This is a brief update on the Agriculture Workforce Training for Collaborative Leadership (AWT4CL) project. Our intent is to send a message like this once a month to keep various stakeholders informed of activities and opportunities related to the project. If this is no longer of interest to you, please reply to let us know. Otherwise, here’s the news…
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AWT4CL Update for August 2023
Power of Micro-lessons: A new report from America Succeeds and Skillsline makes the case for more attention to durable skills, and they argue micro-lessons (e.g., ten minutes a day over multiple weeks) are effective for “Bridging the gap.” A detailed analysis is included in a dissertation on “Exploring nontechnical skills and their impact on workplace behavior” (Greif, 2022).
Design for Delight: Recognizing that “tomorrow’s workforce will have to continuously evolve to survive,” a recent case study on Intuit’s “Design for Delight” program. A crosswalk and analysis by America Succeeds indicates “within the first thirty minutes, students were already – maybe without even realizing it – demonstrating numerous Durable Skills.” What insights can we apply in our own programs?
Conscious Competence: One of the first steps to learning is awareness of what you don’t know. A new blog post on “Facilitating Conscious Competence” features this point by highlighting the conscious competence ladder and aligning it with rethinking cycle: All of the AWT4CL project-related blog posts are available at the following URL: https://sites.google.com/vt.edu/awt/blog
Learning Badges for Employability Skills: Following the idea that emerged from the July 2022 cohort meeting and January 2023 check-in, the AWT4CL cohort is pilot testing learning badges that mirror aspects of a case study with the Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems major at the University of California, Davis. For more insight, check out the AWT4CL Badgr site.
This work is supported by Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) 2020-67037-31032 1022287 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Inquiries about the project should be directed to Dr. Eric K. Kaufman, the primary investigator. Additional information about the grant is available online at the USDA-NIFA project portal.
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