Session Two: What are professional expectations?

After a great second session, we left class today equipped with the challenge of pushing ourselves and our students to ask the question "why?" and remain conscious of the status quo. Additionally, we identified reasons that we join organizations, mapped out the remainder of the course, and last but not least started our journey with AET! Let's challenge ourselves to use AET to it's fullest potential, feel free to contact any of us for fun ideas!

Ticket Out Responses Session 2:

• What are we curious about?
• Managing multiple project books in AET
• Under "journal" at the top of the page after logging in,  click "develop your AET experiences" and then "add new." Once your experience is added, you can continue to enter more projects this way.
• How to use the POA to recruit and retain students
• When developing your POA implementation plan, one way to use it as a recruitment tool is to develop your standing committees in a way that is fun and inciting! For example, my implementation plan had very goofy name for each committee. Hold onto this question for our two sessions on POA. If you would like to take a look at my project, let me know!
• If we develop that competition and championship attitude, how can we also cultivate an "other focused mentality"
• Holy cow, this is a good question. I am hoping that Dr. Foster adds this thoughts to this one in the comments, but I would be happy to offer my personal feelings. If you are creating that "championship" mindset, why can't that include being champions of giving back? 
• Why is adolescence viewed negatively?
• Another excellent questions! I definitely don't have the answer, but here are some pretty cool links I found (including some more positive thoughts). Check them out!
• http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/surviving-your-childs-adolescence/201203/early-adolescence-and-the-negative-mindset
• http://soulpancake.com/conversations/view/94714/what-can-adolescence-give-to-the-world-and-what-has-it-given-to-your-life.html
• http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2004/04/14/31good.h23.html
• http://www.instructables.com/answers/Why-do-teenagers-get-such-a-negative-stereotypical/
• How do you keep everyone involved in an organization?
• We have a session dedicated to this in Decemeber!
• Exploring the AET Website and my SAE journal
• Make sure you check out the list provided in your assignment handbook to get a feeling of where to start!
• AET Chapter website
• This is available more so on the advisor features. Personally, I am hoping to get a feel for this as well. I should be people to add students for access to play around with the website. Any students who are interested, please contact me.
•  Percentage of schools that use AET for record keeping.
• I do not know if this number exists, but I can tell you that all states that have affiliation membership for ag education (meaning ALL ag ed students are also FFA members) have access to AET, including Pennsylvania. 

• What did we learn?
• There is a lot more to AET than recordbooks!
• Info about AET
• I learned why students want to join an organization
• Academically you are considered an adolescent between 11-21 years old
• How to use AET more efficiently
• AET is awesome

• What do we want to learn more about?
• FFA
• While we will be discussing this in 311, I think that AEE 100 might offer a lot more of what you are looking for. Check that out if you aren't already in the class!
• Teacher/FFA website
• See my response above. Once I play around with it, I should be able to start adding students who are interested in contributing
• Recruitment tools for organizations
• We have a session on this in December! But keep this in mind while planning out the four projects. What pieces can you add that make students want to be a part of it?
• Using the AET calendar for class due dates
• I can definitely add these in! :)

What does our profession expect of us?

In the second class session of AEE 311, The Bellwork (or Do Now) was to identify three items. One of those items on the White Cards was to identify the "expectations" of Agriscience Teachers regarding SAE and FFA. This was to be influenced by your assigned reading of National Quality Program Standards for Agricultural Education and Candidate Proficiency Statements from AAAE.

To recap some acronyms thrown around:

• The Council for Agricultural Education:  A think tank for agricultural education as a whole
• National Association of Agricultural Educators (NAAE): Organization for secondary agriscience teachers
• American Association for Agricultural Education (AAAE): Organization for Agricultural Teacher Educators (ie Dr. Ewing & Dr. Foster)
• The National FFA Organization: Youth Organization for Agricultural Education Students

I found very interesting the list of "expectations" you identified/remembered after the reading. They included, The Agriscience Teacher:

• must make sure record books are kept up to date.
• must serve as the FFA Advisor.
• must have knowledge of how FFA record books work and to ensure each student has a well prepared SAE
• must have knowledge of what an SAE is
• educate about agriculture and live the creed (Click here for the Ag Teacher Creed)
• capacity to submit an annual summary of students' SAE programs
• serve as a role model for the FFA chapter and actively involve students
• capacity to teacher students leadership qualities
• design record keeping formats appropriate for each of the four types of SAE (to learn about the four types: click here)
• have knowledge of the FFA programs
• Formulate a record keeping strategy to document student SAE program outcomes based upon the concept of career pathway progression (To learn about Career Pathways: click here)
• be able to supervised a planned Program of Activities (POA)
• Be prepared for every class [no throwing in movies]
• Take a team to National Convention
• Has an SAE experience in a career/pathway
• Be supportive of student and do everything possible to hep them be successful
• must develop lesson plans
• Create curriculum that will guide students through SAE program selection with good examples
• Conduct SAE visits
• Design a curriculum unit and lesson plans in which students learn the basics of record keeping and management

After reading all of those...


I think that some might not have had time to complete the reading!

Some of you are on the right path, but some are not exactly there. Look again at required readings (also found on Angel Session 1!) on the National Quality Program Standards for FFA & SAE in secondary ag programs and the SAE teacher candidate statements from AAAE (bright pink).

Three quotes on expectations to think about:

High Expectations are Key to Everything. - Sam Walton

High Achievement always take place in the framework of high expectation - Charles F. Kettering

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal. - Norman Vincent Peale