Plant Propagation

Course Schedule - Week 15

Today and Wednesday will provide all of you with an opportunity to practice your presentation in preparation for this coming Saturday's Master Gardener volunteer training workshop.

We'll end the class with a quiz (Quiz #18). The content of the quiz will be cumulative - meaning it can cover anything that's been presented since the beginning of the semester. The intent of this quiz - and the one on Wednesday - is to help you reflect on how everything we've discussed this semester fits together. While this may be seem daunting - especially considering all of the demands on your time as the semester is winding down - keep in mind that the quiz is worth just ten points.

Finally, if you've not already done so, make sure you finish grading your third exam in preparation for our one-on-one review session this Friday!

The main objective of today's class will be to complete the practice presentations for this coming Saturday's Master Gardener training session.

We'll end the class with the last quiz of the semester (Quiz #19)! I will also return Monday's ungraded quiz (Quiz #18). You'll have until midnight this Friday evening, April 24, to email your score (between 0 and 10 as always) to me, using the Quiz 18 grading rubric and review video at this link.

By now you know the routine when it comes to these meetings.

Obviously, make sure that you've got your third exam graded and have a list of confusions ready to discuss. As important, I'll also want to spend a couple of minutes discussing the progress you're making on the various parts of your capstone project. Obviously, I've had the opportunity to watch your presentation and, hopefully, I've also seen your video, too!

I will also return Wednesday's ungraded quiz (Quiz #19). As always, you'll find a grading rubric and review video for this quiz here. Please email me your score (between 0 and 10 points) no later than midnight this coming Sunday, April 26.

As I've mentioned several times over the course of the semester, I believe the best way to learn is to teach - and today's workshop is going to give us an opportunity to see if this really is true?

Case in point, in the image at right, two students in the Spring 2016 iteration of this class instruct Master Gardener volunteers on how to perform "whip and tongue" grafts. Both students, Alex and Tommy, later said that despite doing the readings, watching the video lectures, visiting Cummins Nursery and performing their own grafts in the grafting and budding lab, it wasn't until they were preparing for their workshop presentation that they really understood process from beginning to end.

Also, not to put additional pressure on you, but to quote from an email from Karen Bishop as she and I were arranging this workshop last fall, "Would it be possible to present this class again to my new group of MG trainees in the Spring of 2019? I know that this was a lot of work for both the students and you, but it was an excellent presentation, and rated the best training class by the previous group of Master Gardeners."