Teaching Multiple Cohorts in the Same Classroom

Authors

• Don McMoran, Washington State UniversityFollow

Volume

54

Issue

6

Abstract

Extension serves an increasingly diverse community, with a number of program participants being new farmers, minority farmers, and low-income farmers. Since the 1980s, Washington State University Skagit County Extension has provided a tractor safety course to older youth farmers, aged 12 to 15. In 2010, a nonprofit farm incubator showed interest in having its members participate in the course, and new adult farmers and Latino farmers were introduced into a classroom of older youths. Meeting the needs of these distinct farming cohorts in a single classroom required a multimodal approach, the success of which is replicable in other Extension education programs.

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Recommended Citation

McMoran, D. (2016). Teaching Multiple Cohorts in the Same Classroom. Journal of Extension, 54(6), Article 19. https://doi.org/10.34068/joe.54.06.19