Preparing students for the 21st century workplace through facilitation

摘要

Conduct an Internet search for agricultural careers and you will soon have at your fingertips many corporate and non-profit websites ready to help you navigate through the possibilities for most any type of agricultural career interest. Some of these websites offer you the opportunity to look at certain career areas for the skills needed to be competitive in these specific job markets. Others will link you to research studies conducted to see which skills are most valued in today's industry. When you search for the skills needed in agriculture, you will see the standard academic needs of science, math and reading. But if you take a hard look, you will also see a great number of other terms associated with the twenty-first century view of the agricultural workplace. You would find that today's agricultural workplace also values skills such as deductive reasoning, oral communication, self-confidence, decision-making, management of resources, individual responsibility and the ability to apply hands-on skills with technology and equipment.