Tactical Agriculture-TAg Workshop Plan Book

Getting Started I. What are your expectations for this workshop?

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Educational Philosophy

What is your educational philosophy (From the Survey)?

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Needs Assessment and Preparing Program Objectives

Targeting Audiences Worksheet

Program Title: ______

Primary Audiences ______

Secondary Audiences ______

Tertiary Audiences ______

What are the needs of the audience selected? 1.______

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3. ______Objectives:

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What sources of information are available to use with your audiences?

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What sources of information will have to be developed? 1. ______

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Identifying Collaborators

1. Leadership in Official Positions

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2. Local Farm Organizations Leaders

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3. Potential Resource Providers (Subject Matter Specialist, other educators, etc.) ______

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4. Existing Networks That Might Be Drawn Upon

______Writing Outcome Objectives What are the Intended Educational Outcomes?

Educational Outcome Type Audiences or learners (Use all that Apply) Knowledge Gains (Factual Information)

Attitude Changes (What will they believe/feel different about?)

Skill Development (What specific activities or functions will they be able to carry out with them?)

Aspirations (What changes will they want to make after participating?)

Behavioral/Practice Changes (What different behaviors or practices will they adopt?)

Long-Term/End Results (What longer-term, out comes will result?)

Identify Core Ingredients:

1. Specific audience: ______

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2. Intended Outcomes ______

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3. Criteria or indicators for measuring results: ______

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Re-write 1-3 in sentence form ______

______Grading your Objectives

Did you avoid:

□ mixing outcome and process objectives (words like: conduct, teach, develop, offer, provide, inform, often earmark process objective)

□ using vague terms without defining indicators. (Phrases like, increase understanding, will appreciate, will support are hard to interpret and assess without further specification.)

Did you use:

□ specific, observable, or measurable results as the focus of your objectives whenever possible. Indicate what the target audience will know, fell differently about, aspire to, be able to do, and/or actually do as a result of your efforts. (words like increase, reduce, adopt, terminate demonstrate, apply, use, often indicate you are on the right tract) Designing your own Teaching Modules

-What subject matter is needed to be taught to your audience?

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Are there already teaching modules developed that cover this information?

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5. Teaching Module Template

Title of Teaching Module

Overview

Concept Activity Handouts

Resources: Related Modules: ACTIVITY # 1: ______

Setting Time Required Materials Handouts

Q: Pose a series of questions: A: Hands-on Activity

Hands on activity How to Affect Change with the Audience in a TAg format

-What environment enhances your audience’s ability to learn? 1.

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We will develop worksheets for individual reflection and group response?

How do you envision the structure of your TAg program? Small Group Dynamics What will you do to assist TAg groups in moving to the "Perform" stage?

What steps will you take to enhance the learning environments of the groups?

The physical environment? ______

The psychological environment? ______

The social environment? ______

The cultural environment? ______Evaluation and Impacts 1. How might you benefit from collection of evaluation data?

2. What specific evaluation questions need to be answered?

3. Who are the primary stakeholders for your TAg program (persons affected by or with an interest in your program)? Use chart below.

4. Check off the “levels of evidence” about your program that each stakeholder needs or would be most interested in (from Bennett’s Heirarch).

Input Activity Involve. Learner KASA Practice End Stakeholders Data Data Data Reactions Changes Results Learners

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4. How will you use evaluation data that is collected? Specify audiences, format, and uses.