Curriculum Corner: Inservice Opportunities | Tennessee 4-H Youth Development

Jennifer Richards, Assistant Professor

Two In-service Opportunities

We are excited to be offering two in-services this year! The first, which takes place this month and next will be focused on Grant Writing. The second, which will take place in late April and early May will focus on educational design and lesson planning. We encourage each of you to consider attending one, or both upcoming in-services! Please register at the links provided!

Interested in finding federal, state, and foundation grant dollars to support your county Extension programming? This session will offer practical strategies and tips for selecting the right funding opportunities, writing quality proposals, and navigating Sponsored Projects and the submission process.

Presenters:	Dr. Jennifer Richards and Courtney Holbert
Credit Hours:	6
Eastern Region:	January 17, 2017 Eastern Region Office SUPER link
Central Region:	January 31, 2017 Rutherford County Extension Office, Room C SUPER link
Western Region:	February 5, 2017 Madison County Extension Office SUPER link

Do you want to develop quality lesson plans for your in-school and project-based clubs? This in- service will allow you to get a background in educational outcome development, assessing how well your students learn, and writing quality lesson on everything from insect identification to developing leadership skills.

Presenters:	Dr. Jennifer Richards and James Swart
Credit Hours:	6
Eastern Region:	April 25, 2017 Eastern Region Office SUPER link
Central Region:	May 1, 2017 Rutherford County – Community Building SUPER link
Western Region:	May 2, 2017 WTREC, Room B SUPER link

Before the holiday break, you were sent two surveys that we are using to gather infor- mation related to Clover Bowl. There have been an outstanding number of responses to each of those surveys! These surveys will close on Jan. 20th, so if you have not completed the survey or distributed it to teachers in your county, please do so before that date.

The links are included below.