Friday, June 16, 2017

Review of "A Day in the Life of An AG Teacher Blog"

A Day in the Life of An Ag Teacher, is a blog focusing on the experiences of agriculture teachers in the United States.  The blog is sponsored by National Association of Agricultural Educators.  There are multiple authors from around the United States represented on this blog. As seen on the map, you can see the dispersal of the  blog authors. This provides a different perspective with each blog, of different issues and solutions in agriculture education around the world.  

It is difficult to find a sizable number of quality agriculture education based blogs.  I often wonder if that is attributed to the perception of agriculture teachers being “older men who do not like computers.” I wonder if this stereotype plays into the reality as to why there are not a significant amount of agriculture teacher blogs.  I also wonder if the lack of blogs and online resources for agriculture education aids in providing misconceptions about agriculture education being “in the past” compared to other subject areas.  

As you can see in the image here, the blog has a vast variety of information. It provides us with new resources, lesson plans, and experiences of teachers around the united states. The blog gives specific details to what works in different areas.   The blog also gives us a platform to find curriculum guidelines.  Curriculum standards are similar across all states, so we can easily pull lesson plans to guide our thought processes.  As well as make changes in the classroom quickly and effectively as plans can change on the fly every day.  

This was a fun take away from one of the blog posts.  It discussed comfort and distractions in a classroom.  This teacher had a fun creative way to handle cell phone usage in the classroom.  




As teachers we all look for sources of information.  Blogs are a creative way for us to share information.  A Day in the Life of an Ag Teacher, is a good quality ag teacher blog.  I would highly recommend this blog to anyone in the agriculture education filed.  

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