I previously wrote about the importance of having a growth mindset. While I have always believed in its importance this student experience has really pushed me to live it. Every day I was looking for new ways to better myself as an educator, one of which was growing my content knowledge. I learned something new in as far as content knowledge everyday right along with my students. I grew most in areas that I was terrified in the beginning to teach and I still found areas to grow in content that I felt like I knew my whole life. One area in which I didn't teach this go around but felt that I needed to know a little bit more about was environmental science. What better way to learn about environmental science than to head to the Columbia County Agriculture Conference. During my time at the conference I learned valuable knowledge about improving soil health and managing pests in field crops, along with many valuable resources. Something I didn't think about was the valuable conne...
For our second SAE visit we headed to see Alyssa Hargraves. Alyssa is a senior at Central Columbia and an active FFA member. Alyssa is an avid hunter and fisherman. She truly loves all things outdoors. Alyssa received her Keystone degree this years through keeping SAE records on her work with developing food plots and running a deer management program. Alyssa hopes to continue her love for the outdoors as a Wildlife Biologist, she was also recent accepted into Penn State! Due to the "off season" for Alyssa's SAE we chose to meet at Keller's Taxidermy. We discussed her SAE and future goals as we scored her buck from last fall for the Buck Pool put in by the agriculture program at Central Columbia. I was impressed by Alyssa's buck harvest this year and it was evident that she has put much time into her deer management program. It was fitting for us to meet at Keller's as she gets her deer mounted there each year. Alyssa shared that she puts in a lot of work ov...
There is a serious science behind mastering classroom management and student behavior. I often over looked all of the small steps that an educator put into each class period to ensure students were given the very best learning environment. If the last several weeks have taught me anything there is so much more to managing a classroom than just focusing on strategies to managing misbehavior, it's important to be well prepared before mishavior has a chance to occur. The list of useful classroom management strategies is nearly endless, as there is always a way to ensure that a class is running efficiently. Here are a few management strategies I find to be truly beneficial and some that I have been able to utilize thus far in my journey to becoming an educator. Knowing a student as a person: the famous quote by Theodore Roosevelt describes this one best, "No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care." Building relationships with students is extremely i...
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