Change Lives

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Change Lives

• Teach Agricultural Education

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Impacting a Life

• Teaching Agriculture Education Workshop
• Introduction
• Mrs. Brittany Elmquist
• Ms. Katie Lewis
• AKA Bean and Swan

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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?

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What is an agriculture educator?

• Five groups
• Five volunteers from each
• Take turns molding an object and your team
  guesses
• (Scooby, Dooby, Doooo)

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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?

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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

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What challenges do you face as an agriculture
educator?

• At your tablesyou 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

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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?

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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
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• Many will expect you to wear many different hats
• Bus driver
• Vet
• Parent
• Shrink
• Salesman
• Motivational speaker
• And all within the same day!

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So, why should YOU do it???

• What famous group has the slogan
• Be All You Can Be?

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Thats right the Army

• The army and us want you to join the army of
  agriculture educators

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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
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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!!!

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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?

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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
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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

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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?

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If YES

• Secret oath
• Agriculture Educators creed adapted
• Please raise your right hand and repeat after me

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Future Agriculture Educators Creed

• I am not just an ag teacher wanna-be,
• But an ag teacher gonna-be, oh yeah!

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• I believe and know that agriculture has a future,
• And it is in the hands of a younger culture.

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• I want to mold and impact the next generation
• And will do this as I teach.
• Through the lives and individuals I reach.

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• 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.

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• 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?

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• And I will continue on in the FFA,
• Do my student teaching,
• Oh, yes, I will be there someday.

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• To join the ranks and take up the battle,
• Teaching meats, conservation, flowers, and cattle.

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• 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.

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• Today, all of these things I promise,
• As I continue to build my tower high.

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Questions, Comments, Concerns, Smart Remarks

• Sticky notes
• What questions do you have?
• What do you really want to know?
• What can we do to help?

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Thanks Much and Good Luck!