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Texas State University's Math in AFNR Workshop - Mathematics in Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources (AFNR): Teaching mathematics to enhance student performance, understanding the TEKS, and the Agricultural Mechanics CDE

Description:
This workshop is designed to provide school-based agricultural educators with mathematical instruction, ideas, and concepts that relate to: instruction of curriculum regarding the new course entitled Mathematic Applications in Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources, the Agricultural Mechanics CDE Contest, and the new TEKS. Teachers will learn how to apply mathematical concepts to real-world situations found in all areas of agriculture. Emphasis will be given on applying mathematic concepts in the classroom as well as in a laboratory setting. In addition, a swap shop of ideas will be conducted to share concepts that work for the education of students regarding the Agricultural Mechanics CDE contest.

Date:
Friday, October 1, 2010

Time:
9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Location:
Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
221 Agriculture Building

Presenters:
Dr. Ryan Saucier, Texas State University
Dr. Kirk Edney, Instructional Material Services
Dr. Billy McKim, Texas A&M University

Registration at www.JudgingCard.com

Cost $25 per teacher (includes lunch). Limited to 25 teachers.

Teachers will take home sample math problems and solutions that can be modified and used in classroom/laboratory situations.

House Rules to be Highly Qualified for Math and Science - The House Rules must have been met before the 2007-08 school year except for Math and Science. The No Child Left Behind staff at TEA extended the House Rules for Math and Science because of the 4 by 4 rule that added a fourth Math and Science...more

AFNR Scope and Sequence - The following link offers information about courses developed in accordance with TEKS.Click here to view AFNR Scope and Sequence documents.

VATAT Conference PowerPoints and Handouts - You can find PowerPoints and handouts used during the 2010 VATAT Professional Development Conference in Galveston here. 

Conference Wrap-Up - Do you want to see pictures from this year's VATAT Professional Development Conference? Click here to see some of the highlights from Galveston--enjoy! 

NAAE Communities of Practice - For your reference, click here for the NAAE's Communities of Practice page. This page can also be found under Teacher Toolbox>Resources on our Web site.  

Summary of the 2010 - 2011 Graduation Requirements - To view the summary of the 2010 - 2011 graduation requirements from TEA's Web site please click here.

Career and Technical Education - Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills, Course Crosswalks and Coherent Sequences - Recommendations for revision of the TEKS were adopted by the SBOE at the July 2009 meeting. The TEKS that the SBOE adopted may be accessed here. A draft course crosswalk comparing the 1997 courses to the courses to be implemented in 2010-11, a recommended course sequence and a text equivalent description of the recommended course sequence for each cluster may be accessed here under the Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources' link.

New TEKS Posted -TEA is pleased to announce that the career and technical education (CTE) Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) is now posted on the TEA website.  You will find Chapter 130 at http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/rules/home/sboeadopt.html .  

Chapter 130 contains 16 separate subsections, one for each cluster.  It is in this chapter that you will find the TEKS for the high school Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources courses (subsection A).   

Chapter 127 has both old and new courses, so look at the implementation dates when you read the TEKS.  The old courses in 127 will go away in 2010. You will find Chapter 127 at http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/.

Chapter 127 contains two new middle school courses and three new high school courses which are common to all CTE (any CTE teacher can teach these courses).  There will be no final decisions made until January by the State Board of Education concerning courses that might count as a fourth math or science or those which might meet the speech or fine arts requirement.