Science, Technology, Engineering and Math: It all STEMsfrom Agriculture

摘要

As an agriculture teacher and an FFA advisor, one's day is rarely the same as the next. Agriculture teachers chauffeur students to and from competitions on majestic public-school buses, draft and implement schematics for landscapes around the school and community, help develop agriscience projects for students to test their hypothesis, sabotage engines at 5:30 AM so small engines classes can troubleshoot them, manage the business that is the greenhouse, organize fairs for elementary children to learnmore about agriculture and where their food comes from, create boutonnieres and corsages for prom, oversee drafting and constructing of a storage building for Habitat for Humanity, help students calculate how many cubic yards of concrete it took to build the sidewalk outside your classroom, form enthusiastic freshmen into polished public speakers or even counsel students on personal problems, future goals and life ambitions. Of all these things, the most important thing we do on a daily basis is teaching students how to be successful in a world where an educated mind is a prerequisite to success.