2026 KFAC Teacher of the Year Application
Eligibility: K-12 district-certified Kansas Teacher currently integrating agricultural concepts into a non-vocational agricultural classroom setting. Submission Deadline: January 15, 2025.
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1. Why do you incorporate agriculture in your classroom? What was your inspiration to start and/or keep going?
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2. Describe how you have introduced and integrated agriculture concepts into your lesson plans and classroom community, sharing what has worked well for you over the years with your students and highlighting any new opportunities for integration you have implemented recently. Please be specific to the types of activities and/or course topics.
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3. List the courses in which you integrate the teaching of agricultural concepts.
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4. Describe the methodology you found to be most helpful to the integration of agricultural concepts into your curriculum and highlight interdisciplinary, creative, new and/or innovative methods you have used and found effective (please include course names).
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5. Highlight interdisciplinary, creative, new and/or innovative methods you have used in your classroom and found effective.
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6. Please share how your teaching has impacted student learning. Explain how you have helped students better understand agriculture and/or the impact of Kansas agriculture on their personal lives. Describe the methods you use to assess their growth of understanding, skills, and attitudes.
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7. Describe the methods you use to assess their growth of understanding, skills, and attitudes.
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8. How have you engaged others outside your own classroom (school, school district, families, community) in learning about and appreciating the value of teaching agriculture in the classroom?
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9. In general, describe the agriculture lessons or units incorporated into your classes that would demonstrate the full picture of topics you cover over the course of the school year. Explain how your teaching of agricultural concepts met the teaching and assessment of state educational standards in a broad sense.
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10. Name a specific KFAC or NAITCO lesson you incorporate in your classroom. List the class(es) you teach it in, objectives, Kansas standards, and National Agricultural Literacy Outcomes.
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*Optional* Upload full prepared lesson referenced in the above question. If you do attach a full lesson plan, you do not have to list out the standards in the question above.
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Please provide five photos of you teaching agriculture in your classroom, as well as one professional headshot. Include photos that exhibit the practices you've described in the above questions. (Photos must be JPG or JPEG files and no larger than 1 MB each.) Photos will be used for promotion if you are chosen as a winner.
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