What is SAE?

• Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE) Programs consist of planned practical activities conducted outside of class time in which students develop and apply agricultural knowledge and skills.

Examples of SAE Programs

• Operating a lawn care business

• Raising show lambs• Working at a florist

shop• Growing a cotton crop• Designing a

landscaping plan

• Conducting an experiment on rooting hormones

• Operating a pet sitting service

• Working with a veterinarian

• Improving wildlife habitat

Why Have a SAE Program?

• Develop skills that can be used in getting a job• Earn money• Win FFA awards (FFA proficiency awards are

based on your SAE)• Develop skills to start your own business• Obtain skills and knowledge that will be helpful in

college

More Reasons for SAE!

• Learn more about possible careers• Develop management skills• Learn how to keep accurate records• Advance in the FFA (FFA degrees are based on

your SAE)• Improve decision making skills• Develop skills that can be used as a hobby or for

recreation.

One More Reason for SAE!

• It can make a profound impact in the lives of individual students.

The NC SAE Model

Exploratory

Entrepreneurship

Placement

Research

Improvement

Supplementary

Instruction

in and

about

Agriculture

Supervised Agricultural Experience

Employment

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Education

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• Experimental• Non-Experimental

Philosophical basis for SAE?

• SAE is built on the philosophy of pragmatism - the worth of an idea (or what is true) is proven when it is tested in a real word setting. (C. S. Peirce, William James and John Dewey are associated with the philosophy of pragmatism.)

“All genuine education comes about through experience.”

John Dewey

Experiential Learning

Psychological basis for SAE?

• Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs– SAE fits into several levels of Maslow’s

Hierarchy

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

The educational basis for SAE

• Dale’s Cone of Experience

Cone of Learning (Edgar Dale)

Doing the Real Thing

Simulating the Real Experience

Doing a Dramatic Presentation

Giving a Talk

Participating in a Discussion

Seeing It Done on Location

Watching a Demonstration

Looking at an Exhibit

Watching a Movie

Looking at Pictures

Hearing Words

Reading

Nature of Involvement

Passive

Active

Receiving/Participating

Doing

Visual Receiving

Verbal Receiving

After 2 weekswe tend to remember...

10% of what we read

20% of what we hear

30% of what we see

50% of what we hear and see

70% of whatwe say

90% ofwhat wesay anddo

Edgar Dale, Audio-Visual Methods in Teaching (3rd Edn.), Holt, Rinehart, and Winston (1969).

The educational basis for SAE

• Stimulus-Response Learning Theory

Stimulus Response ReinforcementTeaching

SAE FFA programs

The educational basis for SAE

• Kolb’s LearningStyles(Experiential Learning)

What is the legal basis for SAE?

• The Smith-Hughes Act of 1917 (a federal law) required all students to have "directed or supervised practice in agriculture, either on a farm provided for by the school or other farm, for at least six months per year."

This law has since been amended. More later.

N C State Board of Ed. Policy

• Workforce Development Education - Program of Study and Support Services Guide– “Agricultural Education is a program of

coordinated group and individual instructional activities focused on the core areas of classroom laboratory instruction, FFA activities and supervised agricultural experiences.”

This guide is approved by the State Board of Education.

A teacher can require all students to have an SAE just as they require all students to do homework, take tests, and work in the agricultural laboratory. It is a part of agricultural education. The SAE can even be graded.

What Can Teachers Do?

The Old AgEd Education Model

Instruction

SAE FFA

The New Ag Ed Education Model

Instruction

SAE FFA

Who’s Responsible?

• At one time there was strict federal and state control over SAE. Today, the responsibility for the SAE program rests with the teacher.