Owl Pellets: Tips for Ag Teachers

Professional Development for Inclusion, Diversity, & Equity

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.

 

Journal Article: https://jae-online.org/index.php/jae/article/view/58

Recruitment Strategies

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)

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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