Owl Pellets: Tips For Ag Teachers

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

Episodes

  • Teach Grand Challenges: The Urban Heat Island Effect

    16/06/2023 Duration: 11min

    Grand challenge in this episode: The Urban Heat Island Effect About the Challenge The purpose of this project is to leverage a preexisting online professional development resource and its large following of SBA educators to create a more effective model of professional development where teachers engage in immersive experiences in agriculture, capture those experiences via the formats already used by Owl Pellets, and share them with their peers to develop an ever-growing community of practice around grand agricultural challenges founds within teachers’ local communities and FANH careers. One of the primary goals of this project is to re-engage SBA educators in the challenges, technology, and work of their local agricultural community – making grand challenges local. Visit the Teach Grand Challenges website. About the Guest Ashlee Gardner was born and raised in the great state of Texas, where she currently resides in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. She earned a Master of Science in Biology from the University of Te

  • Teach Grand Challenges: Invasive Species - The Ultimate Challenger

    09/06/2023 Duration: 16min

    Grand challenge in this episode: Invasive Species - The Ultimate Challenger About the Challenge The purpose of this project is to leverage a preexisting online professional development resource and its large following of SBA educators to create a more effective model of professional development where teachers engage in immersive experiences in agriculture, capture those experiences via the formats already used by Owl Pellets, and share them with their peers to develop an ever-growing community of practice around grand agricultural challenges founds within teachers’ local communities and FANH careers. One of the primary goals of this project is to re-engage SBA educators in the challenges, technology, and work of their local agricultural community – making grand challenges local. Visit the Teach Grand Challenges website. About the Guest Melanie Berndtson is a 15 year Agriscience teacher from Wellsboro, Pennsylvania.  She teaches in a single teacher department with courses including animal science, plant scienc

  • Teach Grand Challenges: Sustaining Agriculture for Today and Tomorrow

    20/05/2023 Duration: 12min

    Grand challenge in this episode: Investigating Sustainable Practices in Agriculture, Food and the Environment About the Challenge The purpose of this project is to leverage a preexisting online professional development resource and its large following of SBA educators to create a more effective model of professional development where teachers engage in immersive experiences in agriculture, capture those experiences via the formats already used by Owl Pellets, and share them with their peers to develop an ever-growing community of practice around grand agricultural challenges founds within teachers’ local communities and FANH careers. One of the primary goals of this project is to re-engage SBA educators in the challenges, technology, and work of their local agricultural community – making grand challenges local. Visit the Teach Grand Challenges website. About the Guest Joe Ramstad grew up in Forest Lake, Minnesota just north of the Twin Cities metro without any farm or direct agricultural experiences but took

  • Teach Grand Challenges: Food Banks - Help take a bite out of hunger

    13/05/2023 Duration: 10min

    Grand challenge in this episode: Food Banks About the Challenge The purpose of this project is to leverage a preexisting online professional development resource and its large following of SBA educators to create a more effective model of professional development where teachers engage in immersive experiences in agriculture, capture those experiences via the formats already used by Owl Pellets, and share them with their peers to develop an ever-growing community of practice around grand agricultural challenges founds within teachers’ local communities and FANH careers. One of the primary goals of this project is to re-engage SBA educators in the challenges, technology, and work of their local agricultural community – making grand challenges local. Visit the Teach Grand Challenges website. About the Guest Lindsey Garner completed a Bachelor of Science from Michigan State University in Environmental Studies and Agriscience in 2015 and then completed a Master of Arts Degree from Michigan State University in Agri

  • Teach Grand Challenges: Solving the Agriculture Labor Shortage

    05/05/2023 Duration: 12min

    Grand challenge in this episode: Solving the Agriculture Labor Shortage About the Challenge The purpose of this project is to leverage a preexisting online professional development resource and its large following of SBA educators to create a more effective model of professional development where teachers engage in immersive experiences in agriculture, capture those experiences via the formats already used by Owl Pellets, and share them with their peers to develop an ever-growing community of practice around grand agricultural challenges founds within teachers’ local communities and FANH careers. One of the primary goals of this project is to re-engage SBA educators in the challenges, technology, and work of their local agricultural community – making grand challenges local. Visit the Teach Grand Challenges website. About the Guests Ethan Dado is a fourth year agriculture, food, and natural resources (AFNR) educator and FFA advisor in Mankato, MN. Dado’s first year of teaching was also the recreation of the M

  • Teach Grand Challenges: Cattle Awareness and Food Inequity

    28/04/2023 Duration: 21min

    Grand challenges in this episode: Beef Cattle Awareness and Food Inequity About the Challenge The purpose of this project is to leverage a preexisting online professional development resource and its large following of SBA educators to create a more effective model of professional development where teachers engage in immersive experiences in agriculture, capture those experiences via the formats already used by Owl Pellets, and share them with their peers to develop an ever-growing community of practice around grand agricultural challenges founds within teachers’ local communities and FANH careers. One of the primary goals of this project is to re-engage SBA educators in the challenges, technology, and work of their local agricultural community – making grand challenges local. Visit the Teach Grand Challenges website. About the Guests Lacie Darnell is an agricultural education teacher at Norwich High School in Norwich, Kansas. Lacie has been an agricultural educator for the last eight years, with experience i

  • How People Learn Series: Learning Across the Lifespan

    21/04/2023 Duration: 22min

    The Owl Pellets crew chats about learning across the lifespan in the final episode of the How People Learn series.

  • How People Learn Series: Motivation

    14/04/2023 Duration: 22min

    The Owl Pellets crew discusses a new take of motivation in this episode of the How People Learn series.

  • Using a Metacognitive Strategy

    07/04/2023 Duration: 24min

    In this episode, we hear from Deer Park High School agriculture teacher Savannah Schroeder and Texas A&M's Peng Lu and Matt Baker about a study using eye-tracking technology to learn about the use of metacognitive strategy and reading. SQ5R (Scan, Question, Read, Respond, Recite, Record, Review) is a strategy to support reading comprehension It works by supporting information transfer from short term memory to long term memory Patience is key. Learning doesn’t happen by magic bullets and quick fixes. Give it time!

  • Transformative Learning

    31/03/2023 Duration: 33min

    In this episode, Oklahoma State's Courtney Brown and Lauren Cline join the Owl Pellets crew to discuss shifting the conversation about what diversity brings to agriculture. Students left a course about African Americans in agriculture feeling empowered, able to connect, knowledgeable, ready to engage in hard conversations, and curious Nervous about entering this conversation? Start with your own education! Check out the Legacy of the New Farmers of America or Crucial Conversations. Think about how you can shift your perspective rather than leaning in closer to what you already know to learn more. Much of the conversation about what diversity brings to agriculture focuses on efficiency and production. Let’s shift the conversation to value the people and their human dignity.

  • Adjusting, Appeasing, and Rearranging

    25/03/2023 Duration: 28min

    In this episode, the Owl Pellets crew chats with Oregon State's Dr. Haley Traini about the managing expectations and how ag. teachers do it all. Teachers often look successful on the outside, but aren’t satisfied on the inside as they try to meet real and perceived expectations. There is real challenge in trying to sift through the available opportunities without engaging in everything. Rethinking expectations happens at every level; have a conversation with someone who can work with you to move the needle today.

  • How People Learn Series: Memory

    17/03/2023 Duration: 21min

    The Owl Pellets crew discusses memory, specifically the systems and distinct processes associated with memory that contribute to learning.

  • Student Achievement in Ag. & Science Concepts

    10/03/2023 Duration: 26min

    In this episode, Virginia Tech's Natalie Ferand shares "illuminating" information about the integration of science concepts in our teaching. Highlights include: There are three types of teachers as we think about integrating science concepts: vocational purists, illumination attempters, and science illuminators. You might be one or the other depending on what you’re teaching. Science illuminators aren’t necessarily looking to change their curriculum. They work to highlight a key science (or math or English) concept in what they’re already teaching. Great curriculum is a team effort and takes a ton of time. Check out STEM It Up as a great example to boost your Floriculture program.

  • Openness & Preparedness for Ag. Technology

    03/03/2023 Duration: 26min

    Stephen McBride (Purdue) joins the crew to discuss openness & preparedness for ag. technology. Highlights include: Students are open to new agricultural technologies, but not necessarily prepared to use them Technology opens career opportunities for students across the food chain, from production to purchase Community members and manufacturers are great resources to support learning new technologies. No need to learn them all on your own!

  • Authenticity

    24/02/2023 Duration: 25min

    Dr. Jason McKibben (Auburn University) discusses authenticity in learning, projects, and project-based learning.

  • How People Learn Series: The Developing Brain

    17/02/2023 Duration: 22min

    The Owl Pellets crew discusses the developing brain and what that means for facilitating learning.

  • Engaging in Agriscience Research SAEs

    03/02/2023 Duration: 25min

    In this episode, we hear from North Dakota State University assistant professor Dr. Brooke Thiel on how agriculture teachers implement and engage in agriscience research in the classroom.

  • Implementing CASE

    27/01/2023 Duration: 24min

    Amber Rice (University of Arizona) and Taylor Bird (Arizona Ag. Teacher) share research findings on the implementation of CASE curriculum.

  • How People Learn Series: Models

    20/01/2023 Duration: 23min

    The Owl Pellets Crew is back! In this episode, the crew discusses how models can be used for learning.

  • How People Learn Series: Learning Types

    16/12/2022 Duration: 24min

    The Owl Pellets crew continue the discussion on "how people learn" with learning types.

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