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Pennsylvania Farm Bureau Selects Teacher of the Year
Pennsylvania Ag Connection - 07/16/2019
Pennsylvania Farm Bureau's (PFB) Agriculture Promotion Committee has selected Schuylkill County teacher Patricia "Trish" Zimmerman as the 2019 Teacher of the Year.
Zimmerman teaches science to 7th and 8th grade students at Pottsville Middle School. She specifically credited her participation in the Pennsylvania Friends of Agriculture Foundation's Educator's Ag Institute last summer for inspiring her to incorporate more
agriculture-related studies in her science classes over the past year.
"I took it on as a challenge to see how much more agriculture I could infuse into an urban setting school, where the students are not as familiar with agriculture," said Zimmerman. "It was a challenge to change the agriculture studies already in my curriculum, but it
was exciting to see how much more I could get in there."
The award was presented to Zimmerman during the Educator's Ag Institute, which is a weeklong gathering held in State College that includes hands-on classroom sessions, farm tours and materials for teachers to take home for use during their classroom
activities.
"Trish is a true success story for our Ag Educator's Institute. She took information and personal experiences from tours and seminars and incorporated those experiences into her classroom setting," said Agriculture Promotion Committee Chair Chris Hoffman,
who also serves as PFB vce president. "Teachers participating in the yearly gathering in State College help the foundation meet its mission of promoting and preserving agriculture by placing a special emphasis on educational programs for children across the
Commonwealth."
Zimmerman grew up in a rural area and "lived" agriculture, participating in FFA and as a fair princess and queen. Zimmerman says she covered a variety of topics in her regular classes and in additional STEM classes, which offered multiple agriculture extension
activities with science themes. Some examples included Reduce, Reuse, Recycle (RRR), Hydroponics, DNA Extraction and Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs).
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