Roles, Responsibilities, and Rewards of Teaching

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Roles, Responsibilities, and Rewards of Teaching

• AEE 101

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How Many Hats Does a Ag. Ed. Teacher Wear? (Roles)

• Teacher
• Manager
• Counselor
• Coach
• Agriculturalist
• Police Officer
• Maintenance Worker
• Publicist

• Financial Manager
• Learner
• Bus Driver
• Computer Operator
• And many more

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What are the responsibilities associated with
each role?

• Teacher
• Plan lessons
• Regular ag students
• Special education students (self contained or
  mainstreamed)
• Homebound or hospitalized students
• Students in detention
• Present lessons
• Prepare visuals aids and handouts
• Prepare exams
• Grade assignments and exams
• Meet with parents
• Serve on IEP and 504 committees
• Serve on other school committees

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What are the responsibilities associated with
each role?

• Manager
• Operate an effective FFA Program
• Supervise SAE projects
• Work with the FFA Alumni
• Maintain an advisory committee
• Manage equipment, supplies and facilities
• Some agriculture programs are small-scale
  businesses

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What are the responsibilities associated with
each role?

• Counselor
• Help students identify colleges and financial
  opportunities
• Help students plan appropriate career pathways
• Help students with their personal problems
• Help parents and students adjust to the rigors of
  high school (homework, exams, etc)

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What are the responsibilities associated with
each role?

• Coach
• Train FFA teams
• Get students ready to hold local, state, and/or
  national FFA offices

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What are the responsibilities associated with
each role?

• Agriculturist
• Operate a greenhouse, school farm, school nursery
  or an aquaculture center
• Provide the latest and most effective
  agricultural information to people in the
  community

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What are the responsibilities associated with
each role?

• Police Officer
• Enforce school rules
• Participate in bus and lunch duties
• Supervise students in the hallways and bathrooms,
  as well as, supervise school dances, sports
  events
• Report unsafe activities

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What are the responsibilities associated with
each role?

• Maintenance Worker
• Keep classroom and labs organized, clean and safe
• Maintain shop equipment
• Provide school administers with advice on the
  beatification of the school grounds

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What are the responsibilities associated with
each role?

• Publicist
• Maintain good public relationships with the
  community.
• Work with the local news media to get information
  about the agriculture program published

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What are the responsibilities associated with
each role?

• Financial Manager
• Over see the management of theFFA budget and
  fund-raising activities
• Submit receipts on time when using program and/or
  FFA funds.
• Manage the departmental budget (some schools in
  North Carolina run over 70,000 through their
  program every year)
• Make budget requests and fill out requisitions

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What are the responsibilities associated with
each role?

• Learner
• Continuously read professional journals
• Make community contacts that can serve as
  valuable resources.
• Attend professional workshops, in service
  education activities and special opportunities to
  learn more about your field

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What are the responsibilities associated with
each role?

• Bus Driver
• Transport FFA members to and from activities
• Transport other ag students to purchase program
  supplies

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What are the responsibilities associated with
each role?

• Computer Operator
• Develop a program web page
• Maintain program data bases
• Answer e-mail
• Submit FFA rosters on-line
• Access FFA information over the web

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Teacher Time Use

• The average teacher in 1961 spent ___ hours a
  week on teaching activities (both inside and
  outside of school)? (NEA Study)

45
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Teacher Time Use

• Bartholomew Gardner (1981) study found that
  teachers spent ___ hours weekly on all teaching
  duties

45.9
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Teacher Time Use
45.2

• In 1993-94 teachers spent ___ hours a week on
  teaching duties. (NCES)

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NEA Study (1961)

• Teaching - 23 h, 36 m
• Misc. - 9 h
• Grading - 4 h, 34 m
• Planning - 3 h, 30 m
• Preparing aids - 2 h, 30 m
• Individual help - 1 h, 36 m
• Parents - 48 m

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Massachusetts Teachers Association (1976)

• Teachers work as many hours in 5 weeks as
  business and industry people do in ___ weeks.
• A. 4
• B. 5
• C. 6

6
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Agriculture Teacher Time

• In Minnesota if was estimated that agriculture
  teachers work ___ hours per week (Leske, 1969)
• Nebraska agriculture teachers work ___ hours a
  week (Dillon, 1976)

55.7
53
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Rush (Idaho, 1982)
Match How many hours a week should the
agriculture teacher work?
B

• __ 39.1 hours
• __ 42.6 hours
• __ 45.6 hours

• A. Agriculture teacher
• B. Principal
• C. Superintendent
• D. Spouse

C
A
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Peterson (Minnesota, 1977)

• __ 52 h, 6 min.
• __ 51 h, 21 min.
• __ 50 h., 53 min.

• A. First year agri. teacher
• B. 2nd year agri. teacher
• C. 3rd year agri. teacher

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Time

• Ag teachers spend 50-55 hours a week on their job.

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High Turnover Rates of Novice Teachers

• Opinions and research suggest 35-50 percent of
  new teachers leave in the first five years in the
  profession
• WHY?

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Rewards

• Starting salary Minimum of 30,000 (B.S., no
  experience, 12 month contract, lowest paying
  school in the state)
• Some schools pay a supplement
• Wake County around 12
• Mecklenberg around 15
• Masters degree is about 10 more
• National board certification is 12 more
• Mentor teachers receive an extra 100 per month
• There are agriculture teachers in NC making
  60,000

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Longevity Pay

• Years of State Service
• 10 but less than 15
• 15 but less than 20
• 20 but less than 25
• 25 or more years
  

• Longevity Pay Rate
• 1.50
• 2.25
• 3.25
• 4.50

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Benefits

• Health Insurance
• Dental Insurance (some schools)
• Disability
• 11 Paid Holidays
• Sick Leave
• Vacation (see next slide)

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Earned Vacation

• Years of State Service
• Less than 2 years
• 2 but less than 5 years
• 5 but less than 10 years
• 10 but less than 15 years
• 15 but less than 20 years
• 20 years or more

• Days Earned per Month
• 1.00
• 1.15
• 1.40
• 1.65
• 1.90
• 2.15

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More Benefits

• Get to work with youth
• Work flexibility
• Can stay indoors or go outside
• Can build a respected program
• Can make a real impact on individuals
• Job security
• Job availability nationwide
• Can combine vocation with avocation
• Access to a shop and tools