Monday, April 28, 2014
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Mid- Winter Convention Review
Attending Mid-Winter Convention in the shoes of a advisor rather than student was a different experience. Only having attended the convention once I did not recall some of the things that occurred. This was a really great experience to be refreshed and updated on new opportunities available for students.
I enjoyed listening to the state star announcements that described their SAE programs. I was surprised by some of them as I never thought to utilize things that I already had in a record book. This also provided good examples for some of the books that I am less familiar with. I am always to appreciative of the opportunities that students have for recognition. As an advisor I will encourage students to take advantage of the chapter jacket program as well as maintain superior books to be recognize as a region and state star.
As an FFA Advisor, if I brought students to attend the mid-winter convention I would definatly have things for them to do during the day before the convention starts. First off, Farm Show is an excellent opportunity to showcase Pennsylvania agriculture. Giving them a scavenger hunt is a good way for them to visit the entire complex and have enough to keep them busy.
I enjoyed listening to the state star announcements that described their SAE programs. I was surprised by some of them as I never thought to utilize things that I already had in a record book. This also provided good examples for some of the books that I am less familiar with. I am always to appreciative of the opportunities that students have for recognition. As an advisor I will encourage students to take advantage of the chapter jacket program as well as maintain superior books to be recognize as a region and state star.
 |
| CV FFA Jacket Recipients! |
As an FFA Advisor, if I brought students to attend the mid-winter convention I would definatly have things for them to do during the day before the convention starts. First off, Farm Show is an excellent opportunity to showcase Pennsylvania agriculture. Giving them a scavenger hunt is a good way for them to visit the entire complex and have enough to keep them busy.
 |
| CV FFA Members - front row received their Keystone Degrees! |
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Week 13
Good Afternoon,
Monday-
Leadership- Students worked on cutting out letters for A-Day Displays as well as work on other items for A-Day such as tweaking flyers and updating press releases. I have been making each day worth so many points because it has been hard to keep some students working. By doing this, I have found it to be fair to the students who are actually working.
Animal Science- Students are working on a research bases unit of instruction in CASE. They were looking up hormones. To help make the process make more sense I found it was best to create a timeline on the board. By having different students draw their hormone on the board I was able to maintain participation and check to make sure students are understanding the process.
Landscape- Students worked in the garden to transplant strawberries. I am struggling to keep all students working as well as having issues with students who do not want to participate due to the dirt. I stress that students may bring a change of shoes and clothes but it is still a challenge to keep them all working. I am debating developing a peer accountability system.
SAE- Students worked on researching information for the Maple Syrup Project.
Tuesday-
Leadership- In leadership students were working on displays, pairing food for spring trip and planted plugs in the greenhouse. The greenhouse has been a struggle to maintain al students working. I try to have them working on something different and then change gears to go the greenhouse however their work ethic is really poor.
Animal Science- In Animal Science I found a time table which pictures of the ovary to better discuss hormones. This process allowed students to review what they worked on yesterday as well as to visually see what was occurring. This type of review was very effective and I think brought a better sense of understanding to the material.
Landscape- Sub plans- left for Spring Trip.
Wednesday- Saturday- Spring Trip- I worked with Ms. Romberger over the past few weeks to plan out our Spring Trip to West Virginia. The Trip was a blast. It was very relaxing yet students had the opportunity to be as busy as they chose. We took all the students Zip Lining which was very challenging for some and many had to over come many fears. This was an excellent opportunity and a great activity for a group. This was very much a challenge for my group as we had a student who was paralyzed. She was a great sport and was amazing in what she was able to accomplish. I was so proud of how the students worked with each other to help pull her up the ladders an put on and off the line. The experience was very rewarding an exciting. I hope to be able to do something with my students.
Plan for Week 8
Monday- Leadership- Work Day- ADay Displays
Animal Science- 6.4.1
Landscape- What is soil?
SAE- Maple Syrup Proposal
Tuesday- Leadership- Job Profiling
Animal Science- 6.4.1
Landscape- What is Soil?
SAE- Press Release Review, Maple Syrup Proposal research
Wednesday- Sub- Spring Trip
Leadership- Displays
Animal Science- 6.4.2
Landscape- Landscape designs with Native Plants
SAE- A-Day
Thursday-
Leadership- Displays
Animal Science- 6.4.3
Landscape- Landscaping with Native Plants
SAE- Maple Syrup
Friday-
Leadership- A-Day
Animal Science- 6.5.1
Landscape- Mulching
SAE- Hunger Banquet
Monday-
Leadership- Students worked on cutting out letters for A-Day Displays as well as work on other items for A-Day such as tweaking flyers and updating press releases. I have been making each day worth so many points because it has been hard to keep some students working. By doing this, I have found it to be fair to the students who are actually working.
Animal Science- Students are working on a research bases unit of instruction in CASE. They were looking up hormones. To help make the process make more sense I found it was best to create a timeline on the board. By having different students draw their hormone on the board I was able to maintain participation and check to make sure students are understanding the process.
Landscape- Students worked in the garden to transplant strawberries. I am struggling to keep all students working as well as having issues with students who do not want to participate due to the dirt. I stress that students may bring a change of shoes and clothes but it is still a challenge to keep them all working. I am debating developing a peer accountability system.
SAE- Students worked on researching information for the Maple Syrup Project.
Tuesday-
Leadership- In leadership students were working on displays, pairing food for spring trip and planted plugs in the greenhouse. The greenhouse has been a struggle to maintain al students working. I try to have them working on something different and then change gears to go the greenhouse however their work ethic is really poor.
Animal Science- In Animal Science I found a time table which pictures of the ovary to better discuss hormones. This process allowed students to review what they worked on yesterday as well as to visually see what was occurring. This type of review was very effective and I think brought a better sense of understanding to the material.
Landscape- Sub plans- left for Spring Trip.
Wednesday- Saturday- Spring Trip- I worked with Ms. Romberger over the past few weeks to plan out our Spring Trip to West Virginia. The Trip was a blast. It was very relaxing yet students had the opportunity to be as busy as they chose. We took all the students Zip Lining which was very challenging for some and many had to over come many fears. This was an excellent opportunity and a great activity for a group. This was very much a challenge for my group as we had a student who was paralyzed. She was a great sport and was amazing in what she was able to accomplish. I was so proud of how the students worked with each other to help pull her up the ladders an put on and off the line. The experience was very rewarding an exciting. I hope to be able to do something with my students.
Plan for Week 8
Monday- Leadership- Work Day- ADay Displays
Animal Science- 6.4.1
Landscape- What is soil?
SAE- Maple Syrup Proposal
Tuesday- Leadership- Job Profiling
Animal Science- 6.4.1
Landscape- What is Soil?
SAE- Press Release Review, Maple Syrup Proposal research
Wednesday- Sub- Spring Trip
Leadership- Displays
Animal Science- 6.4.2
Landscape- Landscape designs with Native Plants
SAE- A-Day
Thursday-
Leadership- Displays
Animal Science- 6.4.3
Landscape- Landscaping with Native Plants
SAE- Maple Syrup
Friday-
Leadership- A-Day
Animal Science- 6.5.1
Landscape- Mulching
SAE- Hunger Banquet
Friday, April 11, 2014
Week 12
Good Afternoon,
Monday-
Leadership- Senior assembly- no class.
Animal Science- Utilized Nearpod app to help guide students through reproductive information about AI and how labs look and identify quality sperm cells. I added to my presentation on the nearpod app by having students answer questions and draw which really was able to show how much information the student took away. It also provided a good opportunity to wrap up thoughts from the class.
Landscape- We worked in the greenhouse today to plant plugs and organize.
SAE- Students worked on preparing for the upcoming events focusing on banquet.
Tuesday-
Leadership- In leadership most students were absent due to senior field trip so we worked on A-Day items.
Animal Science- In Animal Science we started a lab looking at sperm cells in order to take note of abnormalities of cells, concentration and motility. The lab went well, I wish I would have reviewed how to focus a microscope, I thought the students would have been faster at focusing them.
Landscape- In landscape students practiced making boutineers and wrist corsages with left over flowers. The students did a nice job at remembering what they needed to do. I was very frustrated with clean up efforts. I think in the future I will assign cleanup jobs prior to the start of clean up.
SAE- All students on field trip.
Wednesday-
Leadership- Today we combined both leadership classes to work as a joint force to plan and prepare educational displays for A-Day focusing on topics for "Ag in the Classroom". Another student and I worked together to plan the tractor and car show.
Animal Science- Today we continued working on the Animal Science lab. I was very frustrated with the lack of ability to read directions as students did not do steps in the proper order.
Landscape- Today we worked on creative arrangement designs and materials options. Students found examples online and reviewed as well as provided suggestions for all groups.
Thursday-
Leadership- Students worked together to research ares for A-Day.
Animal Science- In Animal Science students finished up their lab and concluding questions. We discussed what was seen and why, I felt it was a really good activity. Once completed students worked in their teams to prepare for tomorrows debate on AI verses Natural breeding.
Landscape-A guest speaker visited today to talk about native plants in Pennsylvania and what an invasive species was. She was from DCNR and provided us with lots of information about using native plants in our landscape we are working on. Hosting a guest speaker was a great opportunity that I intend to do more of in the future.
SAE- In SAE students worked on the senior slide show and coordinating it for the banquet.
Friday-
Leadership- Students worked on designing and getting approved their displays for A-Day.
Animal Science- In Animal Science we discussed rules of debate and proper procedure. I was really impressed with the debates that the students presented. They were finally well thought out and prepared. I am thankful that I made them redo the assignment, I think it said a lot for my expectations.
Landscape-Students put together their creative arrangements today! I was really impressed with how they turned out and how in to it the students were.
Plan for Week 8
Monday- Leadership- Work Day- ADay Displays
Animal Science- 6.3.1
Landscape- How do you transplant?
SAE- Vendor Letters- A-Day, Maple Syrup Proposal
Tuesday- Leadership- Job Profiling
Animal Science- 6.3.1
Landscape- Transplanting Strawberries
SAE- Press Release Review, Maple Syrup Proposal research
Wednesday- Sub- Spring Trip
Leadership- Job Profiling
Animal Science- 6.3.2
Landscape- Planting Pumpkins
SAE- no students
Thursday- Sub- Spring Trip
Leadership- Displays
Animal Science- 6.3.3
Landscape- Greenhouse Assignments- Planting Pumpkins
SAE- no students
Friday-
Off
Monday-
Leadership- Senior assembly- no class.
Animal Science- Utilized Nearpod app to help guide students through reproductive information about AI and how labs look and identify quality sperm cells. I added to my presentation on the nearpod app by having students answer questions and draw which really was able to show how much information the student took away. It also provided a good opportunity to wrap up thoughts from the class.
Landscape- We worked in the greenhouse today to plant plugs and organize.
SAE- Students worked on preparing for the upcoming events focusing on banquet.
Tuesday-
Leadership- In leadership most students were absent due to senior field trip so we worked on A-Day items.
Animal Science- In Animal Science we started a lab looking at sperm cells in order to take note of abnormalities of cells, concentration and motility. The lab went well, I wish I would have reviewed how to focus a microscope, I thought the students would have been faster at focusing them.
Landscape- In landscape students practiced making boutineers and wrist corsages with left over flowers. The students did a nice job at remembering what they needed to do. I was very frustrated with clean up efforts. I think in the future I will assign cleanup jobs prior to the start of clean up.
SAE- All students on field trip.
Wednesday-
Leadership- Today we combined both leadership classes to work as a joint force to plan and prepare educational displays for A-Day focusing on topics for "Ag in the Classroom". Another student and I worked together to plan the tractor and car show.
Animal Science- Today we continued working on the Animal Science lab. I was very frustrated with the lack of ability to read directions as students did not do steps in the proper order.
Landscape- Today we worked on creative arrangement designs and materials options. Students found examples online and reviewed as well as provided suggestions for all groups.
Thursday-
Leadership- Students worked together to research ares for A-Day.
Animal Science- In Animal Science students finished up their lab and concluding questions. We discussed what was seen and why, I felt it was a really good activity. Once completed students worked in their teams to prepare for tomorrows debate on AI verses Natural breeding.
Landscape-A guest speaker visited today to talk about native plants in Pennsylvania and what an invasive species was. She was from DCNR and provided us with lots of information about using native plants in our landscape we are working on. Hosting a guest speaker was a great opportunity that I intend to do more of in the future.
SAE- In SAE students worked on the senior slide show and coordinating it for the banquet.
Friday-
Leadership- Students worked on designing and getting approved their displays for A-Day.
Animal Science- In Animal Science we discussed rules of debate and proper procedure. I was really impressed with the debates that the students presented. They were finally well thought out and prepared. I am thankful that I made them redo the assignment, I think it said a lot for my expectations.
Landscape-Students put together their creative arrangements today! I was really impressed with how they turned out and how in to it the students were.
Plan for Week 8
Monday- Leadership- Work Day- ADay Displays
Animal Science- 6.3.1
Landscape- How do you transplant?
SAE- Vendor Letters- A-Day, Maple Syrup Proposal
Tuesday- Leadership- Job Profiling
Animal Science- 6.3.1
Landscape- Transplanting Strawberries
SAE- Press Release Review, Maple Syrup Proposal research
Wednesday- Sub- Spring Trip
Leadership- Job Profiling
Animal Science- 6.3.2
Landscape- Planting Pumpkins
SAE- no students
Thursday- Sub- Spring Trip
Leadership- Displays
Animal Science- 6.3.3
Landscape- Greenhouse Assignments- Planting Pumpkins
SAE- no students
Friday-
Off
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Farewell Student Teaching
"I always knew that
when I looked back
on the times I cried I would smile.
But I never knew
that when I looked back on the times I smiled
I would cry."
Monday will be rough. My student teaching experience at Cumberland Valley High School was the furthest from what I ever expected.. it was absolutely amazing. I had the opportunity to develop my own classroom and truly call the students my own. I will miss each and every one of them terribly.
The past 13 weeks consisted of many ups and downs, as well as many heart to hearts with students. The students were faced with many changes this semester and together we grew and were able to accomplish many things. The first part of my student teaching I taught students how to work hard, I set my expectations high and settled for nothing less. One student actually told me they hadn't work so hard before. That moment made me smile, and that's when I knew I truly loved what I was doing. Their hard work was recognized, I was proud of them, and they were proud of themselves.
In week 5 I had my students create a list of goals they they wanted to meet before they graduated in June. We discussed goals and held many discussions about the future, growing up, going to college and of course the importance of college scholarships. 8:10 am, it was Monday, week 6, and all of the pervious weeks discussions came to reality. The principle delivered some unexpected news and I found I needed to make a very big commitment to my students... 1) I would support them through anything, 2) We would accomplish all of their goals before June 6th.
The next 6 weeks would consist of many late nights, good discussions with my mentor teachers, lots of encouragement and plenty of patience - both mine and my students. We set many small goals - and celebrated them all! As a whole, we needed to learn to trust each other and compromise.
In the classroom we tried many new things with technology and resources that were are available. I learned that self discovery was key but holding them accountable is critical. By setting expectations, creating standards and nipping things right away my classroom experience was great. No, not every lesson goes as planned but that is all part of learning. I certainly learned not to lower my expectations for any student and that sometimes it is just a matter of a different approach. Despite the fact that I am an Animal Science person, teaching about plants and operating a greenhouse will keep things interesting.
By May 10th, we will have reached all of our goals. Teaching mostly seniors has been a rewarding challenge and I am very thankful for them. I am sincerely appreciative of my mentor teachers, Ms. Darla Romberger and Mr. Randy Cassell for all of their support and commitment this semester. This experience has been a unique opportunity that I am now prepared for anything. I will miss my students but look forward to working with them a few more times in the coming weeks.
But ultimatly at the end of my 13 weeks I learned the following:
1) Always be yourself. Your best qualities will always shine through the rainy days.
2) Have a plan.
3) Also have a plan B, C and maybe even D.
4) Occasionally you may have to skip to plan D. Tomorrow is another day.
5) Be flexible.
6) The best learning actually happens when you let go of the control.
7) As an Ag Teacher, the students do really tell you everything. You are their counselor, life coach, friend and sometimes their reality check.
8) Let your students teach. 1) you may learn something cool. 2) they will respect you even more.
9) Take your leadership team zip lining.
10) Students remember everything.
11) There are apps that control the TV. Always outsmart your students.
12) Don't reinvent the wheel. Do things right the first time.
13) Have a life outside of school.
14) Don't teach from the front of the room.
15) Maintenance and the custodial staff are the best.
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Week 11
Good Afternoon,
Monday-
Leadership- Prep for speeches.
Animal Science- In Animal Science we laid out reproduction tracts of a female cow, pig and sheep. The students were able to compare the tracts as well as cut them apart to see the insides. It was really neat to find the fetal pigs about the size of a half dollar. In changes to the CASE curriculum, I would have presented the information more in-depth before looking at the real examples.
Landscape- We worked in the greenhouse today to plant plugs and organize.
SAE- Students worked on preparing for the upcoming events focusing on banquet.
Tuesday-
Leadership- Before the students started presenting speeches we reviewed good characteristics of a speech. I had kept high expectations for these speeches but was very disappointed with the results. I ultimately think it goes back to the mentality of the class because I don't feel it was anything less than what I presented as an example.
Animal Science- In Animal Science we took notes and reviewed questions and additional images from the day before. I was glad I reviewed and prompted many questions from students to make sure they understood the lab activity.
Landscape- In landscape we started making our round arrangements in order to practice before making the centerpieces for a banquet. To make sure I was clear about my instructions I posed lots of questions as students were working and also talked to students individually. I broke my instructions into clear steps that students completed as a whole, this worked out very well for clarity and keeping students on track. As I worked with students individually I felt I was better able to help them in areas they were weaker in.
Wednesday-
Leadership- I was pleased today with how the students asked and presented questions to make the speakers think and clarify. Some speeches were pretty good but the overall quality is poor. I'm very unsure of how to improve this. I am also concerned that I will have a student who refuses to present their speech. I have simply reminded any students that tomorrow is the final presentation day.
Animal Science- I found a really good AI video today that explained and demonstrated the process of AI. I as able to ad-lip and provide additional details to better inform the students.
Landscape- Today we worked on the second half of our round arrangements. I am very impressed with how the arrangements are turning out.
Thursday-
Leadership- I met and discussed with the Principle today to let them know how I had a few students who seemed as if they would not present a speech, she assured me that I should just simply put a zero in for a grade if they did not do the assignment. I asked the student who I though wasn't prepared before class if she was and she said no. In order to not draw any additional attention to her, I did not call her name when asking for my final presenters. After class she came and talked to me and we made arrangements for her to give her speech the next day. Also to keep the attention of the students since this was the third day of speeches, I gave them white boards to write down questions they had of the presenters. This turned out to be a great idea and kept students focused.
Animal Science- In Animal Science I presented the students with an Inquiry Based opportunity to model the female bovine reproductive system using balloons, life savors and rubber bands. This worked out well but I felt as if it took a lot of coaching. I feel my students struggle to think differently and more in depth because they are usually not asked to.
Landscape- In landscape we started making round arrangements for the Eagle Foundation Banquet. I laid instructions out to the students just as I did previously and it worked well. This time they were very cautious to prevent previous mistakes. It seemed to serve as a good learning opportunity to better understand how to create the arrangements.
SAE- In SAE students worked on the banquet script and brainstormed ideas to make the event better.
Friday-
Leadership-Friday was a work day for A-Day and Banquet prep. Students reviewed flyers and press releases that they generated to send out and be utilized for advertisements. I am glad they are able to see use out of their hard work in the classroom.
Animal Science- In Animal Science I gave the students a debate to work on with a scenario. This was a really good way to see what we needed to clarify as the students prepared their facts. I was very disappointed in what the one team produced and will give them additional time to find more facts and represent next week.
Landscape-We finalized the round arrangements. They looked really nice for the banquet.
SAE- Students began working on the scrap book and their individual assignments for Hunger Banquet.
Plan for Week 8
Monday- Leadership- Work Day- ADay
Animal Science- 6.1.3
Landscape- T- Arrangements
SAE- Vendor Letters- A-Day, Maple Syrup Proposal
Tuesday- Leadership- Job Profiling/ Job Announcements
Animal Science- 6.1.2. Artificial Insemination
Landscape- How do you make Coursages?
SAE- Press Release Review, Maple Syrup Proposal research
Wednesday- Leadership- Resume Writing
Animal Science- 6.1.3
Landscape- How do you transplant plants?/Transplanting Strawberries
SAE- Hunger Banquet Planning/ Invitations
Thursday- Leadership- Resume Writing/ Cover letters
Animal Science- 6.2.1
Landscape- Greenhouse Assignments
SAE- SAE Implementation
Friday-
Leadership- Cover Letters
Animal Science- 6.2.2
Landscape- Cleaning up landscape
SAE- SAE Implementation
Monday-
Leadership- Prep for speeches.
Animal Science- In Animal Science we laid out reproduction tracts of a female cow, pig and sheep. The students were able to compare the tracts as well as cut them apart to see the insides. It was really neat to find the fetal pigs about the size of a half dollar. In changes to the CASE curriculum, I would have presented the information more in-depth before looking at the real examples.
Landscape- We worked in the greenhouse today to plant plugs and organize.
SAE- Students worked on preparing for the upcoming events focusing on banquet.
Tuesday-
Leadership- Before the students started presenting speeches we reviewed good characteristics of a speech. I had kept high expectations for these speeches but was very disappointed with the results. I ultimately think it goes back to the mentality of the class because I don't feel it was anything less than what I presented as an example.
Animal Science- In Animal Science we took notes and reviewed questions and additional images from the day before. I was glad I reviewed and prompted many questions from students to make sure they understood the lab activity.
Landscape- In landscape we started making our round arrangements in order to practice before making the centerpieces for a banquet. To make sure I was clear about my instructions I posed lots of questions as students were working and also talked to students individually. I broke my instructions into clear steps that students completed as a whole, this worked out very well for clarity and keeping students on track. As I worked with students individually I felt I was better able to help them in areas they were weaker in.
Wednesday-
Leadership- I was pleased today with how the students asked and presented questions to make the speakers think and clarify. Some speeches were pretty good but the overall quality is poor. I'm very unsure of how to improve this. I am also concerned that I will have a student who refuses to present their speech. I have simply reminded any students that tomorrow is the final presentation day.
Animal Science- I found a really good AI video today that explained and demonstrated the process of AI. I as able to ad-lip and provide additional details to better inform the students.
Landscape- Today we worked on the second half of our round arrangements. I am very impressed with how the arrangements are turning out.
Thursday-
Leadership- I met and discussed with the Principle today to let them know how I had a few students who seemed as if they would not present a speech, she assured me that I should just simply put a zero in for a grade if they did not do the assignment. I asked the student who I though wasn't prepared before class if she was and she said no. In order to not draw any additional attention to her, I did not call her name when asking for my final presenters. After class she came and talked to me and we made arrangements for her to give her speech the next day. Also to keep the attention of the students since this was the third day of speeches, I gave them white boards to write down questions they had of the presenters. This turned out to be a great idea and kept students focused.
Animal Science- In Animal Science I presented the students with an Inquiry Based opportunity to model the female bovine reproductive system using balloons, life savors and rubber bands. This worked out well but I felt as if it took a lot of coaching. I feel my students struggle to think differently and more in depth because they are usually not asked to.
Landscape- In landscape we started making round arrangements for the Eagle Foundation Banquet. I laid instructions out to the students just as I did previously and it worked well. This time they were very cautious to prevent previous mistakes. It seemed to serve as a good learning opportunity to better understand how to create the arrangements.
SAE- In SAE students worked on the banquet script and brainstormed ideas to make the event better.
Friday-
Leadership-Friday was a work day for A-Day and Banquet prep. Students reviewed flyers and press releases that they generated to send out and be utilized for advertisements. I am glad they are able to see use out of their hard work in the classroom.
Animal Science- In Animal Science I gave the students a debate to work on with a scenario. This was a really good way to see what we needed to clarify as the students prepared their facts. I was very disappointed in what the one team produced and will give them additional time to find more facts and represent next week.
Landscape-We finalized the round arrangements. They looked really nice for the banquet.
SAE- Students began working on the scrap book and their individual assignments for Hunger Banquet.
Plan for Week 8
Monday- Leadership- Work Day- ADay
Animal Science- 6.1.3
Landscape- T- Arrangements
SAE- Vendor Letters- A-Day, Maple Syrup Proposal
Tuesday- Leadership- Job Profiling/ Job Announcements
Animal Science- 6.1.2. Artificial Insemination
Landscape- How do you make Coursages?
SAE- Press Release Review, Maple Syrup Proposal research
Wednesday- Leadership- Resume Writing
Animal Science- 6.1.3
Landscape- How do you transplant plants?/Transplanting Strawberries
SAE- Hunger Banquet Planning/ Invitations
Thursday- Leadership- Resume Writing/ Cover letters
Animal Science- 6.2.1
Landscape- Greenhouse Assignments
SAE- SAE Implementation
Friday-
Leadership- Cover Letters
Animal Science- 6.2.2
Landscape- Cleaning up landscape
SAE- SAE Implementation
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Week 10
Good Afternoon,
Monday-
Leadership- Photography
Animal Science-
Landscape- In landscape we started making our round arrangements out of the tissue paper flowers. I explained the process to the students, however there was a lot going on that morning so I'm not sure if the students understood very clearly. To make sure I was clear about my instructions I posed lots of questions as students were working and also talked to students individually. As I worked with students individually I felt I was better able to help them in areas they were weaker in.
SAE-
Tuesday-
Leadership- Photography
Animal Science-
Landscape- round arrangements
Wednesday-
Leadership- Photography
Animal Science-
Landscape- 5th- finish round arrangements
7th- clean up green house
Thursday-
Leadership- Speeches
Animal Science- Quiz, Pearson Square Ice Cream
Landscape- 5th- Plugs/ setup
7th- round arrangement sketch
Friday-
Attended area CDE contests for Prepared Speaking, Extemp Speaking, Parli Pro and Opening Ceremonies. We took 15 contestants, all of which did very well. It was a good experience in preparation for helping to coordinate these events in the future and understanding the 'behind the scenes'.
Plan for Week 8
Monday- Leadership- Job Profiling
Animal Science- 6.1.2
Landscape- How plugs work/ Planing/ Round Arrangements
SAE- Vendor Letters- A-Day
Tuesday- Leadership- Job Profiling/ Job Announcements
Animal Science- 6.1.2. Artificial Insemination
Landscape- Round Arrangements
SAE- Press Release Review - A-Day
Wednesday- Leadership- Resume Writing
Animal Science- 6.1.2, Artificial Insemination, Inquiry based instruction
Landscape- Round Arrangements/ Transplanting Strawberries
SAE- Hunger Banquet Planning/ Invitations
Thursday- Leadership- Resume Writing/ Cover letters
Animal Science- 6.1.3
Landscape- Round Arrangements for Banquet
SAE- SAE Implementation
Friday-
Leadership- Cover Letters
Animal Science- 6.1.3
Landscape- Round Arrangements for Banquet
SAE- SAE Implementation
Monday-
Leadership- Photography
Animal Science-
Landscape- In landscape we started making our round arrangements out of the tissue paper flowers. I explained the process to the students, however there was a lot going on that morning so I'm not sure if the students understood very clearly. To make sure I was clear about my instructions I posed lots of questions as students were working and also talked to students individually. As I worked with students individually I felt I was better able to help them in areas they were weaker in.
SAE-
Tuesday-
Leadership- Photography
Animal Science-
Landscape- round arrangements
Wednesday-
Leadership- Photography
Animal Science-
Landscape- 5th- finish round arrangements
7th- clean up green house
Thursday-
Leadership- Speeches
Animal Science- Quiz, Pearson Square Ice Cream
Landscape- 5th- Plugs/ setup
7th- round arrangement sketch
Friday-
Attended area CDE contests for Prepared Speaking, Extemp Speaking, Parli Pro and Opening Ceremonies. We took 15 contestants, all of which did very well. It was a good experience in preparation for helping to coordinate these events in the future and understanding the 'behind the scenes'.
Plan for Week 8
Monday- Leadership- Job Profiling
Animal Science- 6.1.2
Landscape- How plugs work/ Planing/ Round Arrangements
SAE- Vendor Letters- A-Day
Tuesday- Leadership- Job Profiling/ Job Announcements
Animal Science- 6.1.2. Artificial Insemination
Landscape- Round Arrangements
SAE- Press Release Review - A-Day
Wednesday- Leadership- Resume Writing
Animal Science- 6.1.2, Artificial Insemination, Inquiry based instruction
Landscape- Round Arrangements/ Transplanting Strawberries
SAE- Hunger Banquet Planning/ Invitations
Thursday- Leadership- Resume Writing/ Cover letters
Animal Science- 6.1.3
Landscape- Round Arrangements for Banquet
SAE- SAE Implementation
Friday-
Leadership- Cover Letters
Animal Science- 6.1.3
Landscape- Round Arrangements for Banquet
SAE- SAE Implementation
Monday, March 24, 2014
Week 9
Good Afternoon,
Monday- On Monday we started working on A-Day planning in leadership. The students had good ideas and it was helpful to discuss with Alumni members over the weekend to clarify information before the class discussion. I think breaking the students up into committees seems to be a good way to handle this class to productively accomplish tasks. In Animal Science I retaught the pearson square because it had been so long since we started covering that material. Students seemed to recall most information but needed to be refreshed about a few things. I mixed things up by having students demo the problems on the board to check answers. I would like to try in the future to have one student write and another student tell the other student what needs to happen. In landscape we learned about materials used in floriculture and watched a video about the processes of cutting and mailing flowers from producers. This worked out well to inform students of the process as they were surprised about what they learned. I struggled with this class today and I think mixing things up more will help. In SAE I explained an SAE implementation project that I wanted the students to create to leave for members in the future. They seem fairly excited about it and I think it will work well.
Tuesday- In leadership I presented a powerpoint on how to properly write a thank you note. I was surprised by the inability of students to properly write one and was thankful I had examples on the slide show to leave up. Students wrote notes of thanks to supporters and resent events that we attended. In Animal Science students actually got to implement their own feed ration! It was awesome, they did the math via the pearson square and then made the calculations to determine how much ingredients were needed to make chex mix. The students loved it and it was a good lesson, much needed as the CASE unit was getting dry. In landscape students took a materials quiz on floriculture, it was pretty simple but to correctly answer a few questions they needed to be listening and taking notes. Once done we started to make boutineers. I kept the students hustling as they needed to make 2 paper flowers before we could actually make the boutineer. SAE continued working on their projects.
Wednesday- Leadership continued working on thank you notes as each student had an assigned list to write to. All students finished their notes and signed the others. I should have had something small for them to do at the end. In Animal Science we started solving problems in order to be able to enter information into a real system to calculate feed rations. Students did fairly well to determine the answers and work through things with just guiding support. In landscaping we learned about how value is given to materials and how things are priced. The 7th period class didn't get through the entire boutineer but it didn't take them long to make. In SAE students worked on projects and submitted work.
Thursday-
In leadership students learned about what was in and how to write a press release. The remainder of the period was spent brainstorming and coming up with information to include in their press releases for upcoming events. In animal science students continued work on 5.5.4 but it is taking them longer then I planned so they will need to finish tomorrow. I took the landscaping class outside to check out the area that we will be working on, as a class we brainstormed ideas and parameters to consider. Students will be developing their ideas into a design to propose to the maintenance department for approval. In SAE students worked on organizing old scrapbooks for the 60th banquet and memorizing speeches.
Friday-
Co-hort meeting, sub plans to finish Thursdays' assignments.
Plan for Week 8
Monday- Leadership- Photography in Communications
Animal Science- 5.5.5
Landscape- Landscape designs
SAE- speeches & banquet
Tuesday- Leadership- Photography assignments
Animal Science- 5.5.5
Landscape- Tissue paper Round Arrangements
SAE- speeches & banquet
Wednesday- Leadership- Photography assignments
Animal Science- Wrap Up to unit 5; Ice Making
Landscape- Round Arrangements
SAE- Hunger Banquet Planning/ Speeches/ Banquet
Thursday- Leadership- A-Day Planning
Animal Science- 6.1.1
Landscape- Round Arrangements
SAE- SAE Implementation
Friday-
Leadership- Current Event
Animal Science- Animal By-Products
Landscape- Current Event
SAE- All Students at CDE Day
Monday- On Monday we started working on A-Day planning in leadership. The students had good ideas and it was helpful to discuss with Alumni members over the weekend to clarify information before the class discussion. I think breaking the students up into committees seems to be a good way to handle this class to productively accomplish tasks. In Animal Science I retaught the pearson square because it had been so long since we started covering that material. Students seemed to recall most information but needed to be refreshed about a few things. I mixed things up by having students demo the problems on the board to check answers. I would like to try in the future to have one student write and another student tell the other student what needs to happen. In landscape we learned about materials used in floriculture and watched a video about the processes of cutting and mailing flowers from producers. This worked out well to inform students of the process as they were surprised about what they learned. I struggled with this class today and I think mixing things up more will help. In SAE I explained an SAE implementation project that I wanted the students to create to leave for members in the future. They seem fairly excited about it and I think it will work well.
Tuesday- In leadership I presented a powerpoint on how to properly write a thank you note. I was surprised by the inability of students to properly write one and was thankful I had examples on the slide show to leave up. Students wrote notes of thanks to supporters and resent events that we attended. In Animal Science students actually got to implement their own feed ration! It was awesome, they did the math via the pearson square and then made the calculations to determine how much ingredients were needed to make chex mix. The students loved it and it was a good lesson, much needed as the CASE unit was getting dry. In landscape students took a materials quiz on floriculture, it was pretty simple but to correctly answer a few questions they needed to be listening and taking notes. Once done we started to make boutineers. I kept the students hustling as they needed to make 2 paper flowers before we could actually make the boutineer. SAE continued working on their projects.
Wednesday- Leadership continued working on thank you notes as each student had an assigned list to write to. All students finished their notes and signed the others. I should have had something small for them to do at the end. In Animal Science we started solving problems in order to be able to enter information into a real system to calculate feed rations. Students did fairly well to determine the answers and work through things with just guiding support. In landscaping we learned about how value is given to materials and how things are priced. The 7th period class didn't get through the entire boutineer but it didn't take them long to make. In SAE students worked on projects and submitted work.
Thursday-
In leadership students learned about what was in and how to write a press release. The remainder of the period was spent brainstorming and coming up with information to include in their press releases for upcoming events. In animal science students continued work on 5.5.4 but it is taking them longer then I planned so they will need to finish tomorrow. I took the landscaping class outside to check out the area that we will be working on, as a class we brainstormed ideas and parameters to consider. Students will be developing their ideas into a design to propose to the maintenance department for approval. In SAE students worked on organizing old scrapbooks for the 60th banquet and memorizing speeches.
Friday-
Co-hort meeting, sub plans to finish Thursdays' assignments.
Plan for Week 8
Monday- Leadership- Photography in Communications
Animal Science- 5.5.5
Landscape- Landscape designs
SAE- speeches & banquet
Tuesday- Leadership- Photography assignments
Animal Science- 5.5.5
Landscape- Tissue paper Round Arrangements
SAE- speeches & banquet
Wednesday- Leadership- Photography assignments
Animal Science- Wrap Up to unit 5; Ice Making
Landscape- Round Arrangements
SAE- Hunger Banquet Planning/ Speeches/ Banquet
Thursday- Leadership- A-Day Planning
Animal Science- 6.1.1
Landscape- Round Arrangements
SAE- SAE Implementation
Friday-
Leadership- Current Event
Animal Science- Animal By-Products
Landscape- Current Event
SAE- All Students at CDE Day
Monday, March 17, 2014
Good Afternoon,
Monday- SLLC
Tuesday- SLLC
Wednesday- Today in leadership students wrapped up what they worked on with the sub. They finalized speeches, extemporaneous speeches and worked on planning our itinerary for Spring Trip. In Animal Science student researched and began preparing presentations for the petting zoo on their assigned animal. In both landscaping classes they worked on creating tissue-paper flowers to be used next week as they begin to start making arrangements. Talking and behavior seemed to be better during 5th period, I think the new room arrangement is helping. In SAE students worked on some petting zoo organization and researched spring trip activities.
Thursday-
In leadership we had a work day in preparation for the Petting Zoo. I was sincerely impressed with the amount of work the students were able to accomplish cleaning up the shop. In Animal Science students finalized their research by creating animal posters to be displayed at the petting zoo. In Landscaping students presented their work from Monday and Tuesday. After the presentations we went through the next phase of the power point on forticulture color. I am still disappointed in the work ethic and conceptualizing of information in my 5th period class in comparison to the 7th period.
Friday-
Friday was a very hectic day with the Petting Zoo. I am very proud of a student in my leadership class that organized the entire petting zoo. He did a really nice job making contacts, logistics and announcements. The petting zoo was very busy but not crowded because we had the large animals outside and the smaller ones inside so the people were spread out between outside- the bay- the shop- the lab and the greenhouse. Follow-up thank you notes will be sent to those how supplied animals.
Plan for Week 4
Monday- Leadership- Photography in Communications
Animal Science- Pearson Square
Landscape- History of Floriculture
SAE- update AET
Tuesday- Leadership- Photography/ Communication Project
Animal Science- Pearson Square
Landscape- History of Floriculture, Paper flowers
SAE- update AET
Wednesday- Leadership- How to write effective thank you notes
Animal Science- 5.5.1
Landscape- What materials are used in Floriculture?
SAE- Hunger Banquet Planning
Thursday- Leadership- Press Release
Animal Science- 5.5.2
Landscape- What flowers kind of flowers are in floriculture?
SAE- What are Goals?
Friday-
Leadership- A-Day Planning
Animal Science- Petting Zoo
Landscape- Petting Zoo
SAE- Petting Zoo
Monday- SLLC
Tuesday- SLLC
Wednesday- Today in leadership students wrapped up what they worked on with the sub. They finalized speeches, extemporaneous speeches and worked on planning our itinerary for Spring Trip. In Animal Science student researched and began preparing presentations for the petting zoo on their assigned animal. In both landscaping classes they worked on creating tissue-paper flowers to be used next week as they begin to start making arrangements. Talking and behavior seemed to be better during 5th period, I think the new room arrangement is helping. In SAE students worked on some petting zoo organization and researched spring trip activities.
Thursday-
In leadership we had a work day in preparation for the Petting Zoo. I was sincerely impressed with the amount of work the students were able to accomplish cleaning up the shop. In Animal Science students finalized their research by creating animal posters to be displayed at the petting zoo. In Landscaping students presented their work from Monday and Tuesday. After the presentations we went through the next phase of the power point on forticulture color. I am still disappointed in the work ethic and conceptualizing of information in my 5th period class in comparison to the 7th period.
Friday-
Friday was a very hectic day with the Petting Zoo. I am very proud of a student in my leadership class that organized the entire petting zoo. He did a really nice job making contacts, logistics and announcements. The petting zoo was very busy but not crowded because we had the large animals outside and the smaller ones inside so the people were spread out between outside- the bay- the shop- the lab and the greenhouse. Follow-up thank you notes will be sent to those how supplied animals.
Plan for Week 4
Monday- Leadership- Photography in Communications
Animal Science- Pearson Square
Landscape- History of Floriculture
SAE- update AET
Tuesday- Leadership- Photography/ Communication Project
Animal Science- Pearson Square
Landscape- History of Floriculture, Paper flowers
SAE- update AET
Wednesday- Leadership- How to write effective thank you notes
Animal Science- 5.5.1
Landscape- What materials are used in Floriculture?
SAE- Hunger Banquet Planning
Thursday- Leadership- Press Release
Animal Science- 5.5.2
Landscape- What flowers kind of flowers are in floriculture?
SAE- What are Goals?
Friday-
Leadership- A-Day Planning
Animal Science- Petting Zoo
Landscape- Petting Zoo
SAE- Petting Zoo
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Week 7 3/3-3/7
Good Afternoon,
Monday- Today was an interesting day. The Principle visited each of my classes today to inform the students of the current situation at Cumberland Valley. The students took the new well as they know we all will be here if they need anything. Immediately in Leadership we began discussion options for spring trip so that way the students would have something to look forward to. The students are excited and have been coming up with fun activities that we could check out. The Animal Science class viewed a powerpoint. I think I did a good job of asking and prompting questions at the class to keep them thinking about the content. I have some really smart kids in the class so I need to challenge them to think deeper. Landscaping had a workday to meet with groups in order to do their forma presentations tomorrow. We discussed what a formal presentation looks like and what both the presenter and audience should be doing during it. For tomorrow I want to prepare an evaluation for each student so they are paying attention and taking note to the presenters. In SAE students worked on finalizing/ editing proficiency applications as we discussed what a asset and non- productive asset was.
Tuesday- In Leadership today we worked on finalizing teachers luncheon and preparing speeches. I continue to do mini lessons on speeches and that seems to offer a good break between actually learning and working on speeches. In Animal Science students started working on solving dry matter equation problems and % nutrient per feed type. Students struggled greatly with solving the math problems and understanding the why behind some of the problems. As we got into it I realized that I needed to do more rechecks so I would ask students after a certain point to stop and do a quick understanding check. This helped but it was still a struggle. Landscape had time to wrap up presentations and started to present. I was pleased with the content as we stress more about what a formal presentation should look like. In SAE students worked on proficiency applications.
Wednesday- In leadership students worked on speeches and putting their content into words. Animal Science we continued working on the math problems. Before the class I sat down and looked more into some of the whys and results behind the problems. At the beginning of the class I started out explaining key concepts. I think this helped students in there understanding. I was still struggling with kid shutting down because "they are not good at math". My goal was that they understand the general concept. In landscape students presented career presentations. The speeches were good yet there were some really poor presentations. My goal is to help these students put together stronger formal public speeches. In SAE students were still working on proficiency and understanding how to sell themselves as an individual and what they and their SAE is capable of.
Thursday-
In leadership half the class is working on writing speeches while the other is working on peer editing and making improvements based on content. I am disappointed with their progress as I feel they aren't being very productive. I struggle to keep them on track despite continual walking around, I threaten to take points away and I'm literally not sure what else to do some days. I think a lot of this goes back to the week they are having and the current substitute. In Animal Science we took an open note quiz on the previous section of feed stuffs. We peer graded the quiz and I was glad we did because we were able to make a stronger connection and clarify material. In landscape we began with a powerpoint on Introduction to Floriculture. Again my 5th period class was way off track (same students as leadership) and I told them I would be changing their seats tomorrow. When comparing my 7th period class we accomplished a lot more by getting through the powerpoint and getting a good start on the on floriculture history project. In SAE we are still working on finishing and peer reviewing proficiency applications. The progression was good today as they are realizing they need to be completed tomorrow.
Friday-
Leadership worked on submitting speeches. All students were to time themselves to see where they were at as far as time wise. If they were low on time I helped them find areas to expand on. I was surprised with how many were completed in order to submit for the area contest. In Animal Science we finished reviewing conclusion questions and making a stronger connection despite the vast conclusion and shut down over the math problems. It came to the point that honestly they get the general concept which is what I wanted but its not worth any more struggle. We moved on to the pearson square but everyone seems to be on the same page. In landscape we did a mini landscape/ florial design/ terrarium. This was a good wrap up to landscape and intro to floriculture. Side note in 5th period I changed seats, it didn't go over and a student walked out guidance. They will get over it and I talked to guidance to make sure the student arrived at guidance. They supported my decision to change seats for classroom management purposes. SAE is finalized their proficiencies, I am pleased with the quality for the most part.
Plan for Week 4
Monday- Leadership- Sub in for SLLC- perfect speeches, what does a good speech sound like?
Animal Science- News article and essay
Landscape- History of Floriculture
SAE- update AET
Tuesday- Leadership- Sub in for SLLC- extemporaneous speeches, topics provided.
Animal Science- Byproducts BINGO/ what are cattle by-products
Landscape- History of Floriculture, Paper flowers
SAE- update AET
Wednesday- Leadership- How to write effective thank you notes
Animal Science- 5.5.1
Landscape- What materials are used in Floriculture?
SAE- Hunger Banquet Planning
Thursday- Leadership- Communication Activity- Signs for Petting Zoo/ Prep
Animal Science- 5.5.2
Landscape- What flowers kind of flowers are in floriculture?
SAE- What are Goals?
Friday-
Leadership- Petting Zoo
Animal Science- Petting Zoo
Landscape- Petting Zoo
SAE- Petting Zoo
Monday- Today was an interesting day. The Principle visited each of my classes today to inform the students of the current situation at Cumberland Valley. The students took the new well as they know we all will be here if they need anything. Immediately in Leadership we began discussion options for spring trip so that way the students would have something to look forward to. The students are excited and have been coming up with fun activities that we could check out. The Animal Science class viewed a powerpoint. I think I did a good job of asking and prompting questions at the class to keep them thinking about the content. I have some really smart kids in the class so I need to challenge them to think deeper. Landscaping had a workday to meet with groups in order to do their forma presentations tomorrow. We discussed what a formal presentation looks like and what both the presenter and audience should be doing during it. For tomorrow I want to prepare an evaluation for each student so they are paying attention and taking note to the presenters. In SAE students worked on finalizing/ editing proficiency applications as we discussed what a asset and non- productive asset was.
Tuesday- In Leadership today we worked on finalizing teachers luncheon and preparing speeches. I continue to do mini lessons on speeches and that seems to offer a good break between actually learning and working on speeches. In Animal Science students started working on solving dry matter equation problems and % nutrient per feed type. Students struggled greatly with solving the math problems and understanding the why behind some of the problems. As we got into it I realized that I needed to do more rechecks so I would ask students after a certain point to stop and do a quick understanding check. This helped but it was still a struggle. Landscape had time to wrap up presentations and started to present. I was pleased with the content as we stress more about what a formal presentation should look like. In SAE students worked on proficiency applications.
Wednesday- In leadership students worked on speeches and putting their content into words. Animal Science we continued working on the math problems. Before the class I sat down and looked more into some of the whys and results behind the problems. At the beginning of the class I started out explaining key concepts. I think this helped students in there understanding. I was still struggling with kid shutting down because "they are not good at math". My goal was that they understand the general concept. In landscape students presented career presentations. The speeches were good yet there were some really poor presentations. My goal is to help these students put together stronger formal public speeches. In SAE students were still working on proficiency and understanding how to sell themselves as an individual and what they and their SAE is capable of.
Thursday-
In leadership half the class is working on writing speeches while the other is working on peer editing and making improvements based on content. I am disappointed with their progress as I feel they aren't being very productive. I struggle to keep them on track despite continual walking around, I threaten to take points away and I'm literally not sure what else to do some days. I think a lot of this goes back to the week they are having and the current substitute. In Animal Science we took an open note quiz on the previous section of feed stuffs. We peer graded the quiz and I was glad we did because we were able to make a stronger connection and clarify material. In landscape we began with a powerpoint on Introduction to Floriculture. Again my 5th period class was way off track (same students as leadership) and I told them I would be changing their seats tomorrow. When comparing my 7th period class we accomplished a lot more by getting through the powerpoint and getting a good start on the on floriculture history project. In SAE we are still working on finishing and peer reviewing proficiency applications. The progression was good today as they are realizing they need to be completed tomorrow.
Friday-
Leadership worked on submitting speeches. All students were to time themselves to see where they were at as far as time wise. If they were low on time I helped them find areas to expand on. I was surprised with how many were completed in order to submit for the area contest. In Animal Science we finished reviewing conclusion questions and making a stronger connection despite the vast conclusion and shut down over the math problems. It came to the point that honestly they get the general concept which is what I wanted but its not worth any more struggle. We moved on to the pearson square but everyone seems to be on the same page. In landscape we did a mini landscape/ florial design/ terrarium. This was a good wrap up to landscape and intro to floriculture. Side note in 5th period I changed seats, it didn't go over and a student walked out guidance. They will get over it and I talked to guidance to make sure the student arrived at guidance. They supported my decision to change seats for classroom management purposes. SAE is finalized their proficiencies, I am pleased with the quality for the most part.
Plan for Week 4
Monday- Leadership- Sub in for SLLC- perfect speeches, what does a good speech sound like?
Animal Science- News article and essay
Landscape- History of Floriculture
SAE- update AET
Tuesday- Leadership- Sub in for SLLC- extemporaneous speeches, topics provided.
Animal Science- Byproducts BINGO/ what are cattle by-products
Landscape- History of Floriculture, Paper flowers
SAE- update AET
Wednesday- Leadership- How to write effective thank you notes
Animal Science- 5.5.1
Landscape- What materials are used in Floriculture?
SAE- Hunger Banquet Planning
Thursday- Leadership- Communication Activity- Signs for Petting Zoo/ Prep
Animal Science- 5.5.2
Landscape- What flowers kind of flowers are in floriculture?
SAE- What are Goals?
Friday-
Leadership- Petting Zoo
Animal Science- Petting Zoo
Landscape- Petting Zoo
SAE- Petting Zoo
Monday, March 3, 2014
Week 6 2/24-2/28
Good Afternoon,
Monday- This week started out strong as I started my leadership class out by first asking what issues they were concerned about in agriculture. This lead into introducing the prepared speaking contest and conservation option. All of the students selected really good topics that I think will generate lots of interesting discussion and search of interesting facts. The more I think about how impressed I am with my students speach topics I wish Cumberland County had a county contest before Area to provide practice and help weed out the students. I think this is something if I would end up in the area I would like to potentially offer other options for the students because I personally am not looking forward to selecting just three to move on. I have discussed with my co-teacher about our options to select students. In Animal Science we were able to started our feed lab in order to determine the energy content of feed. This was my first lab with the students and it went really well. It is such a different situation from my AFNR lab. In AFNR I presented a PowerPoint and then students went to the lab to practice/ inquire about the new equipment that they will be using this week. Landscape was interesting today as we started learning about turf grasses per student request. Students also researched career opportunities in the local area involving turf. In this class I'm struggling with classroom management when they are working on assignments. In SAE students worked on proficiency applications. In the future, I will provide prime examples of proficiency applications to help students develop stronger answers.
Tuesday- In Leadership today we worked on finalizing teachers luncheon and preparing speeches. I continue to do mini lessons on speeches and that seems to offer a good break between actually learning and working on speeches. In Animal Science students looked up information on essential nutrients. This information is rather dry so I incorporated their favorite foods into the CASE worksheet to allow students to make connections between content and classifying their foods. Leadership presented their turf career information and opportunities. I need to plan out some quick go to articles to have students read/ answer questions on if they get finished early because the 5th period class accomplishes less than the 7th period.
Wednesday- In leadership students worked on speeches and researching. Animal Science students classified different types of feeds and feed additives. I think next time I wouldn't have labeled the feeds and set it up more like a skill a thon to have the students try to determine what kind of feed it was or mineral. I think this would have challenged the more than the classification because my students seem more advanced. In landscape I we learned about proper care for lawns I terms of mowing. In order to make my students pay attention I had them pick select groups that they would then be in to take a group quiz the next day. I will use this technique again as I seen positive results as far as attention and taking the content more seriously. The half of the SAE class are about done their proficiency applications at this point, this will leave us in a good place to begin peer reviewing.
Thursday-
In leadership students had a work day in order to count and sort food from the February Food Drive that we can use the numbers for a grant. Other students began prepping for teacher luncheon and hanging up decorations. In the animal science class I was trying to teach them information from a powerpoint provided by CASE. The powerpoints are rather dry so I think next time I need to do more to spruce them up. I will look into either using Nearpod or Prezi to make them more interactive. Landscape took their group quizzes an then I started them on a careers assignment to wrap up the landscaping unit. In SAE I printed out students proficiency applications that were completed to allow them to peer review and other students worked on theirs. I think next time I will provide a rubric so the students take more time and are able to provide more constructive advice.
Friday-
Today was teachers luncheon. Students worked very hard to help prepare food and setup the library while in leadership. The Animal Science class wrapped up their lab worksheet from the previous day with the sub while I helped other FFA members prepare food. In the landscaping classes students worked on their group assignments and then played Ag Trivia towards the end of class. The SAE used the time to cleanup and organize.
Plan for Week 4
Monday- Leadership- Spring Trip meeting/ Planning
Animal Science- Powerpoint on nutritional Disorders and 5.4.2 worksheet. Notebook check
Landscape- Workday for career presentations.
SAE- What is an asset?
Tuesday- Leadership- Making speeches connect.
Animal Science- 5.5.1 Rational Rules of Thumb
Landscape- What landscaping careers are out there?
SAE- What is a liability?
Wednesday- Leadership- How can we improve others' speeches?
Animal Science- 5.5.2 Pearson square meal
Landscape- What is floriculture?
SAE- A picture says 1000 words?.. literally.
Thursday- Leadership- Editing, improving speeches.
Animal Science- 5.5.3. Snack Time
Landscape- What makes up an arrangement?
SAE- Editing, finalizing Proficiencies.
Friday-
Leadership- What does a good speech take?
Animal Science- 5.5.3 Snack Time Continued
Landscape- What materials do we need?
SAE- Finalizing, printing proficiencies.
Monday- This week started out strong as I started my leadership class out by first asking what issues they were concerned about in agriculture. This lead into introducing the prepared speaking contest and conservation option. All of the students selected really good topics that I think will generate lots of interesting discussion and search of interesting facts. The more I think about how impressed I am with my students speach topics I wish Cumberland County had a county contest before Area to provide practice and help weed out the students. I think this is something if I would end up in the area I would like to potentially offer other options for the students because I personally am not looking forward to selecting just three to move on. I have discussed with my co-teacher about our options to select students. In Animal Science we were able to started our feed lab in order to determine the energy content of feed. This was my first lab with the students and it went really well. It is such a different situation from my AFNR lab. In AFNR I presented a PowerPoint and then students went to the lab to practice/ inquire about the new equipment that they will be using this week. Landscape was interesting today as we started learning about turf grasses per student request. Students also researched career opportunities in the local area involving turf. In this class I'm struggling with classroom management when they are working on assignments. In SAE students worked on proficiency applications. In the future, I will provide prime examples of proficiency applications to help students develop stronger answers.
Tuesday- In Leadership today we worked on finalizing teachers luncheon and preparing speeches. I continue to do mini lessons on speeches and that seems to offer a good break between actually learning and working on speeches. In Animal Science students looked up information on essential nutrients. This information is rather dry so I incorporated their favorite foods into the CASE worksheet to allow students to make connections between content and classifying their foods. Leadership presented their turf career information and opportunities. I need to plan out some quick go to articles to have students read/ answer questions on if they get finished early because the 5th period class accomplishes less than the 7th period.
Wednesday- In leadership students worked on speeches and researching. Animal Science students classified different types of feeds and feed additives. I think next time I wouldn't have labeled the feeds and set it up more like a skill a thon to have the students try to determine what kind of feed it was or mineral. I think this would have challenged the more than the classification because my students seem more advanced. In landscape I we learned about proper care for lawns I terms of mowing. In order to make my students pay attention I had them pick select groups that they would then be in to take a group quiz the next day. I will use this technique again as I seen positive results as far as attention and taking the content more seriously. The half of the SAE class are about done their proficiency applications at this point, this will leave us in a good place to begin peer reviewing.
Thursday-
In leadership students had a work day in order to count and sort food from the February Food Drive that we can use the numbers for a grant. Other students began prepping for teacher luncheon and hanging up decorations. In the animal science class I was trying to teach them information from a powerpoint provided by CASE. The powerpoints are rather dry so I think next time I need to do more to spruce them up. I will look into either using Nearpod or Prezi to make them more interactive. Landscape took their group quizzes an then I started them on a careers assignment to wrap up the landscaping unit. In SAE I printed out students proficiency applications that were completed to allow them to peer review and other students worked on theirs. I think next time I will provide a rubric so the students take more time and are able to provide more constructive advice.
Friday-
Today was teachers luncheon. Students worked very hard to help prepare food and setup the library while in leadership. The Animal Science class wrapped up their lab worksheet from the previous day with the sub while I helped other FFA members prepare food. In the landscaping classes students worked on their group assignments and then played Ag Trivia towards the end of class. The SAE used the time to cleanup and organize.
Plan for Week 4
Monday- Leadership- Spring Trip meeting/ Planning
Animal Science- Powerpoint on nutritional Disorders and 5.4.2 worksheet. Notebook check
Landscape- Workday for career presentations.
SAE- What is an asset?
Tuesday- Leadership- Making speeches connect.
Animal Science- 5.5.1 Rational Rules of Thumb
Landscape- What landscaping careers are out there?
SAE- What is a liability?
Wednesday- Leadership- How can we improve others' speeches?
Animal Science- 5.5.2 Pearson square meal
Landscape- What is floriculture?
SAE- A picture says 1000 words?.. literally.
Thursday- Leadership- Editing, improving speeches.
Animal Science- 5.5.3. Snack Time
Landscape- What makes up an arrangement?
SAE- Editing, finalizing Proficiencies.
Friday-
Leadership- What does a good speech take?
Animal Science- 5.5.3 Snack Time Continued
Landscape- What materials do we need?
SAE- Finalizing, printing proficiencies.
Sunday, February 9, 2014
Week 3 Feb 2- 8th
Good Afternoon,
Monday- Snow Day
Tuesday- Today Cumberland Valley had a 2 hour delay due to the cold temperatures, this decreased class time to 26 minutes. I started off the morning with my facilitating my first leadership class. Unfortunately I wasn't able to really do anything because we were on a shortened schedule and the students needed to finalize record books.
During AFNR we were able to wrap up the notes we were working on Friday. Students researched information, presented it to the class and then a added any additional material that was missed but originally included in the material. The class went well and I had few behavior issues as I kept students busy things moving.
In landscaping I presented a powerpoint on Edible Plants it was fun as I had students look up samples of edible plants which worked out well. I am surprised how students are having issues to creating their designs to scale so I am trying to help them individually as they need help. Working one on one is helpful and then they can help other students.
Again in SAE the students worked to finish up their record books.
Wednesday-Snow Day.
Thursday-
2 Hour Delay..Today I was really able to introduce myself to my Leadership and SAE classes. I started the day off with my leadership class as we discussed the basics of communication and discussed the difference between verbal and non-verbal and the basic elements of both. This went well and I think students will be receptive to what I have planed for the unit. I did notice that I will struggle with interruptions from the seniors in this class. AFNR went well as we were in the lab. Students were only able to scratch the surface of the lab but they seemed to be doing well. It is a huge struggle with this class to give directions and have them follow them as the labs are complicated however I have been told it is designed that way for students to ask additional questions as they go. I have discussed with Ms. Romberger about possible solutions. We came up with giving out question cards for teacher and groups to make the students think about what they are doing and make their questions more meaningful. We also discussed the possibility of implementing Popsicle chores for students who finish up early. The challenge is to develop chores that require little question. Landscaping went well as we discussed best practices for landscaping and the benefits of the different seasons. I posed lots of questions to discuss the material and the students did well answer the questions as they were very knowledgeable. In SAE I was able to introduce my expectations for the class and was firm about what I expect from them when they come to the class. As I observed I didn't care for how the students were disengaged and didn't check into the class. I am hoping this class can be very successful as they can really grow as a students and FFA members.
Friday-
Sub Plans Written while at Record Book Contest.
The record book contest was an interested and worthwhile experience. We were able to meet with other teachers and learn more about programs from across the state and other students SAE projects. By helping to score the SAE books I think I will better be able to help prepare students in the future.
Plan for Week 4
Monday- Leadership- Committee Meetings as a group for FFA Week - Where are we at?
Animal Science- Calf Necropsy on a twin bull calf/ connecting differences between monogastric/ ruminate animals
AFNR- 4.3.1 The Story of Water
Landscape- Microscopes/ What are the functions of a plant?
SAE- What is a performance review? / Set up Proficiency Applications
- SMART goals, advantages/ disadvantages our SAE's have
Tuesday- Leadership- What are the different communication types- styles of communication/ FFA Week Communication Assignment
Animal Science- 5.3.1 Energy in Feed
AFNR- 4.3.2 Running Water
Landscape- What are the functions of roots?
SAE- What skills, competencies and knowledge do you possess?
Wednesday- Leadership- What are the different communication types- 5 communication levels/ FFA Week Communication Assignment
Animal Science- 5.3.2 What's in it for me?
AFNR- 4.3.3
Landscape- What are the functions of roots- continued.
SAE- What's in stock?
Thursday- Leadership- FFA Week Communication Assignment
Animal Science- 5.3.3 It's all on the label
AFNR- 4.3.4 Testing for Quality
Landscape- What chemical reaction - photosynthesis?
SAE- What is a liability?
Friday-
Leadership- FFA Week Communication Assignment/ FFA Week Prep
Animal Science- 5.3 Section Wrap Up
AFNR- Finishing 4.3.4
Landscape- Can I be a landscape designer?
SAE- What's my profit?
Monday- Snow Day
Tuesday- Today Cumberland Valley had a 2 hour delay due to the cold temperatures, this decreased class time to 26 minutes. I started off the morning with my facilitating my first leadership class. Unfortunately I wasn't able to really do anything because we were on a shortened schedule and the students needed to finalize record books.
During AFNR we were able to wrap up the notes we were working on Friday. Students researched information, presented it to the class and then a added any additional material that was missed but originally included in the material. The class went well and I had few behavior issues as I kept students busy things moving.
In landscaping I presented a powerpoint on Edible Plants it was fun as I had students look up samples of edible plants which worked out well. I am surprised how students are having issues to creating their designs to scale so I am trying to help them individually as they need help. Working one on one is helpful and then they can help other students.
Again in SAE the students worked to finish up their record books.
Wednesday-Snow Day.
Thursday-
2 Hour Delay..Today I was really able to introduce myself to my Leadership and SAE classes. I started the day off with my leadership class as we discussed the basics of communication and discussed the difference between verbal and non-verbal and the basic elements of both. This went well and I think students will be receptive to what I have planed for the unit. I did notice that I will struggle with interruptions from the seniors in this class. AFNR went well as we were in the lab. Students were only able to scratch the surface of the lab but they seemed to be doing well. It is a huge struggle with this class to give directions and have them follow them as the labs are complicated however I have been told it is designed that way for students to ask additional questions as they go. I have discussed with Ms. Romberger about possible solutions. We came up with giving out question cards for teacher and groups to make the students think about what they are doing and make their questions more meaningful. We also discussed the possibility of implementing Popsicle chores for students who finish up early. The challenge is to develop chores that require little question. Landscaping went well as we discussed best practices for landscaping and the benefits of the different seasons. I posed lots of questions to discuss the material and the students did well answer the questions as they were very knowledgeable. In SAE I was able to introduce my expectations for the class and was firm about what I expect from them when they come to the class. As I observed I didn't care for how the students were disengaged and didn't check into the class. I am hoping this class can be very successful as they can really grow as a students and FFA members.
Friday-
Sub Plans Written while at Record Book Contest.
The record book contest was an interested and worthwhile experience. We were able to meet with other teachers and learn more about programs from across the state and other students SAE projects. By helping to score the SAE books I think I will better be able to help prepare students in the future.
Plan for Week 4
Monday- Leadership- Committee Meetings as a group for FFA Week - Where are we at?
Animal Science- Calf Necropsy on a twin bull calf/ connecting differences between monogastric/ ruminate animals
AFNR- 4.3.1 The Story of Water
Landscape- Microscopes/ What are the functions of a plant?
SAE- What is a performance review? / Set up Proficiency Applications
- SMART goals, advantages/ disadvantages our SAE's have
Tuesday- Leadership- What are the different communication types- styles of communication/ FFA Week Communication Assignment
Animal Science- 5.3.1 Energy in Feed
AFNR- 4.3.2 Running Water
Landscape- What are the functions of roots?
SAE- What skills, competencies and knowledge do you possess?
Wednesday- Leadership- What are the different communication types- 5 communication levels/ FFA Week Communication Assignment
Animal Science- 5.3.2 What's in it for me?
AFNR- 4.3.3
Landscape- What are the functions of roots- continued.
SAE- What's in stock?
Thursday- Leadership- FFA Week Communication Assignment
Animal Science- 5.3.3 It's all on the label
AFNR- 4.3.4 Testing for Quality
Landscape- What chemical reaction - photosynthesis?
SAE- What is a liability?
Friday-
Leadership- FFA Week Communication Assignment/ FFA Week Prep
Animal Science- 5.3 Section Wrap Up
AFNR- Finishing 4.3.4
Landscape- Can I be a landscape designer?
SAE- What's my profit?
Friday, January 31, 2014
Week 2 - Jan 27- 31
Good Afternoon,
Monday- Today I taught by first AFNR class/ lab. It was very excited because I was able to add some additional items for interest approaches and to help students better understand the content. The class went really well as I had them first each introduce themselves. I was going through the short power point and for some reason the projector stopped working. Luckily I was almost done but I think i will plan on reviewing the last few slides in the future. My landscape class reviewed the final elements of design. After Friday I combined the lesson to give it more content. This worked out well because I had a little more to cover but then also had enough for the students to review in an e-moment.
Tuesday- Today Cumberland Valley had a 2 hour delay due to the cold temperatures, this decreased class time to 26 minutes. With the shortened class time it is very challenging to accomplish everything that was originally intended. In my AFNR lab, I decided to cut an activity out and move it over to tomorrow in order to allow students enough time to get through the majority of their lab activity. I still had to shorten the lab by only asking the students to work through 2 examples and then do the remaining 3 tomorrow. This worked well but I wish I didn't shorten it so much because some students ended up finishing five minutes early. In our co-hort meeting I was able to brainstorm some ideas for students who do finish early to be able to work on until class is finished. I intend to talked to Darla about what I can effectively do with this class. I'm also struggling with this class to follow directions, when I give the directions its hard to keep their attention and then they are not fulling completing the lab activity in the case handout. I think tomorrow I will prepare a short quiz to hold students accountable for reading directions.
In landscaping, I had students working on an area/ perimeter worksheet. I expected the students to breeze through the worksheet to be able to move on to working on their dream houses however I had lots of questions on the actual math activities. I didn't help the matter by ending up confusing students on solving for perimeter in problems that contained circles. I will start tomorrow off by reviewing the answers since we didn't get completely through it as we as reviewing how to complete circle problems and correctly solve for perimeter.
After school four students who are interested in the Livestock Judging CDE held their first practice. I worked with Romberger to introduce to them how to take notes, what format to use and the basics of decision making. We demonstrated this by having the students judge a class of pens and defend their decisions on why they placed them they way they did. This worked out really well to help them figure out how to use the note taking system and figure out what should be written where. We assigned them the homework to go home and begin to learn the parts and terms related to steers.
Wednesday-
My AFNR class went okay today. Most of the students got through everything and were working up to the bell. I had them take a quiz before they started on directions, the students were having issues reading and deciphering the graph provided. I helped many students with hints for the quiz because I mainly wanted to stress the importance of reading the directions and following the steps.
The landscape class went well today, I feel the students are caught up however I still feel like I don't make it through the content that I plan to. I don't even think it is complex content but I'm not able to get through it with them. I keep mixing up the lesson and giving them short group work assignments and I think that might be the hang up. Also bellwork always takes so long because the students don't come into until the bell rings. .
Thursday-
This was an interesting day as I am seeing students beginning to push more behavior as they become more comfortable with me. Immediately in my AFNR class as I was trying to have them read the lab procedures and complete a question for bell work I was struggling to get a group of boys to quiet down and do their assigned task. After redirecting them once I ended up having one of them move seats to the front of the room. I sent students who were completed to the lab to begins setting up and asked those who I knew hadn't yet completed the bell work to stay to finish it. In lab this student is grouped with the same group of students so I switched him to a different group. At first I was going to have a student swap with him but then I didn't want to look like I was punishing her, so I just added him to a group of 2. This class will be switching seats and being assigned new lab partners next week in efforts to keep everyone on task. Looking back I think this was the right decision because I need to really establish authority with them and demonstrate my expectations.
My landscape class went faster today as I set a timer to help keep myself and students on track to complete small assignments. This seemed to work out well on the Ipad. I am glad to see students doing what I was hoping would occur with the Dream House project as they are putting time and thought into it, making it creative. Some students had some really interesting ideas.
Friday-
In the AFNR class today we decided to mix up the power point by assigning groups to search for the information and then presenting the information to the class. It went pretty well as far as allowing students time to search for the information. To help students learn the information after reporting the notes we went to the lab and did an edible food activity to reestablish the soil horizons with sugar cookies, crushed cookies, chocolate pudding and butterscotch chips. As far as behavior issues today, I didn't have too much trouble with that group of boys but there was a lot of talking. Despite the talking they still get their work done so I will just continue to try to keep them focused and find additional tasks to complete. I am sincerely struggling though with two students whom don't have IEPs but work extremely slow and don't process information as as quickly. They usually are behind the rest of the students.
Landscaping went well. I asked students to look up edible plants to present to the class. I ended up letting them look up their plants but having to wait until the end to present because some students are done when at the same time other students' computers haven't even loaded. Either way it worked well at the end and served as a good wrap up.
Plan for Week 2
Monday- students off/ teacher in-service
Tuesday- Landscape-Can you eat plants?
1) Discuss with students what plants are edible and uses
2) students will work on their landscaping project.
Leadership- Welcome
1) Procedures, Expectations, Consequences
2) Bell Work papers
3) Remaining time to work on FFA Week Activities
SAE- Welcome/ Where are we at with SAE book completion?
1) Procedures, Bell Work Papers
2) Finish Record Books!
AFNR- 4.2.3
1) lab assignment
Wednesday- Landscape-Can you landscape with seasonings?
1) Review Powerpoint
2) Brainstorm creative herb designs.
3) Work on dream house design.
Leadership- Communications, what does it matter?
1) Content- why is communication important?
2) Ag issue presentation
SAE- Record Book Questions/ Resources needed
1) Bellwork
2) Record Books
AFNR- "mini- unit" quiz & 4.3.1
1) Check for understanding
2) Power Point for 4.3.1
Thursday- Landscape-When is it best to landscape?
1) Review content
2) planting bulbs
3) work on landscapes
Leadership- Isn't it just speaking in public?
1) Background to preparing a speech/ Hunger banquet
SAE- How has your SAE benefited you?
1) Bell Work
2) Hunger Banquet
AFNR- 4.3.1.
1) Classroom Activity
Friday- Sub in (Record Book Contest)
Landscape- Where are our landscapes at?
1) Work day, work on landscape designs
Leadership- Work Day
1) Work on FFA Week Activities, Hunger Banquet
SAE- Where do you see your SAE going in the future?
1) Finalize 2013 books
2) Work on FFA Week Activities
AFNR- 4.3.2
1) Lab Activity
Monday- Today I taught by first AFNR class/ lab. It was very excited because I was able to add some additional items for interest approaches and to help students better understand the content. The class went really well as I had them first each introduce themselves. I was going through the short power point and for some reason the projector stopped working. Luckily I was almost done but I think i will plan on reviewing the last few slides in the future. My landscape class reviewed the final elements of design. After Friday I combined the lesson to give it more content. This worked out well because I had a little more to cover but then also had enough for the students to review in an e-moment.
Tuesday- Today Cumberland Valley had a 2 hour delay due to the cold temperatures, this decreased class time to 26 minutes. With the shortened class time it is very challenging to accomplish everything that was originally intended. In my AFNR lab, I decided to cut an activity out and move it over to tomorrow in order to allow students enough time to get through the majority of their lab activity. I still had to shorten the lab by only asking the students to work through 2 examples and then do the remaining 3 tomorrow. This worked well but I wish I didn't shorten it so much because some students ended up finishing five minutes early. In our co-hort meeting I was able to brainstorm some ideas for students who do finish early to be able to work on until class is finished. I intend to talked to Darla about what I can effectively do with this class. I'm also struggling with this class to follow directions, when I give the directions its hard to keep their attention and then they are not fulling completing the lab activity in the case handout. I think tomorrow I will prepare a short quiz to hold students accountable for reading directions.
In landscaping, I had students working on an area/ perimeter worksheet. I expected the students to breeze through the worksheet to be able to move on to working on their dream houses however I had lots of questions on the actual math activities. I didn't help the matter by ending up confusing students on solving for perimeter in problems that contained circles. I will start tomorrow off by reviewing the answers since we didn't get completely through it as we as reviewing how to complete circle problems and correctly solve for perimeter.
After school four students who are interested in the Livestock Judging CDE held their first practice. I worked with Romberger to introduce to them how to take notes, what format to use and the basics of decision making. We demonstrated this by having the students judge a class of pens and defend their decisions on why they placed them they way they did. This worked out really well to help them figure out how to use the note taking system and figure out what should be written where. We assigned them the homework to go home and begin to learn the parts and terms related to steers.
Wednesday-
My AFNR class went okay today. Most of the students got through everything and were working up to the bell. I had them take a quiz before they started on directions, the students were having issues reading and deciphering the graph provided. I helped many students with hints for the quiz because I mainly wanted to stress the importance of reading the directions and following the steps.
The landscape class went well today, I feel the students are caught up however I still feel like I don't make it through the content that I plan to. I don't even think it is complex content but I'm not able to get through it with them. I keep mixing up the lesson and giving them short group work assignments and I think that might be the hang up. Also bellwork always takes so long because the students don't come into until the bell rings. .
Thursday-
This was an interesting day as I am seeing students beginning to push more behavior as they become more comfortable with me. Immediately in my AFNR class as I was trying to have them read the lab procedures and complete a question for bell work I was struggling to get a group of boys to quiet down and do their assigned task. After redirecting them once I ended up having one of them move seats to the front of the room. I sent students who were completed to the lab to begins setting up and asked those who I knew hadn't yet completed the bell work to stay to finish it. In lab this student is grouped with the same group of students so I switched him to a different group. At first I was going to have a student swap with him but then I didn't want to look like I was punishing her, so I just added him to a group of 2. This class will be switching seats and being assigned new lab partners next week in efforts to keep everyone on task. Looking back I think this was the right decision because I need to really establish authority with them and demonstrate my expectations.
My landscape class went faster today as I set a timer to help keep myself and students on track to complete small assignments. This seemed to work out well on the Ipad. I am glad to see students doing what I was hoping would occur with the Dream House project as they are putting time and thought into it, making it creative. Some students had some really interesting ideas.
Friday-
In the AFNR class today we decided to mix up the power point by assigning groups to search for the information and then presenting the information to the class. It went pretty well as far as allowing students time to search for the information. To help students learn the information after reporting the notes we went to the lab and did an edible food activity to reestablish the soil horizons with sugar cookies, crushed cookies, chocolate pudding and butterscotch chips. As far as behavior issues today, I didn't have too much trouble with that group of boys but there was a lot of talking. Despite the talking they still get their work done so I will just continue to try to keep them focused and find additional tasks to complete. I am sincerely struggling though with two students whom don't have IEPs but work extremely slow and don't process information as as quickly. They usually are behind the rest of the students.
Landscaping went well. I asked students to look up edible plants to present to the class. I ended up letting them look up their plants but having to wait until the end to present because some students are done when at the same time other students' computers haven't even loaded. Either way it worked well at the end and served as a good wrap up.
Plan for Week 2
Monday- students off/ teacher in-service
Tuesday- Landscape-Can you eat plants?
1) Discuss with students what plants are edible and uses
2) students will work on their landscaping project.
Leadership- Welcome
1) Procedures, Expectations, Consequences
2) Bell Work papers
3) Remaining time to work on FFA Week Activities
SAE- Welcome/ Where are we at with SAE book completion?
1) Procedures, Bell Work Papers
2) Finish Record Books!
AFNR- 4.2.3
1) lab assignment
Wednesday- Landscape-Can you landscape with seasonings?
1) Review Powerpoint
2) Brainstorm creative herb designs.
3) Work on dream house design.
Leadership- Communications, what does it matter?
1) Content- why is communication important?
2) Ag issue presentation
SAE- Record Book Questions/ Resources needed
1) Bellwork
2) Record Books
AFNR- "mini- unit" quiz & 4.3.1
1) Check for understanding
2) Power Point for 4.3.1
Thursday- Landscape-When is it best to landscape?
1) Review content
2) planting bulbs
3) work on landscapes
Leadership- Isn't it just speaking in public?
1) Background to preparing a speech/ Hunger banquet
SAE- How has your SAE benefited you?
1) Bell Work
2) Hunger Banquet
AFNR- 4.3.1.
1) Classroom Activity
Friday- Sub in (Record Book Contest)
Landscape- Where are our landscapes at?
1) Work day, work on landscape designs
Leadership- Work Day
1) Work on FFA Week Activities, Hunger Banquet
SAE- Where do you see your SAE going in the future?
1) Finalize 2013 books
2) Work on FFA Week Activities
AFNR- 4.3.2
1) Lab Activity
Friday, January 24, 2014
Week 1 Jan 21- Jan 24
Good Afternoon,
Monday- Off/ MLK Day
Tuesday- Snow Day
Wednesday-
Today was my first day of my student teacher internship. I was able to get a feel for where the classes are at in their lessons as they prepare to end the semester tomorrow. Friday will start new classes so only a few of the courses that I will be teaching was I able to fully observe.
Thursday-
Class observations have continued today. I am working on continuing planning for classes once I take them over. Through observations I have seen classroom management issues that I will need to continue to address when teaching.
Friday-
Taught my landscaping class today. It went okay but I should have made my powerpoint include all of the elements of design. So for Monday I intend on changing my plans to finish the entire section.
Plan for Week 2
Monday- Landscape- Lesson 2, What elements create movement in the design?
1) Students will learn content from examples provided in powerpoint, as they complete guided notes.
2) Students will practice and learn terms through e-moment story telling.
Extra- Pass out rubric and explain Dream House Project
AFNR- 4.2.1.
1) Students will be introduced to what soils is through Interest Approach of soil in a mason jar example of soil separation, obtained from the Georgia Ag Ed site.
2) Power Point/ Guided Notes
3) students will examine and determine what the different components of soil look like.
Tuesday- Landscape- Lesson 4, How do you draw landscapes?
1) Discuss local home values and sizes.
2) Determine area of shapes, complete worksheet
3) Measuring to scale, how to use landscape stencils
4) Review Rubric & Begin landscape designs
AFNR- 4.2.1
1) lab assignment
Wednesday- Landscape- How do you determine plant needs?
1) Reviewing Seed packets & info provided
2) Review Vocab
3) Monocot & Dicot activity
4) Creating Plant Key for design
AFNR- 4.2.2
1) Work in partners to complete activity 4.2.2 work sheet
Thursday- Landscape- What is hardscaping?
1) What is hardscaping?, What considerations need to be taken?
2) Creative idea activity/ Presentation
3) Work on design
AFNR- 4.2.3
1) Powerpoint
2) lab activity- profiling soil
Friday- Landscape- What are different plant forms?
1) PPT on from of trees & leaves
2) Form Design Activity
3) Work on design
AFNR- "mini- unit" quiz & 4.3.1
1) Check for understanding
2) Careers/ Education relating to Soils
3) Power Point for 4.3.1
Monday- Off/ MLK Day
Tuesday- Snow Day
Wednesday-
Today was my first day of my student teacher internship. I was able to get a feel for where the classes are at in their lessons as they prepare to end the semester tomorrow. Friday will start new classes so only a few of the courses that I will be teaching was I able to fully observe.
Thursday-
Class observations have continued today. I am working on continuing planning for classes once I take them over. Through observations I have seen classroom management issues that I will need to continue to address when teaching.
Friday-
Taught my landscaping class today. It went okay but I should have made my powerpoint include all of the elements of design. So for Monday I intend on changing my plans to finish the entire section.
Plan for Week 2
Monday- Landscape- Lesson 2, What elements create movement in the design?
1) Students will learn content from examples provided in powerpoint, as they complete guided notes.
2) Students will practice and learn terms through e-moment story telling.
Extra- Pass out rubric and explain Dream House Project
AFNR- 4.2.1.
1) Students will be introduced to what soils is through Interest Approach of soil in a mason jar example of soil separation, obtained from the Georgia Ag Ed site.
2) Power Point/ Guided Notes
3) students will examine and determine what the different components of soil look like.
Tuesday- Landscape- Lesson 4, How do you draw landscapes?
1) Discuss local home values and sizes.
2) Determine area of shapes, complete worksheet
3) Measuring to scale, how to use landscape stencils
4) Review Rubric & Begin landscape designs
AFNR- 4.2.1
1) lab assignment
Wednesday- Landscape- How do you determine plant needs?
1) Reviewing Seed packets & info provided
2) Review Vocab
3) Monocot & Dicot activity
4) Creating Plant Key for design
AFNR- 4.2.2
1) Work in partners to complete activity 4.2.2 work sheet
Thursday- Landscape- What is hardscaping?
1) What is hardscaping?, What considerations need to be taken?
2) Creative idea activity/ Presentation
3) Work on design
AFNR- 4.2.3
1) Powerpoint
2) lab activity- profiling soil
Friday- Landscape- What are different plant forms?
1) PPT on from of trees & leaves
2) Form Design Activity
3) Work on design
AFNR- "mini- unit" quiz & 4.3.1
1) Check for understanding
2) Careers/ Education relating to Soils
3) Power Point for 4.3.1
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)