That ICPA (Aust) advocates to the Commonwealth Minister of Education, the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership(AITSL) and any other relevant stakeholders to ensure that Universities promote teaching students to study elective subjects to gain an Agricultural Teacher specialisation.
There is a significant shortage of teachers who have an agriculture based teaching degree. It has become apparent that many teachers who are teaching ag at schools have no speciality training in the area, however, may have an interest so end up in these positions. There are very few institutions that encourage agriculture based electives in the teacher training degrees. Agriculture is one of Australia’s key industries and needs to be supported in the education sector by teachers who are suitably trained.
