From Green Blazers To Blue Corduroys

Question: does the fire alarming going off during the South Central Regional PAAE meaning mean stuff was getting done or something else? The big lesson I learned from PAAE is how hard hosting can be for a regional meeting.  One thing I wouldn't have thought about: food. Like make sure you can feed a small army at a PAAE spring regional event because the State Officers will also be conducting a State Officer Orientation Meeting with FFA Members and talking about the process of becoming a state officer. Catering is the way to go.  Also charge a fee for students and advisors so you break even on the number that will attend. Another cool thing I learned is how to schedule rooms after hours.  This is important so that janitors know you are still in the building.  It will be especially useful when considering hosting events during the summer. The big thing I also learned having this experience is that as a young teacher this could be something that though...

Running my First FFA Trip: Mr. Dietrich is in Charge at SLLC During Week Twelve Student Teaching Day 60: Weekly Reflection Objectives of the blog: Reflect on this weeks experience This week was a little intense. Here was the run down: Sunday - Tuesday: SLLC Wednesday: Snow Day Thursday: 2hr delay (taught for a total of 3 hrs.) Friday: Student Teaching In-service So what was my big take away this week?  I would say it was SLLC.  Why? I was given control as to what we were doing while at SLLC.  Originally we had planned that I would be the primary chaperone on the CV Spring Break Trip.  That trip was unfortunately cancelled.  As a result it became my job of planning the minor details of the trip. So what did I do?  I learned the details behind getting things such as school vans, registering school trips, how to get permission forms out, the list is long but it can get done at reasonable times.  A great tip I learned is take a...

The Journey of Student Teaching: Day 36 FFA Reflections: Career Development Practice in a University not Like PSU Essential Question for this week: What is something you learned about CDE Practices this weekend? CV FFA ended their National FFA week by jumpin on a bus and going all the way down to Ms Rombergers undergraduate location of Delaware Vally Universtiy. Here the Delaware Vally Collegiate FFA Alumni Chapter hosted a career development event intense practice. Here students got to work together and practice different CDE competitions such as Livestock judging, vet Sciences, floriculture, diary products evaluation, agricultural Mechanics, food Science, and horse evaluation.  The students got to interact with students from three states as they practiced and learned more about the national level competitions that are typically very similar to the state level ones. What was cool about this trip was how close the students have become to me. Instead of me just...

The Journey of Student Teaching: Day 20 FFA Advisor Reflections: When a Weekend of High School Girl's Theme Songs Helped Give me the Confidence to teach in Seven Classrooms Essential Question for this week: What is something you learned while attending an ACES weekend? My experience in ACES May have been a bunch of years ago, or how it feels as I write this blog but to me the big thing is the impact it has had on me as a teacher. For one I was use to seeing students only in the classroom. For example I have about four students in more than one class. But now I had the opportunity of being in charge of ... 40 students at ACES. That’s right - a whole lot of students. The best part about the trip wasn’t the number of students it was getting to see the students interact with each other like I’d hope. I saw that these kids though there were not a lot of students they got a long and had fun. I found myself laughing at how silly they would act together, or maybe those ...