In late June, Mrs.
Hoover and I were able make five Supervised Agriculture Experience (SAE) visits
together. I was able to see market swine, breeding goat, and cat projects
during these visits. This experience was very enriching for me as I have never
worked in AET at all.
First, Mrs. Hoover
and I set off for Fort Cherry High School to get some work done - mail out some
thank you cards, send the chapter member list to the fair, and check on the
progress of the project books we were going to see during our visits.
At the first visit
we looked at three market swine projects where all three students were planning
to show and sell their animal at the Washington County Fair in the middle of
August. We then sat down with all three student and had them pull up their AET
account to check out the progress in their project books. While all three
students had worked on their books, a couple were ahead of the others - which
is okay. Since we made this visit, we were able to catch up all three books to
where they needed to be and fix any glitches.
After lunch, we made
the visit to check on the member with the cat project. She recently graduated
high school and was aspiring to be a Veterinarian Technician. Her books looked
good and Mrs. Hoover talked to her about continuing her project next year so
that she would eligible for locally awarded scholarship money to aid in her
schooling expenses.
The last stop of the
day was to check on some breeding goats. This FFA member recently completed her
freshman year at Fort Cherry, but is not new to animals by any means. Actually,
her family has had a farm for many generations and this is something that she
has been involved in her whole life. Her goats were very well maintained and
were more like dogs than shy farm animals. They did not have their computer
there so that we could check her project book, but since Mrs. Hoover and I
looked at them before we had left the school and hers appeared to be up to
date. Mrs. Hoover told her that they would go over it when school started.
These visits helped
Mrs. Hoover to see the progress the students had made, furthermore, we were
able to give each student insight, tips, and other information to make
improvements to their project books and awards they may be eligible for in the
future.
Karlie,
ReplyDeleteTell me how you would connect these entrepreneurship SAE visits to learning outcomes in your class?
Would it change for placement SAE visits? or research SAE visits?
I believe that the SAE visits will connect to class by learning about raising animals, feeding rations, and animal physiology. Placement and research visits will be different because this classwork will be things like marking up prices, sale prices, budgeting, lab reports, and proper experimentation methods.
DeleteGreat photos and I look forward to seeing future posts and hearing more about the connection of your experiences with your students' SAE projects and your learning of AET in your coursework.
ReplyDeleteMe too! Thank you!
DeleteNice blog Karlie. How do SAE cultivate relationships between you, students, parents, and community members? How will you utilize community to support and encourage SAE project opportunities?
ReplyDeleteThank you! I think that SAE's build relationships between myself, the student and the parents by us interacting on a more regular basis. We are also helping students to interact with the community and that helps us as teachers to be more involved in the community as well.
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