Chapter 6 Flashcards
Agricultural extension (83 cards)
process of transmitting ideas, information, technologies, from one person to
another with the intent of enhancing/modefying the learner’s knowledge, attitudes,
and/or skills
Teaching
Refers to the systematic procedure employed by extension worker in getting the vital
information across the client-learners. It includes everything one does or refrain to do
which causes behavioral changes in the individual learner
Method
Refers to the art and skills of performance. This will involve the use of action or gestures,
changing facial expressions to depict different moods, varying voice, pitch, tempo and
timbre.
Techniques
Is a “little method”. It is a teaching aid or a tool used to facilitate instruction. It is any
means, usually concrete, used to make the instruction better, meaningful and more
interesting.
Device
Factors to consider in choosing teaching
methods to use?
Human factor
The objective
Subject matter
Available materials and facilities
Time consideration
Available budget support
are statements of what clientele will be able to do after the learning
proces
The objective
Time given to the extension worker to present subject matter, time of the day or
even the load time to of one to prepare the materials needed for the learning
activity.
Time consideration
The clienteles may include the farmers, homemakers, the out-of-school
youth and the enterpreneurs, among others
The client-learners
Knowledge, attitudes and experience are all factors of primary importance.
The extension worker must be credible, that is acceptable and believable
to the clientele groups.
The extension worker as a teacher
Human factor
The extension worker as a teacher
The client-learners
Classification of the Extension Teaching
Methods
Individual contact
Group contact
Mass contact
Like lecture, method demonstration meeting, group discussion, field trip, seminarsworkshop, conferences, role-playing, panel
Group contact
Farm and home visit, office call, telephone correspondence and result
demonstration
Individual contact
Radio, television, print-media fairs, field days, and exhibit.
Mass contact
involve
interpersonal
interaction
between
the extension worker
and
clientele
either in the farm
or home of the
later
Farm and home visits
The face to face
contact
between
the
extension
worker and the
clientele gives the former the
opportunity to
know the latter
and / or get
first-hand
information
about
the
condition of his
crop/livestock
project.
Characteristics of farm and home visits
this method is the
reverse of
both
farm/ home visit
and office call as it
lacks the personal
or
face-to-face
contact
vetween
the
extension
worker and the
clientele.
Telephone calls
•Limited
application
as
not
all
have
telephone
lines/ cell sites.
• Expensive for it
requires
telephones
Weak points of telephone calls
this is the reverse
of the farm and
home visit as the
clientele is the one
who goes to the
extension
office
and
seek
for
technical
assistance
or
information from
the
extension workers
Office calls
The clientele is
the one that
pays a visit to
the
extension
office/ worker
in his offic
Characteristics of office calls
An
extension
worker can also
make
use
of
business letters in
transmitting
important
information
Letters
This is a method of
teaching
usually
conducted in the
farmer’s
field
involving
the
cooperation of a
selected
cooperator
whereby
a
component
technology.
Results demonstration
An interaction between several number of individuals and engage in a
lively exchange of ideas about a specific topic
Group method
Is a prepared oral presentation on a given subject by a trainer or a resource person
while the audience is usually passive, i.e. simply taking notes or just listening
Lectures
