Place: online
Training language: English
Dates: On-going
Duration: On-going
Cost: Free
Funding: n/a
Target groups and admission requirements: This online resource is organized as a course outline. You can use the entire outline or draw from and reorganize it to meet your course’s requirements, students’ backgrounds, learning objectives, and learning context (e.g., classroom, college farm, community garden).
Training objectives: By providing this online material we hope to enhance the efforts of those now teaching sustainable agriculture topics and encourage instructors to develop new courses in this emerging field. The Course Outline includes topics in social and environmental sciences; plant, soil, crop, and animal sciences; pest management; natural resource management; the adoption of sustainable agriculture; and the growth and development of sustainable agriculture and the organic food industry.
Training program: The resource has 5 components –
- Course Description and Learning Objectives – The course description defines the scope of the course and can be used in a college catalogue or course syllabus. The learning objectives list the concepts and/or skill set that the students are expected to learn during the course.
- Course Outline – The Course Outline offers the suggested sequence of the course, listing major topic and sub-topics to address.
- Annotated Resource Listings – Each bold-faced main topic or sub-topic in the Course Outline references a resource listing (PDF and Word formats). These annotated listings provide suggested student readings, additional print resources, existing curricula, web sites, PowerPoint, slide, and video resources that can be used to design and teach a given topic in the course outline.
- Laboratory Section – The laboratory section lists field-based and hands-on exercises that address and/or complement the materials taught in the lecture portion of the course. (pdf) (MS Word)
- Teaching Sustainability in Agriculture: Resources for Instructors – These annotated references offer information for integrating principles of sustainability into agriculture education. (pdf) (MS Word)
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