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Mission
Goals
Today only six percent of the high school population successfully completes coursework in agriculture.
An abundance of highly motivated, well-educated teachers in all disciplines, pre-kindergarten through adult, provide agriculture, food, fiber and natural resources systems education.
Objectives
- Agricultural education leaders ensure a sufficient quantity of qualified agriculture teachers who represent the demographics
- of the nation.
- Preparation programs for all elementary, secondary and adult teachers integrate instruction in agriculture, food, fiber and natural resources systems.
- Agricultural education leaders provide relevant instructional leadership and professional development opportunities for themselves and for all teachers.
- Teacher preparation programs rely on the most current and broadly representative research for developing curriculum and courses of study.
- Partnerships of leaders in agriculture, food, fiber and natural resources systems education, industry and government provide diverse learning experiences to ensure that school administrators and counselors are aware of the broad career opportunities available in agriculture.
- Agricultural education leaders provide instruction in the review, selection, adaptation and use of appropriate educational technologies and teaching strategies to address the changing education environment.
All students have access to seamless, lifelong instruction in agriculture, food, fiber and natural resources systems through a wide variety of delivery systems and educational settings.
Objectives
- Collaboration among educators and educational entities ensure students benefit from educational effectiveness and efficiency.
- All students, in urban, suburban and rural schools have access to high quality agricultural education programs.
- Prepare students for successful careers in global agriculture, food, fiber and natural resources systems.
- Every agriculture student has opportunities for experiential learning and leadership development.
- Agricultural education instructional systems and materials provide for diverse learning styles.
- Student enrollments in agricultural education represent the diversity of the school-age population.
Tomorrow all students will achieve conversational literacy of agriculture and have access to life-long instruction.
All students are conversationally literate in agriculture, food, fiber and
natural resources systems.
Objectives
- Agriculture teachers encourage cross-curricular course development and instructional collaboration with teachers in all disciplines.
- All teachers include elements of agriculture in a relevant, integrated instructional approach.
- Agriculture teachers collaborate with other groups to bring
factual information about agriculture, food, fiber and natural resources systems to all
students.
Partnerships and strategic alliances ensure a continuous presence of education in and about agriculture, food, fiber and natural resources systems.
Objectives
- Positive working relationships with multiple stakeholders build lines of communication and provide a diverse workforce for the agriculture, food, fiber and natural resources industries.
- Broad-based coalitions of groups and organizations collaborate to develop and disseminate contemporary agriculture curricula for all students.
- Partnerships and strategic alliances provide strong support for agricultural education.
- Numerous and varied stakeholders, inside and outside the school
system, engage in a continuing effort to strengthen and refine the shared vision, mission
and goals.
Sponsored as a Special Project of the
National FFA Foundation, Inc.
