For Teachers
Teaching Our Future Leaders
Whether you’re a seasoned teaching professional or a pre-service teacher looking forward to your first year in the classroom, agricultural education offers a pathway to a rewarding and impactful career. You can make a difference in the lives of your students and their families, your community, and your school.
What educators love about
Agricultural Education
Hear from Agricultural Educators, about the importance of agriculture education and how you can help get (and keep) students engaged.
Teacher Resources
There are many to get involved with agricultural education, whether you participate with an existing chapter or help your school create a new one.
Marketing Resources
If you want to start an agricultural education program at your school, we’re excited for you to join us! Learn more about starting an agricultural education program and FFA Chapter.
Resources for Aspiring and Pre-service Teachers
Why Agriculture?
Agricultural education creates opportunities
Here’s how:
Inspiring, engaging, and hands-on learning that combines coursework, work-based learning through agricultural education, and leadership development
Projects, labs, internships, and competitions that explore more than 350 careers in agriculture, business, engineering, communications, education, and more
Working outside of the classroom walls to develop students’ leadership and life skills, encouraging informed and globally conscious citizens
Traveling and supporting students who are competing across the country and even the globe
Creating a support network of teaching professionals across Indiana and beyond
Mentorship and career development to remain inspired
Earning additional income through an expanded teaching contract
Here are some faqs to get you started:
Through agricultural education, students are provided with opportunities for hands-on learning, mentorship, leadership development, and personal growth, leading them to become future chemists, veterinarians, government officials, entrepreneurs, farmers, bankers, international business leaders, teachers and premier professionals in more than 350 careers. Discover potential careers at agexplorer.ffa.org. And even if a student chooses another profession to pursue outside of the umbrella of agriculture, they still leave high school as informed consumers and community-minded citizens, aware of the importance and value of global agriculture, food, fiber, and natural resources systems.
Students are offered mentorship and guidance to start their own business or participate in an internship to gain real work experience, known as a Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE). Learn more at saeforall.org and ffa.org.
Students can simultaneously earn Technical and Academic Honors designations upon successful completion of coursework, providing a springboard for work, technical school, collegiate and post-grad opportunities in a variety of fields.
FFA offers an opportunity for students to learn skills and gain confidence through competitions at local, state, and national levels in numerous categories. It’s often a way of bringing pride to the school and community in the same way sports or performing arts may do for schools.
While a preconceived notion might suggest agricultural education is only for students interested in pursuing careers in production agriculture, students actually learn a wide variety of applicable skills, including science, math, public speaking, leadership, management and technology.
Agricultural education plays a vital role in preparing students for more than 350 career paths,, and instills transferable values and life skills like self-sustainability and leadership.
Currently, more than 1,000,000 students participate in formal agricultural education instructional programs offered in grades 7-12 throughout the 50 states and three U. S. territories.
Students who graduate high school through an agricultural education pathway have a % higher chance of being accepted into college and a % higher chance of finding employment post graduation than students in other pathways.
Purdue’s College of Agriculture has a 99% placement rate upon graduation.
FFA Chapters can be found in 91 of the 92 counties in Indiana. You can locate chapters near you with FFA’s Chapter Locator. If your school does not currently offer agricultural education or FFA, you can find more information on how to start a program here.
For information on how to start an agricultural education program in your school, visit LINK.
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