Transcript Class #1 AGSC 405 Facilitating Complete Secondary

Class #1 AGSC 405
Facilitating Complete Secondary
Agricultural Science Programs
Dr. John Rayfield
Mr. Josh Shafer
Introductions
• Who are we?
• Autograph session
Objectives for the day
1. Describe the relationship between classroom
instruction, FFA, and SAE
2. Understand how to be successful in AGSC 405
3. Meet your learning community
4. Take pictures
Agricultural Education & Experiential
Learning
• Historically focused on learning from experience
Learning to do
Doing to learn
Earning to live
Living to serve
• Supervised agricultural experience
Which came first, the chicken or the
egg?
3 Components of a complete
agricultural science program
Classroom
Instruction
SAE
• FFA
AGSC 405 Broad Areas
• Program Planning
▫ How to plan a complete agricultural science
program
• Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE)
▫ How plan and advise student SAE projects
• FFA
▫ How to plan and advise FFA activities
Syllabus
Texts
• Talbert, B.A., Vaughn, R., Croom, D.B. & Lee,
J.S. (2007). Foundations of agricultural
education. Catlin, IL: PEP.
(order online)
• Official FFA Manual (Order from National FFA)
Web Site
• Important information you’ll need throughout
the semester is available on the course web site
▫ http://www.aged.tamu.edu/classes/405/agsc405_index.htm
Learning Communities
• Used to subdivide class into smaller groups
• Same group for entire semester
• Listed on Course Web Site
http://www.aged.tamu.edu/classes/405/agsc_405Learning_Communities.htm
• Break into your learning communities
▫ Introduce yourselves
Pictures
• Helps us (as teachers) quickly learn names and
faces.
• By learning community, we’ll take pictures as
you leave.
Objectives for the day
1. Describe the relationship between classroom
instruction, FFA, and SAE
2. Understand how to be successful in AGSC 405
3. Meet your learning community
4. Take pictures
5. Questions???