What is Agricultural Education?

Agricultural Education provides:

• Employability skills students can transfer from the classroom setting to their careers.

• Life knowledge and all the soft skills that employers seek.

• Instruction that brings to life the concepts of rigor, relevance, and relationships by engaging students in a model that has worked since 1917 with the inception of agricultural education in public schools.

• Instruction that will engage students in the globalization of agriculture as the solution for environmental demands, food safety, technology, natural resource protection, and urbanization.

• Immediate application of the principles and theories taught in the core academic subjects: Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies.

• Potential for high school core academic credit through agricultural education courses.

• Creation of future entrepreneurs.

• Learning for diverse student populations including ethnicity, special needs, socioeconomic levels, cultural backgrounds, etc.

• Opportunities for student to engage in service-learning in real world situations.

• Character development of all students.

• Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE) projects provide real-life training in money management, budgeting, and maintaining financial records.

• FFA and leadership development activities that help develop the whole person and promote interpersonal relations and communication skills, problem solving, teamwork, and character development.

• The strength of the program lies in the flexibility and dedication of teachers, administrators, and staff whose philosophy is, "We don't just teach agriculture, we teach students."