Hay Baylor

      This week the #psuaged23 cohort took a deeper dive into what interest approaches are in our lessons, and how we can successfully develop and deliver them in a way that is relevant to the content, and engages our student's curiosity. We were asked to come to our lab section on Wednesday with a lesson we felt we had developed a good interest approach for, and we would be presenting those interest approaches to our peers.     I chose a lesson plan that I had written for my introductory lesson to my unit on Arc Welding, in which I would lay out some images for students to pair up and go around the room and analyze for two things:                                             1) What the image was?                                  ...

      This week during our AEE 412 lab, we got to take a tour of the Palmer Museum of Art to learn a little bit more about the facilitation of field trips and experiential learning opportunities for our students. We went through the tour as if we were there to learn about the art and divulge into some of the pieces, however, we also got to peek behind the curtain and ask our guides a little bit about the different teaching styles they use when leading a tour.      For example, when viewing the first piece, they used a lecturing technique to give us lots of information about the piece, and they also connected some of the information to agriculture, because they knew our background and understood the audience they were speaking to. In another portion of the tour, we got to experience some inquiry-based techniques in which the students got to lead the discussion somewhat because we got to build off of our prior knowledge and let the tour guide know what the pi...

       At the start of AEE 412, the PSU Ag Ed 2023 cohort began their unit planning journey by bringing a draft of our first unit plan to the class. We quickly learned that our first unit plans were not exactly perfect, not even close to being completely honest. I know that when I handed over my first draft of my Arc Welding/Oxy-Fuel unit plan, there would be comments and critiques from my peers, which was a good thing because it meant that I got to grow! It is easy to get stuck in the mindset of, "oh no I don't want my peers to think my unit plan isn't good", but ultimately, we need the support of our peers in order to be as successful as we can.      I really struggled with coming up with my daily objectives in my unit pan for each of my lessons within the unit, but thankfully, after the first round of peer reviews, my peers were able to give me some tips that helped them, and it really helped give me some ideas and develop those objectives a bit eas...

       This week in #AEE412 lab, the cohort got to test their first-day lesson planning skills by formulating a lesson plan and then performing a 10-minute snapshot of our lesson in our lab section. I decided to develop my lesson plan first, and then I would choose the lesson section I wanted to try out. I landed on performing an activity that I enjoyed when I was in high school, which was a quick nametag activity that asked students to come up with 2 truths and 1 lie about themselves. After this, I had each student go around and share their statements, and the rest of the class would try and decipher which statement is a lie. This worked pretty well, and it gave the students and me some information about each of the students in the class. This activity then led to my discussion about the classroom expectations that I have for the students in my class.      The expectations that I established with the class were the following:      ...