Six Named as NAAE Outstanding Agricultural Education Teachers [FFA PULSE]
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NAAE award celebrates the most influential teachers in agricultural education.
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National Agriscience Teacher Ambassador Program
Applications for 2016 National Agriscience Teacher Ambassador Academy are open until February 29, 2016. Click here for details and the application form.
The National Agriscience Teacher Ambassador Academy (NATAA) has over 10 years of successfully cultivating agriscience and inquiry-based learning in agricultural education. The Academy serves to train agriculture teachers on how to enhance the science that is already present in agriculture, as well as develop students as problems solvers and thinkers through the inquiry-based teaching method.
If selected as a National Agriscience Teacher Ambassador, you will be required to attend a national training session. The session is tentatively scheduled to be held in Ankeny, IA at the Iowa FFA Enrichment Center the week of July 18-22, 2016.
Goals for the National Agriscience Teacher Ambassador Academy include:
- Provide teachers with educational resources and inquiry-based teaching skills to implement science-based activities in the classroom for environmental science, food science, sustainability and ag biological sciences.
- Share lesson plans, laboratory exercises and teaching strategies in order to improve the resources available to teaching agriscience.
- Train and influence the next generation and future employees who will advance agricultural sciences to the next level.
Following their training, the Academy’s participants, National Agriscience Teacher Ambassadors, facilitate workshops at the National FFA Convention and NAAE Convention, helping other agriscience teachers learn how to teach more effectively. Ambassadors also conduct workshops at their local, state, and regional conferences.
If you have questions about NATAA, contact Alissa Smith at 1-800-509-0204 or asmith.naae@uky.edu.
