Week 1 of 15: Moving to the Other Side of the Desk
#PSUAgEd23 is ready for senior year! Well...the moment we have all been waiting for has finally arrived, my first day of senior year! The year kicked off at 8 am Monday mor ning with AEE 412: Methods of Teaching Agriculture. As we worked through class, I thought abo ut how excited I am to become an agriculture educator and use my knowledge to teach my students in the spring. Good thing I ha ve all semester to learn and grow before I actually start to start walking the walk, right? Well, senior year at Penn State is not for backyard baseball, we’re in the big league s now ! We dove right in, and I ended up teach ing within 48 hours of that moment. The task at hand wa s to teach the members of my AEE 412 lab group how to create an origami butterfly , but the catch was that I could not touch or fold the learner’s paper in any way. When I got origami as my topic, I was not stressed too much about how I would go about teaching. I have done...