Students will become well-versed in the following learning areas while in their
tenure as a graduate student in the Agricultural Education program at
Iowa State University.
Students will:
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Delivery
Systems: Select, organize, and implement appropriate delivery systems
to fit a variety of teaching and learning situations.
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Learning
Systems:
Model and utilize appropriate learning principles and theories
in agriculturally related learning situations.
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Evaluation: Select,
organize, and implement appropriate formative and summative evaluation
strategies for accountability and
program improvement.
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Philosophy
and Knowledge Base of Agricultural Education: Develop a foundation for one’s personal
philosophy of
agricultural
education
by
synthesizing and evaluating appropriate philosophical
models.
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Needs
Assessment Analysis: Develop and evaluate appropriate strategies for analyzing
and assessing educational
needs, situations, and processes.
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Planning
and Development:
Organize educational programs utilizing appropriate planning
and development
models.
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International
Agricultural Education and Technology Transfer: Organize and evaluate
international agricultural
education
programs based upon
the principles of technology transfer.
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Research
Design and Analysis: Design, conduct, report, and evaluate quantitative
and qualitative
research
utilizing appropriate
design
and analysis models.
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Administration,
Supervision and Leadership Development: Organize, conduct, and
evaluate activities that
further the mission of
Agricultural Education,
provide growth opportunities for
its practitioners, and foster development
of a vision for
the profession.
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Policy
and Trends in Agricultural Education: Monitor the development
of trends and administration
of policies
in and
outside the discipline
of Agricultural Education and
explain their impact or potential impact
on the discipline.