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AEE 500 Agricutural
Education, Schools & Society |
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Course Description: AEE 500 Agricultural Education, Schools & Society. The role and structure of modern agricultural education within the overall educational system. School organization and governance, curriculum, teacher roles and responsibilities, educational philosophy and history, multiculturalism, special need students, impact of technology, professionalism, and current educational trends and issues.
Course Goals: The overall objective of this course is to equip learners with an in-depth knowledge of the structure and organization of modern agricultural education as a part of the education system. As a result of taking this course students will be able to: 1. Understand how school systems operate.
Course
Texts:
1. Teachers,
Schools, and Society by Myra Pollack Sadker and David Miller
Sadker 8th edition, 2006 (the 7th, 6th or 5th edition will also work).
Publisher - McGraw Hill. You can find a used version at www.abebooks.com.
2. Handbook
on Agricultural Education in Public Schools by Phipps, Osborne,
Dyer & Ball (6th edition). 2008. Publisher - Thomson Delmar
Learning.
If you are taking the course on-line, you have complete access to the NCSU library. The URL that explains all the library resources available to you is http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/distance/ If you need help logging into the library please contact the course instructor. 1. There will be a mid-term exam. This will cover all the material covered in lessons 1-6. You should take the exam no later than Oct 9. It will count for 20% of the grade. The exams will be predominately multiple choice. This exam will probably be mailed to a proctor that you identify. There is also a possibility the exam will be given online. We are exploring options. 2. There will be a final exam. This will cover all the materials covered in lessons 7-12. It should be completed by December 11. This exam will count for 20% of the grade. 3. Write a 3-5 page paper describing agricultural education in your state. How does agricultural education operate in your state? Some of the points to be covered should include the curriculum taught, types of schools in which programs are offered, number and characteristics of teachers, FFA activities, SAE, state level governance and leadership, and other pertinent points. This will count for 15% of your total grade. You may have to contact some state level agricultural education officials to write this. It is due Dec. 4. 4. Spend 1/2 day shadowing an agriculture teacher. You will
prepare a written report. This activity will count for 10% of the
grade. The report will be due Sept. 25.
The guidelines for
this
assignment can be found at 5. Interview a school administrator. This interview is to focus on the role of agricultural education within the total educational system. Specific guidelines for the interview will be found at http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/agexed/leap/aee500/Principal_Interview.html. You are to prepare a written report. This activity will count for 10% of the grade. It should be completed by Oct. 16. You can probably combine this assignment with the previous assignment. Just arrange an appointment with the principal the day you shadow the teacher. 6. Critically evaluate a school board meeting. The student will prepare a written report. This activity will count for 10% of the grade. This is due by Nov. 20 but you are encouraged to submit it earlier if possible. A lot depends upon when your local school board meets. The report should adhere to the following format: A. Describe the school board meeting. Be sure to answer the following questions:7. Participate in the class. Each week you will be expected to send an e-mail message to other members of the class or post a response to the Moodle web site. The instructor will provide more infomation as to how to respond. The e-mail message or moodle post will be your response to a question posed by the instructor or assignment found in the lesson. You are required to do at least one weekly e-mail response/moodle posting but are highly encouraged to respond to comments made by others. It is hard to carry on a class discussion in a web class, but we will attempt that via e-mail or moodle. The postings should reflect thought. This activity is worth 15% of the grade.1. What were the topics discussed?B. What are your observations and thoughts about the school board meeting?
The breakdown of the grading system is as follows A = 94-96% A- = 90-93% B+ = 87-89% B = 84-86% B- = 80-83% C+ = 77-79% C = 74-76% C- = 70-73% D+ = 67-69% D = 64-66% D- = 60-63% F = 59% Attendance
Policy If you are a web student, there is no
attendance as such. However, you are strongly encouraged to plan a
regular time each week to go to the web site and complete the lesson.
If you don't do this, you will quickly get behind. You may move through
the lessons more rapidly than indicated on the syllabus; but you should
not go slower.
Academic
Integrity : Both
faculty and students at North Carolina State University have a
responsibility to
maintain academic integrity. An informational brochure about academic
integrity
is available from the university and students are encouraged to obtain
a
copy. Additional information is contained in the NCSU Code of Student
Conduct. Academic Dishonesty Scholarly activity is marked by
honesty, fairness and rigor. A scholar does not take credit for the
work of others, does not take unfair advantage of others, and does not
perform acts which frustrate the scholarly efforts of others. The
violation of any of these principles is
academic dishonesty. Academic dishonesty includes the giving,
taking,
or presenting of information or material by a student with the intent
of
unethically or fraudulently aiding one self or another person on any
work
which is to be considered in the determination of a grade or the
completion
of academic requirements.
The Honor Pledge - The students and faculty of NCSU believe that the willingness of students to affirm and adhere to the essential values of honesty and integrity in all their academic endeavors is exemplified in the Honor Pledge: "I have neither given nor received unauthorized aid on this test or assignment." It is university policy that all students sign the Honor Pledge on tests and assignments for each course as specified by the instructor. Laboratory
Safety : This
course does not have a laboratory. However, you will probably be
working on your computer for some of the lessons. Thousands of
computers are damaged each year because of power surges, and most of
these come through the phone line and damage the modem. You are
strongly encouraged to get a modem surge protector and/or to unplug you
computer include the modem/phone connection during
stormy weather.
Students
with Disabilities : Section
504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with
Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 mandate that the faculty provide
reasonable accommodations to students with disabilities. These
accommodations are based on the premise that students with disabilities
need an equal opportunity to acquire information and demonstrate what
they have learned; not have an advantage over others in the
class. This does not mean lowering class standards, but it may
mean having students learn and express knowledge in a different mode.
All
students registered with the NC State Office of Disability Services for
Students
(DSS) will provide the instructor with an accommodation letter. This
letter
verifies that appropriate medical documentation is on file and that the
student has a substantiated disability requiring effective reasonable
accommodations. Accommodations for which the student qualifies will
also be included in
the letter. If you have not registered with the DSS and have a
learning disability, you should register in Suite 1900, Student Health
Center. If you have a documented disability, please schedule an appointment with the course instructor to discuss academic accommodations. 1. Each week you will click on the
class link that corresponds to that week. During week 1 of the class
you will
click on week 1. The dates that correspond with each week are in
parenthesis.
You should complete the lesson some time during that week.
2. When you go the the weekly lesson, you are to first view the learning objectives for the lesson. This is your guide as to what you should learn. 3. Complete the class pretest to get an overview of the lesson for the day. 4. Each week there will be chapters in the course texts to be read. 5. 6. For some classes, there will be a PowerPoint presentation on the lesson topic. When you click the link to the PowerPoint presentation, you will have two options. One option will be to view each slide utilizing your WWW web viewer. The other option will be to download the PowerPoint presentation. If you have PowerPoint on your computer, you may want to download the presentation to your computer, and then open and run the presentation on your computer. This is more time efficient than viewing each slide individually on the WWW. Also, you have the option of printing the slide show and can set your printer to print six slides per page. 7. You should establish a standard time every week to work on this class and then do it. You don't want to get behind because it will be hard to catch up. In a typical on-campus class you would spend 3 hours in the classroom and 6-9 hours reading and doing assignments during a week. This class will take similar time commitments.
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One of the benefits of taking a course on-line
is the opportunity to experience a multitude of varied materials found
on the Internet. Under the list of learning
activities there will be a list of web sites, journal articles, papers
and
other materials to be reviewed. In this class we try to utilize the
power
of the World Wide Web (WWW). You are to visit each site that is listed
under
the learning activities and read or view the materials. For some of the
materials,
You will need to have the Acrobat Reader on your computer. If you don't
have
this program, it can be downloaded for free from