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Agricultural Education at Clemson
The agricultural education program provides you with the knowledge and skills to become an advocate and educator. To prepare your future students for college and careers, you will learn exciting ways to teach agriculture.
In our agricultural education courses, you will have the opportunity to take the knowledge you receive from your other classes and learn exciting ways to teach that material to your future students. With a heavy emphasis on inquiry-based and laboratory instruction, agricultural education courses at Clemson University are highly interactive, and our extensive resources mean that your opportunities are endless.
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Teaching Agriculture is a Great Lifestyle!
Teaching agriculture allows you to share your passion for the industry with the next generation. You will be able to create hands-on lessons to explore topics in animal science, horticulture, mechanics, and many others. Clemson University is the best place to prepare you for a career in agricultural education. Majoring in agricultural education here allows you to experience a diverse curriculum, taking courses in plant science, agricultural mechanics, animal science, and education.
Why we need you to teach AGED!!!
Agricultural educators are in high demand. The demand for agricultural education teacher in South Carolina continues to grow annually due to program growth, expansion, retirements and new middle and high school programs.
School districts in South Carolina value the agricultural education model of rigorous STEM based classroom and laboratory instruction, experiential learning, and leadership development.
Agricultural education teachers prepare students with the skills needed to move on to postsecondary education and become productive citizens to enter the workforce. South Carolina agriculture and forestry has an annual economic impact of $41.7 billion and supports 212, 000 careers in the state. Nationally, South Carolina is 2nd in peach, 5th in peanut, 6th in tobacco, 8th in pecan and 9th in tomato production.
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