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Publication Date: 2022
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Aligning Instruction with Extension Professional Competencies for an Enhanced Undergraduate Extension Education Minor
Joseph L. Donaldson; Wendy Warner; Jacklyn Bruce; Joy Morgan; Harriett Coleman Edwards; Rose Vaughan
Journal of Human Sciences & Extension, v10 n3 2022
This paper reports on a three-year initiative to enhance the undergraduate Extension Education minor at a state land-grant university. Specific initiatives to improve the undergraduate Extension Education minor curriculum involved (a) revising the Extension Education minor due to varied curriculum and faculty changes and (b) aligning eight Extension Education courses' units of study with Extension professional competency domains. The described processes helped understand the Extension Education curriculum by mapping competency domains and showing which domains were and were not taught in the eight courses. A key recommendation is to incorporate the alignment of Extension Education curriculum and Extension professional competencies into the Extension summer internship program, among other uses. Furthermore, it is recommended that faculty engage in a similar effort to map college curricula to professional competencies to ensure that academic minors have a clear purpose in preparing students for careers.
Descriptors: Extension Education, Land Grant Universities, Undergraduate Students, Instructional Development, Teacher Competencies, Curriculum Development, Course Selection (Students), Degree Requirements, Summer Programs, Internship Programs, Career Readiness, Education Work Relationship
School of Human Sciences, Mississippi State University. PO Box 9745, Mississippi State, MS 39762. Tel: 662-325-6861; Fax: 662-325-8188; e-mail: jhse@ext.msstate.edu; Web site: https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/jhse/
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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