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Impact Report

For plan Integrated Pest Management Systems
Date December 21, 2007, 6:03 pm
For Objective Medium-term Show medium-term objectives
Impact Report 1) Students in beginner Ornamental and Turf certification workshops endure a day of instruction in a variety of subjects pertinent to passing their licensing exam. While the class I teach deals solely with arthropods, some of the other course work uses the same concepts of IPM and some of the same arthropods as casual examples for these concepts. This allows reinforcement for students, a chance for them to demonstrate recall of important subject matter likely to be covered in their licensing exam and an opportunity to link the presentation in entomology with subject matter covered in other lectures covering other pest groups. This area is still under development but could lead to a “recap quiz” for participants at the end of the day so they can get a “feel” for the exam they will take and how much effort it will require to pass it. 2)Returning Master Gardeners (year 2 and beyond) routinely report an increase of at least 10% in their confidence levels for arthropod identification, given 5 key arthropod pests they are likely to encounter in their landscapes. At least 70% of returning Master Gardeners can correctly identify a thorough and accurate definition of Integrated Pest Management and successfully identify three or more IPM methods/procedures for dealing with certain insect pests. To provide teachers with tangible evidence of student listening and learning, age-appropriate activity sheets will be developed to complement entomology displays and presentations as they address educational standards and benchmarks. 3)In the Agent-Specialist planning sessions for 2007, agents in the Northern District identified urban/structural pests as subject matter for continued education for themselves and clientele. Some of these creatures as well as turf and ornamentals arthropods will be subjects of “news notes” distributed electronically and perhaps as pod casts to agents and others in 2008.