The Rural Voice, 1985-12, Page 42as'ab1e
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FARM NEWS
Agriculture
goes to school
Kindergarten to Grade 3 school
children in Perth County are going to
be learning that Old MacDonald's
Farm has changed a great deal. This
was the message heard by primary
teachers at a workshop sponsored by
the Perth County Agriculture in the
Classroom Committee. More than 80
teachers attended the event in Strat-
ford.
The workshop is a culmination of
18 months of planning and co-
ordination by the Women for the
Support of Agriculture in Perth
County. They founded the
Agriculture in the Classroom Com-
mittee, which has representatives
from the pork producers' association,
the Federation of Agriculture, milk
committee, and egg producers in
Perth County. The committee's goal
is to co-ordinate resource material
about agriculture for classroom use.
Putting modern agriculture in the
classroom was pioneered in
Middlesex County. The Middlesex
group held a workshop at a teacher's
Professional Development Day. At
PD days, various workshops vie for
the attention of teachers.
Perth's workshop was patterned
after Middlesex's, with a few new
added twists. "What's especially
noteworthy about this event is that
teachers are paid to attend PD days,
but they came out in the evening on
their own initiative without any pay
after a long day of school," says
Marjorie MacDonald. MacDonald
co-ordinates agricultural information
for schools for the Ontario Ministry
of Agriculture and Food (OMAF),
and says that the region including
Middlesex, Perth, and Oxford has
been on the leading edge of
agriculture in the classroom.
In Perth there were a few road
blocks to struggle over. Unlike in
Middlesex, there is no set curriculum
in Perth. Teachers set their own cur-
ricula following loose guidelines.
Therefore it's especially important
that the teachers themselves be made
aware of resource material in Perth,
says Sharon Weitzel of the Perth
Women for the Support of Agri-
culture, who was a key organizer of
the event.
Weitzel admits that the Agriculture
in the Classroom Committee has been
accused of trying to brainwash