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=My PD Reflections =

Student Centered Learning- 1-12-10

I think Agriculture Education in itself is very student centered. Many, many questions about a subject turn into an entire lesson about something. One of my Middle School students made the remark one day that she didn't understand why it was called a hammer because it had nothing to do with cows. My response was whoa wait a second we need to talk! The day turned into talking about where different meats and cuts of meat came from. Since I am not limited and don't really have a specific set of curriculum that I have to use in that exploratory class we are going to start a whole section about cuts of meat and where they come from.

My Ag Business class is starting a project where they are going to plan their own farm. They came up with how many acres they wanted and if they are just going to have row crops or livestock or both and how much. We are going to use their own farms that they developed and are going to go through many things that would go into actually operating their farms. There is an overall structure to the project and many things that I will make sure we cover, however they will be free to figure some things out on their own.