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20 Overcoming Current Challenges in the Ag Community
Davis-Rodgers
FFA Programming
The Ag Ed Model has three components to agri-
cultural education. The classroom, supervised ag-
riculture experience, and FFA. In the classroom, a
former student stated it best when she described
it as organized chaos. The class is full of science
experiments, constructing models, or working on
equations for financial management. Agriculture
classes are categorized as Career and Technical
Education which builds a students employability
skills along with technical knowledge in a foun-
dational skills set for students. The classroom is
full of energy with a variety of components that of a great discovery that supports core education.
emphasize communication and problem solving. Pictured are a few examples of what can be seen
On a typical day, students are moving around get- in the classroom for projects.
ting their hands dirty and looking at some kind
