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How Professional Development leads to the Three Circle Model


This spring I attended both Professional Development opportunities at ACES and SLLC.  I enjoyed all of the opportunities both gave but I am going to focus this blog on the ACES Professional Development because of something really cool that happened as well.

At ACES we got to hear from the Chesapeake Bay Foundation where we learned about ways to teach Watersheds to students.  I enjoyed all the different activities because one of the topics I haven't taught while student teaching is Natural Resources and so getting some cool ways to talk about water was super useful. I especially liked how some of the activities were using different tools which made me sit there and think how some of these tools cost more than others but still led to the same results. It made me realize how there isn't one way to teach a lesson.  I hope that during the summer I'll have a chance to change up some of my lessons to see what ways I can change a lesson.



But the best thing that came out of the professional development was a tool for in classroom instruction, a growing leaders event, and a possible supervised agriculture experience for students in natural resources.  With my experience I got a chance to have a speaker come and talk to students about the Chesapeake Bay.  This week, a dozen students are going to do a community service project and plant trees in a watershed.  One top of that there is a possible high school summer learning experience which could be a natural resource SAE.

Students getting the chance to plant trees in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
What I learned the most with this PD is that sometimes opportunities open up and as teachers it all about what doors we open for students.  I am excited how this idea of learning more will now lead to students gaining experience in fields they are interested in. That is the best part about being a teacher and I can't wait to try some other PD later in my career.

To Be Continued . . .

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  1. Tiffany MoreyApril 19, 2018 at 7:50 PM

    George, thank you for finding the purpose in your PD experiences and for putting them to good use for both yourself and your students. Really like how you are turning your experience with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation into a valuable service learning experience for your students!

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