AgrowKnowledge: The National Center for Agriscience and Technology Education

AgrowKnowledge：国家农业科技教育中心

• 批准号: 0434405
• 负责人: Terry Brase
• 金额: $ 300万
• 依托单位: Kirkwood Community College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-07-01 至 2009-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0434405&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: AgrowKnowledge; National; Center; Agriscience; Technology

AgrowKnowledge, The National Center for Agriscience and Technology Education, is continuing its leadership with its specific focus on agriculture technology education in community colleges and secondary schools. Sixteen AgrowKnowledge Community College Partners and their local secondary programs, a five member University Council, and an active Industry Council share a vision for 21st century agricultural technology education in which students from diverse backgrounds: 1. Pursue rigorous, high quality programs of study in Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources (AFNR) with coursework that emphasizes technology, mathematics, and science skills; 2. Move through a seamless educational system with clear articulation plans among secondary schools, community colleges, and universities; and 3. Graduate from college well prepared for a dynamic and increasingly technological workforce. The intellectual merit of the Center is in its effort to expand curriculum and faculty development and to institutionalize science, mathematics, and technology as an integral part of student learning in agriculture technology education. By having the University Council as part of the consortium, AgrowKnowledge adds a research component, particularly in the areas of articulation, recruitment, teacher education, and technology transfer. Their involvement, with that of the Industry Council, also helps validate curriculum and instruction projects, which are aligned with national standards for science, mathematics, and technology. The broader impact of the Center is on students who, because of their exposure to emerging technology, find themselves better prepared to enter agricultural careers, whether assuming responsibility for the family farm, working as an industry technician, or continuing their education for a professional degree in agriculture science, research, or education. The 16 AgrowKnowledge Partners reach out to a growing number of community colleges and secondary schools. As a result, the Center is producing educational models, workshops, curriculum guides, and instructional materials for an ever larger number of students and faculty across the country. The AgrowKnowledge Center's purpose is to create systems that support student success; to provide curriculum with advanced science, mathematics, and technology skills integrated; and to develop community college faculty who use that curriculum or enhance their own courses and programs. Activities include the following: 1. Tracking student enrollment and develop recruiting tools to include recruitment of underrepresented students. 2. Tracking changes in selected community college agriculture students' mathematics and science scores. 3. Expanding the strong participation of 16 Lead Community College Partners to include formal recruitment of 32 additional community colleges; 4. Increasing the number of faculty involved in Faculty Development Workshops by instituting a process that replicates the workshops regionally; 5. Increasing community college partnerships with secondary and post-secondary schools and business and industry by holding Vision 2020 planning institutes, a process for building those partnerships and encouraging 2+2+2 articulation; 6. Developing curriculum guides for areas of study that support the use of emerging technology in agriculture to include identification and/or development of programs of study, coursework, and computer-based Learning Objects. 7. Enhancing the replication of curriculum with science, technology, and mathematics integrated through the website clearinghouse. While agriculture education might once have been considered a diminishing part of the community college system, today there is a renewed vitality, in part because of the efforts of AgrowKnowledge members who are recruiting new students, especially from underrepresented categories, and finding new ways to excite students about a promising future for agriculture.

AgrowKnowledge，国家农业科学和技术教育中心，继续其领导地位，特别关注社区学院和中学的农业技术教育。 16个AgrowKnowledge社区学院合作伙伴和他们当地的中学课程，一个由五名成员组成的大学理事会和一个活跃的行业理事会共享21世纪世纪农业技术教育的愿景，来自不同背景的学生：1. 追求严谨，高质量的农业，食品和自然资源（AFNR）课程，强调技术，数学和科学技能; 2。 在中学、社区学院和大学之间建立一个无缝衔接的教育体系，并制定明确的衔接计划; 3. 从大学毕业，为充满活力和日益技术化的劳动力做好充分准备。该中心的智力价值在于其努力扩大课程和教师的发展，并使科学，数学和技术制度化，成为学生学习农业技术教育的一个组成部分。 通过将大学理事会作为联盟的一部分，AgrowKnowledge增加了一个研究部分，特别是在衔接、招聘、教师教育和技术转让等领域。 他们与工业理事会的参与也有助于验证课程和教学项目，这些项目与科学、数学和技术的国家标准保持一致。 该中心的更广泛的影响是对学生谁，因为他们接触到新兴技术，发现自己更好地准备进入农业职业生涯，无论是承担责任的家庭农场，作为一个行业技术人员工作，或继续他们的教育在农业科学，研究或教育专业学位。 16个AgrowKnowledge合作伙伴与越来越多的社区学院和中学建立了联系。因此，该中心正在为全国各地越来越多的学生和教师制作教育模型、研讨会、课程指南和教学材料。AgrowKnowledge中心的目的是创建支持学生成功的系统;提供综合先进科学，数学和技术技能的课程;并开发使用该课程或增强自己的课程和计划的社区学院教师。 这些活动包括：1. 跟踪学生入学情况，开发招聘工具，包括招聘代表性不足的学生。2. 跟踪选定的社区大学农业学生的数学和科学成绩的变化。3. 扩大16个主要社区学院合作伙伴的积极参与，包括正式招募32个额外的社区学院; 4. 通过建立一个在区域范围内复制讲习班的进程，增加参与教师发展讲习班的教师人数; 5. 通过举办2020年远景规划研究所，加强社区学院与中学和中学后学校以及工商业的伙伴关系，这是一个建立这些伙伴关系和鼓励2+2+2衔接的过程; 6. 为支持在农业中使用新兴技术的研究领域开发课程指南，包括识别和/或开发研究，课程和基于计算机的学习对象的计划。7. 通过网站信息交流中心加强科学、技术和数学课程的复制。 虽然农业教育可能曾经被认为是社区大学系统中不断减少的一部分，但今天有了新的活力，部分原因是AgrowKnowledge成员的努力，他们正在招募新的学生，特别是来自代表性不足的类别，并找到新的方法来激发学生对农业充满希望的未来的兴趣。