Professional Development

The Summer Conference of the Pennsylvania Association of Agricultural Educators is held annually to conduct the business of the association and to provide opportunities for professional development, strategic planning, and building partnerships.  For more information, click here.

CASE connects education and industry through purposeful curricula and transformative professional development.  CASE impacts student career readiness by empowering teachers with improved instructional practices and relevant curricula sustained by professional development.  For a schedule of institutes, click here.

The National Agriscience Teacher Ambassador Academy (NATAA) has over 15 years of successfully cultivating agriscience and inquiry-based learning in agricultural education. The Academy serves to train agriculture teachers on how to enhance the science that is already present in agriculture, as well as develop students as problem solvers and thinkers through the inquiry-based teaching method.  For more information, click here.

CSATS is a leader in transforming precollege STEM education, contributing to the university’s land-grant mission in a 21st-century context by leveraging the research being done at Penn State. CSATS works with Penn State researchers and their colleagues to develop, implement, assess, and disseminate STEM outreach programs.  For a listing of summer workshops, click here.

The Southern Arkansas University (SAU) Department of Agriculture is hosting a hands-on, project-based workshop to provide teachers with the knowledge and skills needed to complete trailer fabrication projects. This workshop will include a wide range of topics related to trailer fabrication, such as safety, oxy-acetylene torch use, handheld plasma cutting, MIG welding, and project layout, fabrication, and finishing procedures. Teachers of all experience levels are invited to attend. However, we recommend that participating teachers have at least some prior experience with MIG welding.  For additional information, click here.

We hope that you will consider joining us on the Texas A&M campus this summer.  June 12 -16, 2023.  Over 20 different one and two-day workshops are being offered. Join us for hands-on, doing to learn professional development.  Come to one or come to five.  For more information, click here.

This intensive ten-day academy is designed to assist beginning agricultural education instructors who have received little to no training in agricultural mechanics and feel the need to improve upon their skills and associated teaching methods. The primary focus is enhancing participants’ knowledge and skills pertaining to theory and fundamentals, consumable selection and usage, and applications of small gas engines, electricity, and welding. The secondary focus is geared toward examining teaching methods/strategies that increase student participation and comprehension of agricultural mechanics.

The Academy will be hosted in person by Dr. Ryan Anderson at Texas State University. Dr. Anderson, Educational Specialists at Briggs & Stratton and Lincoln Electric will provide the instruction within each of their disciplines. For additional questions about the workshop, please
contact Ryan at [email protected]. This work is supported by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, AFRI Professional Development for Agricultural Literacy Priority Area, award #2021-08590.  For more information, click here.  To apply, click here.

Dear Potential Participants: 

Thank you for being so interested in our 2023 Summer Workshop Series. We are excited to offer you a wide variety of virtual workshops for CEU Credit. This summer, we offer 26 virtual and 14 seated workshops that will award credit to teachers. For our online workshops, we are excited to provide you with these opportunities at no cost to the participants as an outreach service of the University of Mount Olive and the School of Agriculture and Biological Sciences. 

The online workshops do not have a limit on the number of participants. If we reach our capacity (300 participants) to host on Zoom for any of the workshops, we will contact all participants to make alternate arrangements before the scheduled workshop date. For more information, click HERE.

We want all workshop participants to register at least one week before the workshop. We will send the link and any workshop materials before the workshop. If you register within one week of the workshop, there is no guarantee that you will receive the initial email contact, the materials, or the certificate for CEUs for your licensure. 

The link to sign up for the online workshops is HERE.

You may return to this link and register for more workshops any time. 

The Zoom links for all workshops are at the end of the guide. 

All times listed are Eastern Daylight Time, so if you live in another time zone, please adjust your calendar. 

At the end of the workshop series in August, we will send all participants a certificate showing credit for all of the online workshops they attended. Certificates will be presented in person for the seated workshops. 

If you have any additional questions about the workshop series, you may email me at [email protected] 

We look forward to working with you this summer, 

Stephen Edwards, Ph. D. 
Associate Professor of Agriculture Education 
Department Chair of Agricultural Education and Agribusiness 
University of Mount Olive