Once you are enrolled in an agricultural class, you are also an FFA member due to affiliation. The FFA is the nation's largest student organization with over 600,000 members. Through your participation in the FFA you will have the opportunity to learn about hundreds of different careers, travel to cool places within your state, as well as nationally, and even learn and develop leadership and communication skills that you can put to use in our chapter, in the community, as well as for the future in your career choice.
When a student enrolls in an agriculture class, they can expect to learn not only in the classroom environment, but they can expect to spend a lot of time outside of the class working in the garden beds, the tomato and/or flower greenhouse, aquaculture greenhouse, work in the shop or on the facility learning about landscape maintenance/management, as well as basic skills in irrigation or construction, and in the laboratory.
The difference between an agricultural class and most of the other classes you are enrolled in, is that not only do you learn but you actual do the work. Which means that you will read, write and study as you do in most of your other classes, but in agriculture class you will also go outside, explore, work with your hands, get dirty though gain skills which you can take out to the real-world through experiential learning activities.
The Agricultural Education Mission
Agricultural education prepares students for successful careers and a lifetime of informed choices in the global agriculture, food, fiber and natural resources systems.
Through agricultural education, students are provided opportunities for leadership development, personal growth and career success. Agricultural education instruction is delivered through three major components:
Classroom/Laboratory instruction (contextual learning)
Supervised Agricultural Experience programs (work-based learning)
Student leadership organization : Ohio FFA Organization