Mission: The
mission of agriculture education is to prepare and
support individuals for careers, build awareness, and
develop leadership for the food, fiber, and natural
resource systems.
Structure:
Agriculture education combines
Classroom Instruction, Supervised
Agricultural Experience, and the FFA organization
through integral instruction. The agriculture education
model is supported by both federal and state law. Nevada
Agriculture Education is currently developing skill
standards for its courses.
Classroom Instruction
covers agriculture science and advanced sciences, and
gives students a practical approach to the theories of
science and how they are used in agriculture, the
largest science industry in the nation.
Supervised Agricultural
Experience is the hands-on, work-based learning part
of the model. It allows the students to learn industry
skills through an ownership or non-ownership enterprise
project that is overseen by their instructor.
The FFA (Future Farmers
of America) organization is the training and testing
area of agriculture education. FFA evaluates the skills
that students learned through agriculture education by
using Career Development Events. It also sharpens
students’ speaking and leadership skills.
FFA
Basics
