Wednesday, November 27, 2013

SAE Student Success Story #17 - Arizona

SAE is one of the most unique educational tools at our disposal as agriscience educators. SAEs have long standing impact on the lives of students. SAEs are not optional.

Story #17 – Arizona
Special Ed student living in inner-city Tucson(Freshman).  She was placed in our Ag program(Dumped), because after all we are not academic at all and most students usually succeed.  Student was mentally and physically Handicapped do to physical abuse inflicted by her  “drunk” father.  He  picked  her up and threw her against the wall because she was crying; when she was 9 months old.  Anyhow, this student had a little “Chihuahua “ dog and this was to be her SAE.  Mind you, this student had never been asked to do anything at all, because no one expected her to succeed at anything.  Well let me share with you the power of  SAE, FFA, and inclusion.  This student  was a 7 year student of our program raised 6 market lambs and sold at our county fair, learned and recited the creed at our parent-member banquet her senior year, and is now self sufficient and has a job-lives alone nonetheless!!!

Submitting Teacher: Mr. Jose Bernal

SAE Theorem #15 (Moore, 2003, The Agricultural Education Magazine)
Teachers should think outside of the box in regards to what constitutes a SAE program. In the early days of SAE, the federal official determined what constituted a valid SAE. Most of us are familiar with the “traditional” types of SAE such as entrepreneurship and placement. However, we should be open to other types of experiential learning activities. Conducting agricultural research or carrying out an in-depth investigation of an agricultural issues and preparing a series of newspaper articles or a video about the issue may be just as educational, if not more, than raising as show lamb.


You are a developing positive agent of change who will one day help students explore and grow into their unlimited potential through agricultural education!

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