Professional Development. What is professional development? Defined; Professional development is learning to earn or maintain professional credentials such as formal coursework, conferences and informal learning opportunities situated in practice. Over my time spent with Dr. Foster and Penn State, I have learned that professional development can be this intensive and collaborative learning session, while also expanding my knowledge in particular subjects and opening the door to many new faces.
This time, at the New and Beginning Teacher Workshop, I was the youngest of the 6 people there. It was truly fascinating to see so many people with the same passion of agriculture to sit around the room. My only concern with this meeting, is that there was a low attendance rate, and so much good information was being said and discussed that those people who were not there, missed out on it. I would highly recommend getting out there to a new and beginning teacher workshop. Although there are a lot of single teacher programs, we can't continue to fight for and teach ag by ourselves, so there is a purpose for us to be there, and fight for agricultural education across the commonwealth.
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