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AEB221 TEACHING METHODS IN AGRICULTURE (2024 SEMESTER 2 FT)

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
Teacher: Keba Hulela

AEE604 SEMINARS SERIES IN AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION (2022 SEMESTER 2 FT)

Course Aim and Objectives

To expose students to the culture of exploring Agricultural Education’s issues, problems and opportunities and to the fora that debate on them to seek solutions. At the end of the course students should be able to;
• Demonstrate knowledge of what Agricultural Education is all about.
• Demonstrate knowledge of basic terms including: Meeting, Seminar, Workshop, Conference and Symposium
• Plan an effective seminar
• Prepare a seminar presentation
• Present in a seminar set up
• Demonstrate knowledge of learning from a seminar
• Act as a discussant in an educational gathering
• Identify topical issues in Agricultural Education and orchestrate their debates
• Learn from critiquing research articles presented in seminars

Rationale

The course intends to expose students to the scholarly culture of exploring agricultural education issues to debate on and sort solutions. The course further intends to acquaint students not only with presentation skills but also with planning skills and associated logistics.

Course Synopsis

The course is designed to identify issues, problems and opportunities in Agricultural education in Botswana, sub Saharan Africa and in the world at large.