Agriculture Education, 5-12 Secondary, BS

Professional Education Core Requirements

Candidates for an initial teaching license must complete a major in Birth-Grade 3: Inclusive Settings, a major in Elementary Education, a major in Instructional Strategist II: Behavior Disorders/ Learning Disabilities/Intellectual Disabilities, or a major in a secondary teaching subject area. Candidates must complete the approved professional education core courses.

Program Student Learning Outcomes

• Considers Contextual Factors: The teacher uses information about the learning-teaching context and student individual differences to set learning outcomes and plan instruction and assessment.
• Identifies Learning Outcomes: The teacher sets significant, challenging, varied, and appropriate learning outcomes.
• Establishes Assessment Plan: The teacher uses multiple assessment modes and approaches aligned with learning outcomes to assess student learning before, during, and after instruction.
• Creates Design for Instruction: The teacher designs instruction for specific learning outcomes, student characteristics and needs, and learning contexts
• Makes Instructional Decisions: The teacher uses ongoing analysis of student learning to make instructional decisions.
• Analyzes Student Learning: The teacher uses assessment data to profile student learning and communicate information about student progress and achievement.
• Reflects and Evaluates Professional Practices: The teacher analyzes the relationship between his or her instruction and student learning to improve teaching practice.

Required Courses within the Major

• EDU 30011 - Teaching Secondary School Agriculture 3 Credit(s)

NICC Courses

• AGA 114 - Principles of Agronomy 3 Credits
• AGB 330 - Farm Business Management 3 Credits
• AGP 333 - Precision Farming Systems 3 Credits
• AGS 101 - Working with Animals 2 Credits
• AGS 114 - Survey of the Animal Industry 2 Credits
• AGS 319 - Animal Nutrition 3 Credits
• GIS 111 - Introduction to Geographic Information Systems 3 Credits

Total Credits: 72-74