Agri Extension
Agri Extension
Quirino Stadium, Zone V, Bantay, Ilocos Sur, ISCC Barangay Demo Farm
Philippines 2727 Campus
Tel. No. (077) 604-0285 Barangay Labnig, San Juan,
e-mail address: [email protected] Ilocos Sur
I. COURSE DESCRIPTION
ILOCOS SUR COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Quirino Stadium, Zone V, Bantay, Ilocos Sur, ISCC Barangay Demo Farm
Philippines 2727 Campus
Tel. No. (077) 604-0285 Barangay Labnig, San Juan,
e-mail address: [email protected] Ilocos Sur
The course is intended to orient the students with concept of extension communication and its
importance in Agriculture development and also to expose students with various rural
development programmes aimed at poverty alleviation and to increase employment
opportunities and their analysis. Besides, the students will be learning about the new innovations
being brought into the Agricultural Extension and Communication in various sectors.
V. COURSE POLICIES
a. The mode of delivery for this subject will be a combination of offline (modules) and online.
The course package contains necessary information needed in this subject. To enhance further
your learning, there will be pre-recorded lectures uploaded in our virtual classroom;
b. You must follow the study schedule set for this subject for you to be properly guided and to
maintain your progress;
c. You are allowed to have your own pacing in reading the module and other reading materials
but please be reminded that there are some activities that requires you to meet deadlines and
submit your home-based tasks on time;
d. You are free to utilize reading materials online or printed books to enhance your learning;
e. You are advised to frequently check on the virtual classroom and to the group chat for any
update on learning activities given by the instructor;
f. A learning package containing the Course guide, study guide, assignment/activity guides, &
assessment guide will be uploaded in the virtual classroom and will also be given in printed
forms/digital format
g. Make-up exams will only be given for excused absences (Doctor’s excuse, obituary, etc.)
deemed valid at my discretion. Make-up exams will not be given without written can send
via online notification prior to the exam by the student and approval from the instructor. I am
under no obligation to provide the student with the opportunity to make-up exams due to
unexcused absences. Make-up exams will not be the same exam given to the rest of the class.
h. Lecture Exams/Final: There will be two exams during the semester (100 points each). The
second will occur during your scheduled final time. Exams will assess your understanding of
the factual material as well as your ability to understand meaning and context and to
synthesize information from more than one lecture. Exams will typically (but not always)
consist of definitions and concepts, short answer and two major essays. Please note, you will
only have the regularly scheduled class time to complete exams. This may apply to all learners
i. Quizzes: There will be a total of several lab quizzes throughout the semester. Each quiz will be
in practical form where you will be asked to identify specimens. They are worth 50 points
each. The lowest score will be dropped. Spelling will count. If I cannot understand your
answer for any reason, points will be deducted even if you believe it is correct. You are
permitted to write whatever you want in your field guide but you ONLY permitted to use
that guide during the quiz. There will be NO MAKE-UP quizzes given, even upon
presentation of a valid excuse. If you miss the quiz, you will receive zero credit for that quiz.
j. All assignments and other requirements MUST be submitted ON TIME. Late submissions
will still be admitted provided that the learner will give acceptable/justifiable reason, but will
have a corresponding point deduction;
k. All tasks requiring an individual output MUST be done INDIVIDUALLY;
l. For group projects, it is the responsibility of each learner to get in touch with their
groupmates;
m. Each of you must respect the views and opinions of everyone and practice proper netiquettes;
n. CHEATING is considered a MORTAL SIN. Any form of cheating will not be tolerated.
Copy-pasted works without proper citation of the author will be rejected. You will be given
only 1 chance to redo your output, otherwise you will be marked failed for that activity;
ILOCOS SUR COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Quirino Stadium, Zone V, Bantay, Ilocos Sur, ISCC Barangay Demo Farm
Philippines 2727 Campus
Tel. No. (077) 604-0285 Barangay Labnig, San Juan,
e-mail address: [email protected] Ilocos Sur
o. Learners who failed to submit requirements on time will be marked INCOMPLETE for the
final grade, but will be given a chance to submit their lacking within 1 semester only. Failure
to do so will make them failed from the class;
p. Learners who were able to submit all requirements and taken all the quizzes and exams but
still did not gain a passing grade are marked CONDITIONAL and will be given a
requirement/task to complete to determine if she/he will be able to pass the course;
Consultation time with your instructor is strictly done during working hours only, 8am to
5pm from Monday to Friday. Queries and other matters that concerns the subject will only be
entertained during the specified time and day.
VI. OUTLINE OF TOPICS
Information sheet 1: CLIENTS OF EXTENSION
Information sheet 2: THE CHALLENGE OF EXTENSION
A. Extension as an Intervention
B. Difference between Technical Intervention and Intervening
through People
C. Methods for Influencing Human Behavior
A. What is Philosophy?
B. Philosophical qualities of Education
C. Structure of Philosophy
D. Principles of Extension
E. Scope OF Extension
A. Communication
B. Communication as Interaction
C. Concept of Communication
D. Basic Communication Process
E. Attributes of Communication as a process
Week 11-13 EXTENSION APPROACH
A. Community Elements
B. Community Characteristics
C. Community Organization
D. Organizing Approaches
E. Some Approaches to Rural change
VIII. STUDY GUIDE
To guide the learners to go along the course package, these icons were used to represent learning
activities that goes along the learning process:
this icon represents the references made used for the contents of this course
package;
this icon represents an information sheet containing the topic/lesson that the
ILOCOS SUR COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Quirino Stadium, Zone V, Bantay, Ilocos Sur, ISCC Barangay Demo Farm
Philippines 2727 Campus
Tel. No. (077) 604-0285 Barangay Labnig, San Juan,
e-mail address: [email protected] Ilocos Sur
this icon represents important information the learners have to take note of;
this icon represents the set date for deadlines of submission for a certain
requirement;
this icon represents the learning objectives for the content/s of the course
package;
this icon represents the study schedule recommended for the content/s of
this course package including all the learning activities embedded in each
information sheet;
this icon is used to represent all learner’s guides (course guide, activity
guides, assessment guides, study guides) that shall help them accomplish
this course package;
Information sheet 1:
ILOCOS SUR COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Quirino Stadium, Zone V, Bantay, Ilocos Sur, ISCC Barangay Demo Farm
Philippines 2727 Campus
Tel. No. (077) 604-0285 Barangay Labnig, San Juan,
e-mail address: [email protected] Ilocos Sur
CLIENTS OF EXTENSION
LEARNING ACTIVITIES
1. Read and understand information sheet 1 containing Clients of Extension.
2. Watch the pre-recorded video/audio lecture regarding the Clients of Extension that has
been uploaded in our virtual classroom for your additional reference.
Clients of Extension
Adult Learners:
Farmers or the women and men in agriculture and fishery
Out-of-school youth
Communities/ Organizations
Who is an adult?
Psychological definition:
- “A person is an adult to the extent that he or she perceives himself or herself to
be essentially responsible for his or her own life.”
Sociological definition:
- “An individual is a person who has come to the stage of his life in which he or
she has assumed full responsibility for himself and usually for others, and who
has concomitantly accepted functionally productive roles in his community.”
1. Resource-poor
2. Most neglected in terms of basic services such extension, health, roads, markets
3. Poor access to information and technology options
4. Inappropriate farming/fishery practices
5. Typically individualistic (not interested to join organizations)
6. Dole-out oriented (due to experiences in past program/project approaches)
7. Rural, remote and exposed to peace and order problems
8. Have varied land tenure/arrangements issue
9. Have varied experiences in projects that have come and gone without sustaining
ILOCOS SUR COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Quirino Stadium, Zone V, Bantay, Ilocos Sur, ISCC Barangay Demo Farm
Philippines 2727 Campus
Tel. No. (077) 604-0285 Barangay Labnig, San Juan,
e-mail address: [email protected] Ilocos Sur
WHO IS AN ADULT?
Examples:
o Teachers
o Farmers
o Parents
o Extension Agents
o Policemen
o Priests
o Health workers
Teaching
- The art of changing people’s behavior by facilitating the learning process for
them.
Learning
- RELATIVELY PERMANENT CHANGE in behavior brought about by
PRACTICE.
ANDRAGOGY vs. PEDAGOGY
Andragogy
- The art and sciences of helping adults learn.
- Used originally in 1833 by Alexander Kapp, a German educator.
- Developed into a theory of adult education by MALCOLM KNOWLES, an
American educator. Most adult learning theories have been based on his work.
- Built upon two central, defining attributes:
o Learners are self-directed and autonomous;
ILOCOS SUR COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Quirino Stadium, Zone V, Bantay, Ilocos Sur, ISCC Barangay Demo Farm
Philippines 2727 Campus
Tel. No. (077) 604-0285 Barangay Labnig, San Juan,
e-mail address: [email protected] Ilocos Sur
Pedagogy
- The art and science of teaching children.
gratification;
learning must be relevant
and immediately applicable
LEARNING ACTIVITIES
DISCUSSION FORUM: for the benefit of interacting with your fellow classmates, a discussion
board has been created in our virtual classroom with guide questions where you are required to
comment your insight regarding the topic. Please refer to the attached discussion forum guide at the
end of this module for the complete instruction and how you will be evaluated
ILOCOS SUR COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Quirino Stadium, Zone V, Bantay, Ilocos Sur, ISCC Barangay Demo Farm
Philippines 2727 Campus
Tel. No. (077) 604-0285 Barangay Labnig, San Juan,
e-mail address: [email protected] Ilocos Sur
Information sheet 2:
LEARNING ACTIVITIES
1. Read and understand information sheet 2 containing the challenge of extension education.
2.Watch the pre-recorded video/audio lecture regarding the challenge of extension education.
The following areas of concern pose challenges to the extension delivery system:
B. Ecological Zones. In the Philippines, there are different ecological zones like the lowland
rainfed, and upland hilly, mountainous and coastal areas. An extension worker should
know the characteristics of these zones so as to be better prepared to give assistance to the
people in terms of agricultural and fisheries production projects.
C. The culture of people. Understanding the culture of people is one requisite to successful
extension work. Research results and technology which are good for one culture may not
be acceptable to people with another culture.
D. Problems of the people. Among the problems which must be given attention by the
extension workers are rapid population growth, poverty, low productivity in agriculture
and fisheries, unemployment, underemployment, inadequate basic services.
ILOCOS SUR COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Quirino Stadium, Zone V, Bantay, Ilocos Sur, ISCC Barangay Demo Farm
Philippines 2727 Campus
Tel. No. (077) 604-0285 Barangay Labnig, San Juan,
e-mail address: [email protected] Ilocos Sur
Making the youth busy in their farms and homes by engaging in productive
enterprises will reduce migration to cities or urban areas where most prostitution problems
occur.
Advocating entrepreneurial projects and training the people to become
entrepreneurs may lessen underemployment and unemployment problems thus contribute
to economic productivity of the nation.
Our experiences and consolation in working with the people in the barangays; in
cooperation and partnership with national government agencies, local government units,
non-government organizations; in teaching undergraduate and graduate students of
agriculture and fishery courses, extension education and rural development as well as in
training and communicating with people who belong to different sectors in our society
inspire us to write a book on extension.
LEARNING ACTIVITIES
DISCUSSION FORUM: for the benefit of interacting with your fellow classmates, a discussion
board has been created in our virtual classroom with guide questions where you are required to
comment your insight regarding the topic. Please refer to the attached discussion forum guide at the
end of this module for the complete instruction and how you will be evaluated
IX.ACTIVITY GUIDE
(Instructions/guidelines/procedures in performing each learning activity intended to assess
learning of all students are completely explained in this area)
1. DISCUSSION FORUM GUIDE
GUIDELINES
Discussion forum is an electronic message boards for asynchronous communication regarding the
concepts being tackled in our class. You are expected to post your thoughts in a conversational
tone.
i. I will be posting guide questions for discussion in our virtual classroom.
You are expected to post at least twice to thrice on each forum. Your first
post will an answer for the guide question, and you are also encouraged to
respond or react to the postings of your classmates;
ii. Discussion forums are intended for conversations about our topic, you are
expected to be at your modest when interacting with each other. Postings
that are out of the topics gives the learner a deduction point;
iii. Remember that when you post your comments/reactions, you must respect
the opinions of your classmates and to always have proper netiquette when
conversing with each other;
iv. Please refrain from copy-pasting works of others. You can use them as your
reference then summarize the idea/thought but make sure to properly cite
your sources;
v. Be guided by the rubric to be uploaded in the virtual classroom for the
assessment of your participation.
RUBRICS:
CRITERIA 4 3 2 1
ILOCOS SUR COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Quirino Stadium, Zone V, Bantay, Ilocos Sur, ISCC Barangay Demo Farm
Philippines 2727 Campus
Tel. No. (077) 604-0285 Barangay Labnig, San Juan,
e-mail address: [email protected] Ilocos Sur
3. ACTIVITY GUIDE
i. Your activity/assessment test on this chapter will be uploaded at our
google classroom
ii. The activity/assessment test will be posted at google classroom 2 days
before the end of your scheduled time of chapter discussion and reading
(ex. The chapter will be 2 weeks scheduled (Oct. 25-Nov. 5) the
activity/assessment test
iii. Will be posted on Nov. 4 at 8:00 am and it will be scheduled to closed
automatically at Nov. 5 at 11:59 PM.
RUBRICS:
CRITERIA 4 3 2 1
X. ASSESSMENT GUIDE
(Performance of learners will be graded as the following assessment percentage presented below)
LECTURE CLASS STANDING 60%
Discussion forum
Journal
Narrative report
LABORATORY:
LABORATORY PERFORMANCE: 60%
Video recorded demonstration
GRADING SYSTEM:
a. MIDTERM GRADE:
Class standings = 60%
Major Exam = 40%
ILOCOS SUR COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Quirino Stadium, Zone V, Bantay, Ilocos Sur, ISCC Barangay Demo Farm
Philippines 2727 Campus
Tel. No. (077) 604-0285 Barangay Labnig, San Juan,
e-mail address: [email protected] Ilocos Sur
*** FINAL GRADE =Mid. Grade (40%) + Tentative Final grade (60%)
XI. REFERENCES