AAQEP Accreditation 2022
Standard 4 Aspect C
The program is committed to and invests in strengthening and improving the education profession and the P-20 education system. Each program’s context (or multiple contexts) provides particular opportunities to engage the field’s shared challenges and to foster and support innovation. Engagement with critical issues is essential and must be contextualized. Sharing results of contextualized engagement and innovation supports the field’s collective effort to address education’s most pressing challenges through improvement and innovation.
Program Completer Support:
The Agricultural Education faculty at Fresno State regularly collaborate with the
California Department of Education (CDE) Agricultural Education’s State Director and
Regional Consultants, along with representatives of each of the four other institutions
of higher education that grant the Agriculture Specialist Credential, to provide new
and experienced teachers with multiple support activities each year. Our faculty are
involved and contribute in the planning and delivery of regional and state-wide teacher
in-service programs provided by the CDE and the California Agricultural Teachers Association
(CATA). Our faculty attend two meetings each year with the CDE Ag Education staff
and university teacher education program representatives. During these meetings participants
discuss previous year’s evaluation data, discuss the in-service needs of our completers,
and recommend professional and technical skill training needed by our teachers regionally
and statewide. There are multiple conferences and in-service trainings that are provided
annually by CDE and CATA. The most relevant for our completers are the New Professionals
Conference (CDE), Fall Regional Roadshows/In-service (CDE), and the CATA Annual Conference/Professional
Development Sessions.
Program Completer Follow-up:
The Agricultural Education program conducts follow-up surveys of all new program completers
and their school site administrators. The purpose of the completer survey is to evaluate
the effectiveness of the program including technical and professional coursework from
the program completer’s perspective. Simultaneously, the employer survey is conducted
to evaluate the school site administrators' perceptions of their new teacher’s level
of preparedness to complete the duties required within their program. These two surveys
are usually conducted every five years, however no data was collected in 2017. Survey
results are available for 2012 and 2021 for both the New Completers and Employer surveys,
links to the results summarizes can be found in Appendix B.