Jillian Gordon, an agriculture teacher at Clark Central High School in Georgia, discusses strategies for successfully implementing Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE) programs with students. She emphasizes the importance of introducing SAE early in the school year, spending significant time on planning and goal-setting, and modeling record-keeping practices using her own example. Gordon also highlights the need to differentiate instruction based on SAE categories such as placement, entrepreneurship, and research, and encourages urban students to explore non-traditional agricultural opportunities that fit their circumstances rather than assuming they need traditional animal-based projects.
