Volunteer Development Training Materials

Volunteers are often the core of many educational programs.  The role of the volunteer can be as simple as volunteering to transport youth to and from an event, or volunteers with appropriate training can be utilized to coach and mentor youth in complex educational subject areas.  Regardless of the volunteers' roles, their impact on the educational mission of an organization can be enormous. 

The National FFA Alumni Association, in cooperation with Purdue University's Youth Development and Agricultural Education Department has produced ten training modules that cover a wide range of volunteer development topics that encourages the enhanced utilization of volunteers within the FFA organization. The training modules have been adapted for three different audiences: preservice, inservice and volunteers.

Volunteerism Training Modules

Each module includes One lesson plan and PowerPoint per audience, Supplemental materials and editable forms.

Volunteers - These modules are designed for use by state staff, agricultural teachers and volunteer leaders with agricultural education program volunteers.  These may be used for workshops or conference sessions.  Individual teachers and volunteer leaders can utilize the modules on an as-needed basis.

Agricultural Educators - These modules are designed for use by practicing agricultural education teachers.  State staff may want to use these modules for workshops or conference sessions and trainings.  Individual teachers can utilize the modules on an as-needed basis.

Teacher Educators - These modules are designed for use by teacher educators with college students in agricultural education teacher education programs.  These may be used as stand-alone units or as part of a teacher education course.

Module 1 : Why Use Volunteers

Module 2: Positive Youth Development

Module 3: Recruitment and Retention of Volunteers

Module 4: Orientation Training and Evaluation

Module 5: Volunteer Recognition

Module 6: Risk Management Issues

Module 7: Volunteer Screening Process

Module 8: Financial Management

Module 9: Program Development

Module 10: Volunteer Management Database

Program Acknowledgements

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