Tracey Hoffman has been the agriculture educator at Ovid-Elsie High School in Elsie, Michigan since 2003. She credits the program’s subsequent success to the immense support of her school’s administrators and the community.
Over time, the program has evolved to offer science-based, specialized courses as well as an agriculture literacy course for eighth graders. She has evolved her program to meet the interests of these students, and as a result has seen the program thrive.
Tracey encourages her to students to be active both in the classroom and in related out-of-school experiences. Tracey fully incorporates the three-circle model of agricultural education.
Tracey’s ability to master the multitude of diverse roles required of an agriculture teacher make her effective at managing classroom instruction to communicating with community stakeholders, she makes sure that the students are at the center of the agriculture program.
Congratulations to Tracey Hoffman for being selected as the NAAE Region IV Outstanding Agriculture Teacher.
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