2007 Conference Reports

The workshop sessions from the 2007 SAEA conference were collected through the Confluence wiki application. This program was made available to the SAEA by Cornell’s Mann Library.

• Session 1 Challenges and opportunities of implementing innovative, educational methods
• Session 1 Curriculum – Interdisciplinary Curriculum Development
• Session 1 How to Start and Sustain – Student Recruitment, retention, and placements
• Session 1 Other – Sustainable Culture
• Session 1 Student Farms – Stategic Planning
• Session 1 Ways of Knowing – Movement of Knowledge Horizontal Knowledge Production
• Session 1 Ways of Knowing – Power, Legitimacy and Way of Knowing

• Session 2 Field Trip to Dilmun Hill Student Farm and MacDaniels Nut Grove

• Session 3 Characteristics of a Learner Centered Classroom
• Session 3 Different Models Different Muddles
• Session 3 Experiential Learning
• Session 3 How to Start and Sustain – Community Outreach and a Sustainable Ag Ed Program
• Session 3 How to Start and Sust – Program Dev I
• Session 3 Student Farms – Integrating student farms into the curriculum
• Session 3 Student Farms – Student Labor Issues
• Session 3 Systems Thinking What is it what is its role…
• Session 3 What and How to Teach

• Session 4 High School Sust Ag Programs
• Session 4 How to Start and Sustain – Program Development
• Session 4 Learning in Diverse Collaborative Communities
• Session 4 Student Farms- Innovations on Student Farms
• Session 4 Sustainablility & Economics
• Session 4 Transending Traditional Assignments

• Session 5 Teaching for Social Change

• Sust Ag Ed Association – Conferences and Meetings Committee
• Sust Ag Ed Association – Fundraising Committee
• Sust Ag Ed Association – Outreach and Membership Committee
• Sust Ag Ed Association – Student Committee
• Sust Ag Ed Association – Transitional Steering Committee