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 November 2024
Competence Development: Are you leveraging the potential of real-world applications to enhance agricultural content knowledge? The most recent issue of The Agricultural Education Magazine focused on “Skill/Competence Development in School-Based Agricultural Education,” and the opening article addresses that very question.
Teaching Skills That Matters: The Teaching the Skills That Matter (TSTM) project supports adult education with resources for transferable skill development. The TSTM Toolkit includes open educational resources developed by adult education experts and includes a section specific to Workforce Preparation. How might you incorporate these resources into your work?
Inner Development for Workforce Readiness: Are you integrating the United Nations’ Inner Development Goals (IDGs) into your curricula? The October 2024 AWT4CL blog post provides insight on potential connections with the IDGs’ five dimensions: Being, Thinking, Relating, Collaborating, and Acting You can find this and other project-related blog posts at https://sites.google.com/vt.edu/awt/blog
Higher Education Pedagogy: The Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy showcases the best pedagogical practice and research in higher education today. Sessions address disciplinary and interdisciplinary instructional strategies, outcomes, and research. The conference is scheduled for February 12-14, 2025, in Blacksburg VA; and discounted registration rates are available through November 30th.
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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