2027 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 30, 2026.
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Please list any awards or recognition you have received, as well as any grants, community outreach, extension activities, professional development, or memberships that support your work in teaching agriculture and advancing agricultural literacy.
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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. Please share specific examples from your classroom of how you ensure students receive accurate and up-to-date agricultural information. For instance, this could include addressing common misconceptions (e.g., gluten is bad, organic is healthier) and reinforcing fact-based agricultural knowledge.
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3. Describe activities or approaches you use to foster positive attitudes towards agriculture among your students?
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4. What agriculture-related skills do your students gain through your instruction? For example, hands-on practices such as planting and growing, or transferable skills like problem-solving and critical thinking. How do you assess whether students have achieved mastery of these skills?
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5. Can you share an example of how you used innovative, interdisciplinary, or creative methodologies to teach an agricultural topic and adjusted your instruction to support all learners, including those with diverse backgrounds or learning needs?
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6. What teaching strategies contributed most to student learning when you used a KFAC or NAITCO lesson or unit to gain student understanding of selected agricultural literacy themes successfully? Be sure to name and describe the lesson/unit.
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7. What evidence have you seen that demonstrated students have a deeper understanding of agricultural themes as a result of the above lesson or unit?
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8. In what ways do you involve students in real-life agricultural learning experiences, such as fieldwork, classroom experiments, or engagement with industry professionals?
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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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