STEM Concepts in My Agriculture Classroom: Opinions and Suggestions on STEM and its Incorporation

摘要

TSTBAAFE! If you haven't figured it out by now, the random string of letters obviouslystands for "there seems to be an acronym for everything." In education we are, or should be, used to acronyms in our daily lives. We should also be used to an ever changing challenge within education. There is constantly a "next big thing" in our world and we must continually adapt to meet whatever the requirements are for the aformentioned next big thing. While I constantly attend meetings or training pertaining to each next big thing to know how the system is supposed to work, I was extremely excitedfor the announcement of the push for 21st Century Skills and the support of STEM concepts in the classroom. My excitement comes from the aspect that agriculture education already does all of these things. We teach these concepts through our curriculum and reinforce them with the National FFA Organization. Our students/, in my opinion, are exposed to all of these on any given day as a student enrolled in agriculture education classes.