Today is the last Friday of #summer2015. I spent a good amount of time relaxing. I spent another good chunk of time time working on / thinking about /exploring all things education / food / nutrition / home ec /....... And as I did all those things, I recorded ideas for my upcoming semesters in an evernote note I entitled "15/16 Planning Ideas" [creative. I know]. There are quite a few gems in there that I'm excited to include this year. This morning, however, I spent an hour adding ideas to that note from a source I was surprised to be so inspired by. Before I tell you what that was (spoiler alert: the title of this post may or may not give it away...) let me tell you what has been inspiring me to fill up that note this summer.
I was inspired:
Don't get me wrong. I'm not going to completely transform my pedagogy and work through the textbook page by page with my students but I did find gem after gem of information. This textbook, written by esteemed colleagues from across the country, talks about relevant, accurate information and asks critical thinking questions. It has page write ups of "Historical Perspectives" which I filed away for our #ThrowbackThursdays. It has intriguing "Food for Thought" concepts in the margins that would be perfect to post up periodically in my classroom. It has interesting recipes that challenge students to look at the way they prepare food in unique, thoughtful ways. It has critical thinking sections that challenge students to consider relevant, important aspects of food including the use of pesticides, local foods being exported, aqua culture, local wild foods, food security.... I've spent countless hours (I don't even want to know how many hours) researching this kind of information online.... searching and searching for accurate information... wondering if it was authentic and how I could present this information to my students. The whole time there was a book, sitting in a cupboard over my desk beckoning me to open it so it could help me out. I'm not saying this book is the be all and end all of all things Food and Nutrition. There were parts of it I read that I didn't necessarily agree with but there was so much more information that I was inspired by. It is an incredible resource with so much valuable information to be used carefully. I'm not sure where my aversion to textbooks came from, maybe from how I felt like they were traditionally used, but I will say I am quite excited about my re-discovery of this gem of a resource. Now to just see how I'm going to fit in these new ideas into my semester....
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