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On-Line Pesticide Safety Training

This page revised on

March 21, 2008

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INDOOR PESTS

Active Learning in the Classroom

Measuring Behavior Adoption among Applicators

Active Learning

  • Wake up your Audience with Active Learning
    Directions on how to use the educational technique, Active Learning, in the classroom.
  • Straight Talk about Minimizing Spray Drift Worksheet
    Worksheet for trainees to fill out while watching the Spray Drift Task Force video.
  • IPM in Action
    Problem solving activity on IPM.
  • How Safe is Your Pesticide Storage Facility?
    A lesson plan with a set of jpg images for you to copy and insert into a power point presentation.
  • How can you Protect the Environment?
    A 2-minute "Think-Pair-Share" for use with the Ohio State slide show.
  • FQPA:  How does EPA Register Pesticides?
    Two 2-minute "Think-Pair-Share" for use with the Penn State video.
  • Be Safe with Pesticides!  Read the Label. A lesson plan on understanding the label for Turf & Ornamental and Agriculture.
  • Be Safe with Pesticides! Safety Training for Technicians. A lesson plan for Pest Management Professionals and Structural Pest Control Technicians
  • Be Safe with Pesticides! Read the label Train-the-Trainer Manual
  • Be Safe with Pesticides! Read the label Training Manual

A set of training manuals for teaching Extension Master Gardeners the educational technique of Active Learning using a lesson on pesticide label comprehension as an example.  County Agents & Specialists who work with Master Gardeners deliver the lessons in the "Extension County Agents & Specialists Train-the-Trainer Manual"   while Master Gardeners use the "Extension Master Gardeners Training Manual."

PESTICIDE REGULATION


Behavior Adoption

  • Measuring Adoption of New Drift-Reduction Practices among Pesticide Applicators as a Result of training. This paper presents the results of a study to measure behavior change.
  • Validation of an Instrument to Measure Behavior Change as a Result  of Pesticide Applicator Training. This paper presents the validation of the instrument used in the above training manuals for Active Learning.
  • Planning and Evaluating Educational Programs to Increase Adoption  of Safety Practices among Pesticide Applicators. This manual discuss the process of evaluation and gives three methods for measuring behavior change as a result of training.

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