Mentoring Language- How to Use It Effectively Using appropriate language within your mentor relationship is vital to ensuring the relationship is open and positive. There are seven categories that can help you foster effective language when ... READ MORE
Category: Professional Development, UF/IFAS Extension,
SMART goals provide a framework often used in various settings to create specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound objectives. When applied to mentorship, SMART goals can provide structure and clarity for both mentors and mentees. SMART ... READ MORE
Category: Professional Development, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension
In September, Lana Guzman, UF/IFAS College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS) sophomore, attended Agriculture Future of America’s (AFA) Policy Institute. Guzman, an agricultural education and communication student, was selected to ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Professional Development, UF/IFAS Teaching
Here's another oldie-but-goodie pulled from pages as IFAS migrates blogs. These are some of the public engagement with science (aka science outreach or informal science education or science communication) resources I have found in my day. Public ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Natural Resources, Professional Development, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research
If you're working on a career in public engagement with science ... As my IFAS blog migrates internally, several individual pages I have will be going away, so I am re-publishing them as blog posts. I originally published this list of resources ... READ MORE
Category: Professional Development
By Megan Karlin, Agriculture Future of America Kansas City, MO – From Panama City, Florida, Kayla Bashore is motivated and determined to make a positive impact on the world. As a junior at University of Florida studying agricultural ... READ MORE
Category: Professional Development
If you're working on a career in public engagement with science ... I’m compiling a set of resources for people looking to get jobs in public engagement with science. (or STEM) or outreach or informal science education or free-choice learning ... READ MORE
Category: Professional Development, UF/IFAS Research, Work & Life
Well, it depends. $58 million is what NASA estimates a trip around the moon as a SpaceX tourist would cost. For most people, it's out of reach compared to our median U.S. incomes of $59 thousand in 2017, or about 1000 times less than the cost ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Curriculum, Natural Resources, Professional DevelopmentA colleague of mine from the UF Innovation Academy paid me a high compliment, noting me as an innovative and interdisciplinary thinker (full disclosure: my immediate reaction was, who, moi?). She asked me to share any thoughts I had on "how ... READ MORE
Category: Professional Development, UF/IFAS ResearchAs people develop their public engagement (aka outreach or communication or informal/free-choice education) practices, they may begin to think about the style they use when engaging. One tool that agricultural educators often draw on is Kolb's ... READ MORE
Category: Professional Development, UF/IFAS Extension