aren't they all kind of the same thing? Join the Owl Pellets team as we work through the difference, and value, of each different type of relationship in our personal and professional lives.

  • Youth Livestock Production: More than meets the eye

    05/12/2023 Duração: 25min

    Being involved in agriculture connects kids to their communities. Rebecca Mott and John Tummons (University of Missouri) share how we can use youth livestock experiences to encourage deep reflection and growth toward independence.   Resources: https://bit.ly/41h9lYl

  • Adapting FFA Programs for Your Community

    28/11/2023 Duração: 27min

    FFA is steeped in tradition. Join the conversation with Mike Martin (Iowa State University) to think about how we engage our chapters and communities over competition as we enact meaningful FFA programs. Mike shares how we can focus on the things that make sense to local members and adapt traditions to make them more meaningful.

  • Co-Pilot Relationships (3. Mentoring Mini-Series)

    14/11/2023 Duração: 28min

    A co-pilot mentoring relationship builds trust over time, allows both parties to guide the relationship, recognizes conditions will change, embraces communication as essential, and develops as a skill through guidance and commitment. The Owl Pellets team chats about what this means for us both as mentors and mentees.

  • Characteristics of Effective Instruction

    07/11/2023 Duração: 26min

    Growing as an effective educator is a skill to practice, especially as we work to engage students. Tune in as we talk with Tre Easterly (University of Florida) about how to grow in our instructional clarity, variety, enthusiasm, task-oriented behaviors, and student opportunity.

  • Importance of Ag Literacy

    31/10/2023 Duração: 25min

    Ag literacy is an important piece of helping individuals apply what they know about agriculture. Amelia Miller (Michigan Ag In the Classroom) and Brian Warnick (Utah State University) join the Owl Pellets crew to talk about the ways school-based ag ed can engage with younger grade levels, helping students who come into programs with little or no agricultural background, and supporting critical thinking through Ag Literacy. Resources:  https://agclassroom.org/affiliates/programs/ https://agclassroom.org/matrix/ https://www.agliteracy.org/research/assessment/

  • Let’s Talk Boundaries

    24/10/2023 Duração: 22min

    The encouragement to set boundaries is becoming the norm in agricultural education, but that doesn't mean the boundaries come easily. Mike and Brian get the chance to grill Becky and her teammates Haley Traini (Oregon State University) and Aaron McKim (Michigan State University) as they discuss what boundary challenges for teachers might mean for the Ag Ed profession.

  • Preparing Agricultural Leaders with Employability Skills

    17/10/2023 Duração: 25min

    Students who know their career path believe their employability skills are better developed, but what about those who aren't so sure? Jean Parrella (Virginia Tech) joins Becky and Mike to talk about cultivating employability skills in our programs through community participation and cross-disciplinary experiences. 

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