(sent to ICAE members and ICAE advisory individuals)
Hi ICAE Members:
Thank you for your participation on Thursday. I wanted to follow-up with three items below. Your time, efforts, and commitment are appreciated. Dean
1 - Ag Ed Curriculum Investigation and Plan Attached is an excel doc with 3 tabs - investigation, plan, new lessons. Feel free to view the other state and vendor sites in the website column. I copied the plan tab below that includes login for our IL Ag Ed Core Curriculum at www.myCAERT.com.
2 - FCAE staff monthly reports - click to review. Feedback is always appreciated. Dean's February report is not uploaded yet though it will be by Sunday evening.
3 - 2019 Ag, Food, & Natural Resources (AFNR) Report. Click to review. The full report and each page are linked for a specific topic(page) of the report. Please forward to colleagues.
Presentation of Agricultural Education Curriculum Research Findings and Recommendations
Illinois Committee for Agricultural Education (ICAE) Meeting – March 5, 2020
1 - Investigation of 10 states and 12 vendors
2 – IL Ag Ed Core Curriculum located at: www.MyCAERT.com
login: Teacher Illinois ICAEAG ICAEAG
login: Teacher Illinois ICAECTE ICAECTE
-New 5E outline format: Exploring, Explaining, Elaborating, Evaluating, Engaging
-Lesson plan, PowerPoint, Eunit, Assessment, My Community
-1035 lessons and resources
-Illinois subscription cost – Paid up to May 30, 2021
$1041.67/month
$12,500/year
$35.41/school with an agriculture program/year (353 schools)
$28.34/ag teacher/year (441 teachers)
-FY18 contract deliverables for Plant 5E, Animal 5E, Horticulture 5E are complete.
3 – Ag Teacher Curriculum Survey Results (attached)
4 – New Curriculum Development
Phase 1 - Revision of AgriBusiness library – 87 lessons = $100,000
Phase 2 - New lessons and resources development – 60 lessons = $150,000
-Curriculum alignment to state standards
-Reading level of Eunits
-Assessment question quality to include higher order thinking
-Inclusion of video links for each lesson
-Inclusion of more lab-based(Engaging) activities for each lesson
Phase 3 – Series of professional learning two day trainings: summer, fall, spring
5 – Field notes and observations
6 - Q/A
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Dean Dittmar
Facilitating Coordination in Ag Education (FCAE)
Phone: 217-893-0091 Cell: 618-604-1622
Email: ddittmar@ILAgEd.org
Address: 3358 Big Pine Trail , Champaign, IL 61822