Glossary
Extension Educator Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential extension educator terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key extension educator vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in extension educator training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- 4-H
- Youth development program.
- Cooperative extension
- University outreach system.
- County agent
- Local extension educator.
- Crop rotation
- Changing crops each season.
- Diagnostic lab
- Tests plant and soil samples.
- Extension service
- University outreach to farmers.
- Fact sheet
- Short publication.
- Field day
- On-farm demonstration.
- Land-grant university
- University with an extension mission.
- Master Gardener
- Trained volunteer program.
- Needs assessment
- Finding community needs.
- Program evaluation
- Measuring impact.
- Sustainability
- Long-term resource care.
- USDA
- U.S. Department of Agriculture.
- Yield
- Amount harvested.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Extension Educator practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Extension Educator training.
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