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... AGRICULTURAL LITERACY It is necessary to understand throughout this report the committee's definition of agricultural education, which extends beyond traditional vocational programs. Agriculture is too important a topic to be taught only to the relatively small percentage of students considering careers in agriculture and pursuing vocational agriculture studies.
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... Most programs consist classroom and laboratory instruction, supervised occupational experiences (SOEs) , and membership in the National FFA (Future Farmers of America)
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... Traditional vocational agriculture programs and the students' organization, the FFA, are not meeting the broader needs for agricultural education generated by changes in the food and fiber industries and society as a whole. SOE programs often do not reflect the broad range of opportunities in today's agricultural industry.
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... Major leadership challenges include developing the curriculum, revising the focus and content of FFA programs and activities, evaluating programs, educating teachers, assuring adequate resources, and creating a more flexible and adaptive legislative and budgetary framework. · Major revisions are needed within vocational agriculture.
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... · As a goal, all students enrolled in vocational agriculture programs should participate in worthwhile SOEs. In addition to employment-related and entrepreneurial SOEs, students should acquire supervised experience in land laboratories, agricultural mechanics laboratories, greenhouses, nurseries, and other facilities provided by schools.
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... · States should establish commissions, preferably appointed by the governor and the chief state school officer, to identify needs and strategies for implementing agricultural literacy programs and reforming vocational agriculture programs. · Not only teachers and other specialists in agricultural education, but also legislators, school superintendents and board members, principals, and science teachers should provide leadership in the initiation of agricultural literacy efforts and the reformation of vocational agriculture.
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... Department of Agriculture encourage the achievement of this goal by providing challenge grants to universities initiating new linkages between departments in colleges of agriculture and agricultural education in the public schools.


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