Official Policy for Acceptance into
Alabama Ag in the Classroom Summer Institute 2008
June 17-19, 2008
at the Huntsville Marriott

The workshop will include integrated agricultural activities for grades K-6 and field trips to active farms. Participants will receive innovative materials and teaching strategies that increase student knowledge of the nutritional and economic importance of the food and fiber systems in their daily lives. Activities incorporate language arts, science, social studies, and mathematics skills as well as those found in the Alabama courses of study and on the Stanford 9 Test.

The Alabama Ag in the Classroom (AITC) Planning Committee has established the following criteria for selection of applicants to attend Summer Institute 2008.

1. Applicants selected to attend must be:
• full-time K-6 classroom teachers;
• K-6 home-school teachers, who instruct more than children in a single family;
• home school area coordinators;
• K-6 librarians; or
• administrative personnel, including superintendents, principals, administrative assistants, currently working in grades K-6
• Alabama Cooperative Extension System Agents who work with K-6 th grade students and/or teachers on a regular basis
• Alabama Soil and Water Association District Coordinators who work with K-6 th grade students and/or teachers on a regular basis.

2. Applicants must submit an application form provided by the AITC Planning Committee.

3. Preference will be given to first time attendees. Participants of past Summer Institutes will be placed on a waiting list.

4. Applications must be received before April 15, 2008. Following the deadline, a Selection Committee will review the applications and recommend participants.

5. The Institute will be limited to 95 educators and applicants will be selected on the basis of an application form provided by the Alabama Agriculture in the Classroom Planning Committee.

6. The Selection Committee reserves the right to limit the number of participants permitted to attend from each grade level and from any one school.

Roundtrip mileage to the workshop location, lodging, meals, and workshop materials will be furnished to participants. Applicants must be present at the workshop location from 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday June 17, until noon on Thursday, June 19, and must attend all scheduled activities to receive a stipend.

Application Deadline: April 15, 2008
Send applications to:
Amy Belcher
Alabama Ag in the Classroom
PO Box 3336
Montgomery , AL 36109-0336
Fax 334/240-7169

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