Course AEB 221 prepares student teachers to define their teaching methods, approaches, and strategies to enhance the teaching-learning of agriculture in both formal and informal environments. The course outline enables instructors to make learning an enjoyable scenario by choosing the most suitable method(s) or strategies in teaching and learning agriculture. The course content is taken from the book called ‘Methods of Teaching Agriculture ‘(Newcomb et al, 2004) which offers the foundations for methods of teaching agriculture, applications of learning, the special needs of unique populations, and the procedures for evaluating teaching and learning. The content for this course as described by Newcomb et al, (2004) is a comprehensive exploration of the teacher preparation curriculum in agricultural education. Topics offered to student teachers during this course are taken from the same book and include decisions about teaching, planning, group teaching techniques, managing student behavior, teaching special populations, and evaluating learning (Newcomb et al, 2004).
Students taking this course should be able to acquaint themselves with appropriate techniques and technologies for teaching and learning. This is a core course for the programme of Agricultural Education