Finding Aid for Teaching Material Units & Instruction Materials, 1946-2016 | University of Illinois Archives

Title: Teaching Material Units & Instruction Materials, 1946-2016

ID: 8/14/804

Primary Creator: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Vocational Agricultural Service

Extent: 2.3 cubic feet

Arrangement: By type and series number

Subjects: Course Materials, Vocational Agriculture

Languages: English

Printed teaching units (1946), subject matter units and teaching aids, including test forms and "scrambled" booklets in the fields of animal science (VAS 100, 1000 series), Agricultural Economics (VAS 200, 2000 series), Agricultural Mechanics (VAS 300, 3000), Crop and Soil Science (VAS 400, 4000) and Rural Sociology (500 series), prepared by staff members in Vocational Agriculture Service for use in high school vocational agriculture classes.  The series includes Better Farming lesson units (1946-47), visual charts adapted from the USDA Handbook of Agricultural Charts (1968) and vocational education units. Also contains records from the office of David K. Wilson, ITCS.

The Board of Trustees submitted an application to the Illinois Board of Vocational Education on February 16, 1918 for approval of plans to maintain teacher-training courses in agriculture in accordance with the Federal Smith-Hughes Act.¹ The University Register initially listed this curriculum under the College of Agriculture in 1918² and under both the College of Agriculture and the newly-organized College of Education in 1919.³ With the advice of the Federal Vocational Board a revision of the curriculum took place in 1941 which rearranged the existing courses, added one new course, and mitigated the unsatisfactory flexibility of the old General Agriculture curriculum.⁴ In 1945 the Trustees approved another revision which included a new degree of Master of Science in Vocational Agriculture⁵ and empowered a Vocational Agricultural Committee appointed by the University Council on Teacher Education to adminster and supervise the program.⁶ In 1951 the Trustees approved new names for the degrees in Vocational Agriculture: Bachelor of Science in Agriculture and Master of Science in Agricultural Education.⁷ In 1960 the Trustees approved minors in general science and biology for students of Vocational Agriculture.⁸ In order to meet a change in the Illinois State Board of Vocational Education requirements, another revision of the curriculum took place in 1962.⁹

1. Board of Trustees Transactions, 29th Report, February 16, 1918, pp. 647-48.

2. Annual Register 1918-1919, pp. 153, 164.

3. Annual Register 1919-1920, pp. 66, 168; Board of Trustees Transactions, 29th Report, June 1, 1918, p. 758.

4. Board of Trustees Transactions, 41st Report, April 17, 1941, pp. 240-41.

5. Ibid., 43rd Report, July 3, 1945, pp. 539-40.

6. Ibid., June 30, 1945, pp. 512-13.

7. Ibid., 46th Report, October 23, 1951, p. 1255.

8. Ibid., 50th Report, May 17, 1960, p. 1279.

9. Ibid., 51st Report, January 11, 1962, pp. 1262-63.

Course Materials
Vocational Agriculture

Repository: University of Illinois Archives

Accruals: 9/1963; 4/1965; 5/1970; 5/2024

URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/uasfa/0814804.pdf

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