1 / 20

Shaping the Future of Agricultural Education

Shaping the Future of Agricultural Education. AGSC 327 Spring 2009. Adapted by Gary Briers and John Hall from. Today’s Learning Objectives. Explain how agricultural education has changed Identify some critical issues facing agricultural education

donal
Download Presentation

Shaping the Future of Agricultural Education

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Shaping the Future of Agricultural Education AGSC 327 Spring 2009 Adapted by Gary Briers and John Hall from

  2. Today’s Learning Objectives • Explain how agricultural education has changed • Identify some critical issues facing agricultural education • Describe how a national agenda is set for agricultural education

  3. First, where have we been?

  4. Challenges in Ag Education • What issues must be addressed to ensure agricultural education has a bright future? • What is the biggest challenge facing agricultural education today? • What group or individuals must we reach and foster support from and with in order for agricultural education to be successful?

  5. The Agricultural Education Program of the Future • Break into learning communities. • Discuss your ideas about the perfect agricultural education program of the future. • (Be creative; be innovative; think big!) • Present to class.

  6. Where are we going?

  7. Ag Education Leadership The National Council for Agricultural Education • NAAE(Ag Teachers) • AAAE(Professors) • NASAE(State Supervisors) • FFA Alumni • FFA Foundation • National FFA • PAS(Post-Secondary) • NYFEA(Young Farmers) Briers was Vice-President in 2002.

  8. “10 x 15” • There will be in operation 10,000 quality ag science programs by 2015 . • All students will be members of the FFA and have a supervised agricultural experience that supports classroom and laboratory instruction.

  9. Wait!!!!!!!!!! Aren’t ag programs community based? Why should we have national plans?

  10. Mile Markers • 1988: publication of a book, Understanding Agriculture: New Directions for Education • No longer focus on production agriculture • Surfacing of “agricultural literacy” • Teaching science through agriculture • FFA should change to reflect thefuture of agricultural education • SOEPs should change to reflect agriculture more broadly (SAEs)

  11. Mile Marker • 1996 • Reinventing Agricultural Education for the Year 2020 (RAE 2020) • Agricultural education from pre-k to adult • Lifelong instruction about agriculture • Agricultural literacy • Establish strategic alliances to ensure success

  12. Agriculture Teachers • Nationally ~11,000 teachers; 7,400 programs • Texas ~1600 teachers; 900 programs • National shortage of TEACHERS (Biggest problem facing ag education) • 35 programs closed in 2001 • Unqualified candidates

  13. Total Ag Teaching Positions

  14. Who Fills Ag Ed Vacancies

  15. Recent Ag Ed Graduates

  16. FFA Membership • 500,823 members in 7,358 programs • 27% Rural – farm • 39% Rural – non farm • 34% Suburban/Urban • 77% Caucasian, not Hispanic • 17% Hispanic • 4% African-American

  17. FFA Activities 1979: 22 National Proficiency Areas 8 Career Development Events Now: 45 National Proficiency Areas (What are they?) 24 Career Development Events (What are they?)

  18. Educational Trends • Accountability • Testing • Reading • Math • Science • College Preparation • Algebra, calculus • Physics, chemistry • Foreign language

  19. Today’s Learning Objectives • Explain how agricultural education has changed • Identify some critical issues facing agricultural education • Describe how a national agenda is set for agricultural education

  20. Test 1 • Mixture of M/C, short answer, & essay • Look at objectives from each lesson

More Related