February 23th #TeachAgChat Hosted by PDA Prompts

February 23th, 2017 Teach Ag Chat

Title: Connecting Careers & Curriculum

 

Hosts: PDA (Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture)

Time 8:00 PM EST Time

How: Follow the Twitter Account @TeachAgChat and the Social Media Hashtag #TeachAgChat for more information.

Schedule of Prompts

At 8:00 PM we will begin the twitter chat with Introductions:

Introduction of PDA team and #TeachAgChat

Introduction of those on chat – How long of you been teaching? What State are you from? #TeachAgChat

Order of Prompts:

Q1) How do we get students thinking more about careers as they participate in our agriculture programming? #TeachAgChat

Q2) How have you gotten businesses involved in your program of skills-based training and career development? #TeachAgChat

Q3) In what ways are SAEs a tool in encouraging more thought about career development and specific occupations? #TeachAgChat

Q4) Have you used other forms of work-based learning (job shadowing, visits to businesses) to introduce careers? #TeachAgChat

Q5) What resources have you used to widen the vision of students about careers? #TeachAgChat

Q6) What are the careers in agriculture and food to which you direct your efforts?  Specific occupations or clusters of careers? #TeachAgChat

Q7) Does your approach differ for young people who go on to college and those who go into the workforce after high school? #TeachAgChat

Q8) How do we keep more of our agriculture students in agriculture and food careers? #TeachAgChat

Q9) Are there any additional questions from the audience to the hosts? #TeachAgChat

Pitch Time! Share with us the cool ideas you have in the #AgEdu Community #TeachAgChat

Please tune in Thursday February 9^th, 2017 at 8 PM EST to join this Teach Ag Chat.