Educator Resources

Effective classroom and laboratory instruction prepares qualified employees for the food, fiber and natural resources industries. These resources will assist you in helping students make a seamless transition from school to careers and prepare them for lifelong learning.

1. New Horizons Teaching Guide
2. Agribility – Cultivating Accessible Agriculture
3. Agricultural Risk Management Instructional Materials
4. AgriEntrepreneurship
5. Drinking Water: Protecting the Source
6. Financial Planning and Management
7. Focusing on Agricultural Issues (CDE resource)
8. Introduction to Food Science
9. LifeKnowledge
   1. Perspectives: Leadership Activities and Writing Prompts to Promote Powerful Discussions
   2. Personal Growth Plan
   3. Leadership on the GO!
   4. Leadership, Personal Growth and Career Success Self-Paced Modules
   5. Chapter Leadership Activities
   6. Basics of Coaching Individuals
   7. Leadership Integration Ideas
   8. LifeKnowledge Lessons
      1. LK Newsletter Archives
      2. LK in Action Podcasts
      3. e-Moments
      4. Lesson Structure and Design
   9. Substitute Teacher's Guide
10. Middle School Food and Agricultural Literacy Curriculum
11. Renewable Fuels Lesson Plans and Student Module Courses
12. Today's Challenges; Today's Leaders: Focusing on Diversity, Hunger, Advocacy and Sustainability
13. Welding Connects Your World - (Requires Flash to be installed in your web browser)
14. AgExplorer
15. When I Grow Up-Discover Ag Careers (Grades 6-8)

The strength of your program rests on your commitment to develop opportunities for students to build skills through hands-on work experiences. These resources will help you meet your students' career interests and goals.

1. The Official FFA Student Handbook Advisor's Guide Lessons
2. SAE Templates [download zip file]

3. SAE Handbook Sections

   1. History of SAE (PDF)
   2. Benefits of SAEs (PDF)
   3. SAE Assessment (PDF)
   4. How SAE Supports Academic Standards (PDF)
   5. Financing an SAE (PDF)
   6. Placement SAE (PDF)
   7. Research SAE (PDF)
   8. Entrepreneurship SAE (PDF)
   9. Exploratory SAE (PDF)
   10. Ag Service-Learning SAE (PDF)
   11. Other SAEs (PDF)
   12. The Correlation Between SAE and FFA (PDF)
   13. Legal and Safety Awareness (PDF)
   14. SAE for Special Needs Students (PDF)
   15. SAE Supervision/Visitation (PDF)
   16. Ideas for Student SAE Activities (PDF)
   17. Ideas for Promoting SAE to Students (PDF)
   18. Ideas for Public Relations of SAE Efforts (PDF)
   19. Ideas for Recognizing Students (PDF)
   20. Tips on best practices (PDF)
   21. Brochure (PDF)
4. Paper Certificate Templates

FFA builds leadership skills for life, reinforces instruction and gives students opportunities to make a positive difference in their schools and communities. Check out these resources to develop your chapter.

1. Agricultural Sales Instructional Video
2. Banquet Planning – Instructor’s Guide
3. Career Development Event Questions and Answers
4. CDE/LDE Classroom Resources
5. FFA at 50: A Golden Past, A Brighter Future
6. FFA Emblem PowerPoint
7. Focusing on Agricultural Issues (CDE resources)
8. Food For America
9. Horatio Alger Study
10. LifeKnowledge
11. Living to Serve: Instructional Materials
12. Mpower – A guide to chapter leadership
13. The Official FFA Student Handbook Advisor's Guide Lessons
14. Reaching New Heights
15. Recruitment and Retention Promotional Guide
16. Chapter Officers Educational Standards

Manage your resources to allow you to give more time and attention to facilitating learning. Build partnerships an mobilize volunteers with the school and community to share responsibility for the program.

1. Partnership Handbook
2. Food For America
3. Living to Serve: Instructional Materials
4. Partners in Active Learning Support Instructional Materials
5. Today's Challenges; Today's Leaders: Focusing on Diversity, Hunger, Advocacy and Sustainability
6. Advisory Committee Manual

These tools will assist you in identifying and meeting your key customers' needs, promote your program and plan your program's long-term growth.

1. Marketing Handbook
2. Recruitment and Retention Promotional Guide
3. Broad Fields Bright Futures Videos
   1. Supervised Agricultural Experiences (SAEs)
   2. Partnerships
   3. FFA
   4. Classroom
   5. Agricultural Education

Stay professionally prepared and motivated to teach your students. Evaluate and grow yourself and your program.

1. Professional Growth Handbook
2. Agriculture Teachers Manual
3. National Quality Programs Standards Online Assessment
4. The Official FFA Student Handbook Advisor's Guide Lessons
5. Reaching New Heights
6. Facilitation Techniques - Adobe Flash is required
7. Basics of Coaching Individuals - Adobe Flash is required

Presentations from the 2017 Teacher Workshops during National FFA Convention

1. AG ED Discussion Lab
2. #TeachAgChat: Using Twitter As a Professional Development tool
3. Making Natural Resources and Environmental Instruction More Effective and Engaging
4. Preparing a Conduct of Chapter Meetings Team
5. Safety Training for ATV Riders
6. The Ticket to Success
7. Ag Sales CDE Workshop
8. APA in FFA
9. Dos and Dont's of Seeking Employment
10. Floral Design Theory and Mechanics
11. Dogs in the Classroom

Plan the total program. Work with community partners to develop an agricultural education program that meets future industry and occupational demands.

1. Agriculture Teachers Manual
2. Program Planning
3. Instruction Handbook
4. Food For America
5. Living to Serve: Instructional Materials
6. Mpower – a guide to chapter leadership
7. The Official FFA Student Handbook Advisor's Guide Lessons
8. Partners in Active Learning Support Instructional Materials
9. Reaching New Heights
10. My Journey: Workshop curriculum - Facilitating the benefits of My Journey
    
11. How to Utilize My Journey
    

2017 National Agricultural Education and FFA Inservice

2016 National Ag-Ed Summit and FFA Inservice

2015 National Agricultural Education and FFA Inservice