Change Lives
Teach Agricultural Education
Impacting a Life
• Teaching Agriculture Education
Workshop
• Introduction
– Mrs. Brittany Elmquist
– Ms. Katie Lewis
• AKA Bean and Swan
Objectives
• What is an agriculture educator?
• What challenges do you face as an
agriculture educator?
• Why should you be an agriculture
educator? How do I become an
agriculture educator?
What is an agriculture
educator?
• Five groups…
– Five volunteers from each
• Take turns “molding” an object and
your team guesses
– (Scooby, Dooby, Doooo)
What is an agriculture
educator?
• How difficult was it to mold these
different shapes?
• How hard is to mold play-dough?
• How does this relate to being an
agriculture educator?
Swan and Bean
thoughts…
• Ag teachers mold students
• We are given the opportunity to impact students
by helping them develop as individuals and risk
becoming better
• Just as the shapes were all different and some
more detailed than others – so are the students
and people we impact
• ***AGRICULTURE EDUCATORS ARE ARTISTS
AND OUR CANVAS ARE STUDENTS’ LIVES
What challenges do you
face as an agriculture
educator?
• At your tables…you have 5-7 minutes to:
– Construct the tallest tower you can
– MUST be free standing
• But, can have as many contact points with the ground
as you want
– AGREE within your group on the best way to
create your “leaning tower of success”
What challenges do you
face as an agriculture
educator?
• What challenges did you face in
building your tower?
• How did you overcome these
challenges?
• Would you consider your tower a
success?
Bean and Swan
thoughts…
• Being an agriculture educator has many
challenges
• Students, parents, communities, and
administrators all have different
expectations and ideas of success for you
and the chapter
• You have a great amount of knowledge you
need to learn and know in order to teach
the many different classes
Continued…
• Many will expect you to wear many
different hats
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Bus driver
Vet
Parent
Shrink
Salesman
Motivational speaker
• And all within the same day!
So, why should YOU do
it???
• What famous group has the slogan
– “Be All You Can Be?”
That’s right – the Army
• The army and us want you to join the
“army” of agriculture educators
Why should you be an agriculture
educator? How do I become an
agriculture educator?
• Room splits in half
• Everyone will need paper and a pencil
• ½ room write down reasons why you
want to be an agriculture educator
• ½ room write down what they need to
be a successful agriculture educator
Continued
Why should you be an agriculture
educator? How do I become an
agriculture educator?
• Write your category at the top of the page and
your first reason
• When given the go…
– Throw it to the other side
– The other side will pick it up and read the answer and
then put their response on the back side of the paper
and throw it back
– This will continue and NO answers can be repeated on
the sheet of paper
– ***The goal is to have fewer “bombs” on the your side
when “cease fire” is called
• READY, AIM, FIRE!!!
Why should you be an agriculture
educator? How do I become an
agriculture educator?
• Discuss…
• 1st: Reasons to be an agriculture
educator
• 2nd: How do you become an
successful agriculture educator?
Swan and Bean
thoughts…
• One of the new slogans in the army is
“An Army of One”
– While important to be a force within
yourself – this is not a slogan that really
holds true in agriculture education
– In ag ed, we are team and a special
group
Continued
Swan and Bean
thoughts…
• Club that is not for the weak of heart
• You have to be BRAVE
– But, you do not do it on your own
– Depend on fellow ag teachers for ideas,
motivation and support
– We are even more of a force, together as a
group
You must make a
decision…
• 1) Are you a molder of man (okay
high school students)? Do you want
to be the one to make the impact?
• 2) Are you up to the challenge? Is it
worth the risk?
• 3) Will you join the army?
If YES…
• Secret oath
• Agriculture Educator’s creed –
adapted
• Please raise your right hand and
repeat after me
Future Agriculture
Educator’s Creed
• I am not just an ag teacher
wanna-be,
• But an ag teacher gonna-be, oh
yeah!
• I believe and know that agriculture
has a future,
• And it is in the hands of a younger
culture.
• I want to mold and impact the next
generation
• And will do this as I teach.
• Through the lives and individuals I
reach.
• I know it will not be easy,
• And at times I might have to act
pretty cheesy,
• But I know I can, and will, make a
difference.
• I promise to learn and succeed as best I
can,
• Striving to become “the woman” or “the
man”
• Who is pointed to when the question is
raised,
• “Who made a difference in your life
today?”
• And I will continue on in the FFA,
• Do my student teaching,
• Oh, yes, I will be there someday.
• To join the ranks and take up the
battle,
• Teaching meats, conservation,
flowers, and cattle.
• I join of my own free will,
• Knowing that I will never get my
fill,
• Of learning, teaching, and
preaching,
• Coaching, molding, and impacting
lives.
• Today, all of these things I
promise,
• As I continue to build my tower
high.
Questions, Comments,
Concerns, Smart Remarks…
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Sticky notes
What questions do you have?
What do you really want to know?
What can we do to help?
Thanks Much and Good
Luck!