Turning a Teacher's Aide Into an Agricultural Education Teacher

摘要

If agricultural education is going to achieve 10,000 quality secondary programs by the year 2015, it will need to recruit and develop many new teachers. These teachers will replace those who will leave the profession and staff the estimated 4,000 newpositions that will be added by the 10x15 initiative. Currently, theprofession is experiencing a shortage in new agricultural education teachers. To end the shortage and achieve the increase in teachers stimulated by the 10x15 initiative, agricultural educators are challenged to think of new recruitment and development strategies.