My #TeachAgBelize Experience!
During my spring break, I had the amazing opportunity to travel to Belize as part of an embedded course at Penn State entitled AEE499: Indigenous Knowledge and Agricultural Education. The purpose of this experience was to explore formal and non-formal agricultural education through indigenous populations with multi-lingual cultures. This blog post will cover some of my biggest takeaways from this experience and how I plan to use what I've learned in my future classroom! Indigenous Knowledge and Cultures Throughout our time in Belize, we were fortunate enough to spend three days in Laguna, a traditional Mayan village, where we stayed the night in a Mayan hut and ate meals with Mayan families. This part of the experience brought some of the biggest challenges, but also some of the biggest life lessons. An image of the inside of the Mayan hut that was stayed in for three days. The challenges of this portion of the experiences primarily came from being pushed out of our co...