The FFA and You!

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The FFA and You!

• From Foukeffa.org
• Chapter 20
• AgriScience Explorations 2nd Ed
• 8th Grade Rotation, Spring 2001
• Mrs. Sheryl Schlosser
• GA Ag Ed Curriculum Office
• To accompany the Georgia Agriculture Education
  Curriculum Course 01012
• July 2001

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Survey the chapter

• Read the introduction
• Divide into groups of 3 or 4 people you dont
  normally work with
• Share ideas on what you think the chapter is
  about
• come up with 5 ideas per group
• Compile a master list of student ideas on the
  board

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Student ideas about chapter prior to opening it

• How education leads to success
• How to succeed
• Feel good about what youre doing
• Ideas about your future
• Opportunity
• Career Success
• Becoming active in the FFA

• Your own personal growth
• Good Leadership
• Learning how to work with others
• Learning by doing
• Learning about the FFA
• Advantages of the FFA
• Learning about your surroundings
• How does the FFA affects your life and education

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STUDENT LEARNING OBJECTIVES.

• 1. Explain the purpose and the History of the FFA
• 2. Describe how to be an FFA member
• 3. Explain how the FFA is organized
• 4. Describe the activities offered by the FFA
• 5. Explain how to be a good FFA member
• 6. Recite the FFA Creed

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Vocabulary

• Active FFA Membership
• Career Development Events (CDE)
• Chapter FFA Degree
• Charter
• FFA
• FFA Advisor
• FFA Motto
• National FFA Organization

• Future Farmers of America
• Greenhand FFA Degree
• Leader
• Leadership
• Official Dress
• Personal Growth
• Proficiency Awards

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Introduction

• Key to Success
• With this key you can open any door
• Your key can be changed everyday
• Your key can open any door you want it to even
  the glass ceiling
• Normal
• Take that concept and burn it
• You decide whats normal
• You can be anything you want to be

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Life is a GAMBLE

• Are you willing to take the risk.
• if so proceed into the door of the unknown world
  of opportunity

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Turning heading subheading into questions

• Describe the purpose and history of the FFA?
• What are and explain the purposes of the FFA?
• Describe Leadership?
• Describe Personal Growth?
• Describe Career Success?
• Describe and compare the history of the FFA now
  and then?

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Questions (continued)

• How do you become an FFA member?
• What is active membership and list degree
  requirements?
• Compare other types of membership?
• What activities are available w/n the FFA?
• Define Career Development Events and Proficiency
  Awards?
• How do you become a good FFA member?
• What are member responsibilities?

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What are the purposes of the FFA?
The purpose of the FFA is to develop

• Scholarship
• Cooperation
• Recreation
• Service
• Thrift

• Improved Agriculture
• Leadership
• Citizenship
• Patriotism
• Character

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Improved Agriculture

• Helps students to understand how life has been
  made easier through improvements in agriculture
• milking dairy cows
• 400-2000 cows by machine twice / 3 times a day
• 20-40 cows by hand twice a day
• tractors - 1acre field feeds 20 people
• by hand 5 farmers with 5 acres 500 people
• 1 farmer with a tractor 1000 acres 20,000
  people

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Leadership

• Ability to influence other people to meet
  individual or group goals
• You need to decide where you want to be
• LEAD, FOLLOW or GET OUT OF THE WAY
• You have to decide what role is best suited for
  each situation
• You have to be able to assume all roles or change
  your role very quickly in some situations

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Citizenship

• Being a productive member of society
• if you dont have to be on welfare or food stamps
  to survive then DONT
• When you have your hand out ..
• Are you offering or asking for something

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Patriotism

• Loyalty and love for ones country
• You have to be loyal to what you believe in
• Make decisions in life and get off the fence

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Character

• Morals or values
• What you believe in or stand for
• What kind of person are you?
• How do people look at you?
• Are you honest?
• Are you a thief?

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Scholarship

• Academics
• strive to be the best students you can be
• work hard and obtain good grades
• if you need help with an assignment have the
  courage to ask
• Albert Einstein was learning disabled

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Cooperation

• The act or practice of cooperating
• To work together towards a common end or purpose
• What happens when people dont cooperate?
• What happens when they do?

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Recreation

• Allows students to have fun with each other
• camps, basketball

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Service

• Helping others
• Employment in duties or work for another
• Helping other students or community members
• Service with a SMILE.... Whether its cleaning
  floors or being the President of the US

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Thrift

• Wise economy in the management of money and other
  resources
• using time wisely
• Wisely economical
• thrift stores

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Being active in the FFA allows opportunities
too...

• TRAVEL
• HAVE FUN
• MEET PEOPLE

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The FFA stresses three closely related areas

• LEADERSHIP
• PERSONAL GROWTH
• CAREER SUCCESS

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Describe Leadership?

• Ability to influence other people to meet
  individual or group goals
• A leader is a person who helps others meet their
  goals
• With a little practice these traits can be
  learned by anyone
• personal skills
• how to skills
• thinking skills
• peopleskills

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Leaders are not born.

• They are EDUCATED

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Personal skills

• Traits that make it easy for people to follow the
  leader
• responsibility
• hard working
• share responsibility

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How to skills

• Helps a leader to share responsibility
• organizational skills
• organizes meetings
• public speaking
• written communication

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Thinking skills

• Enables a leader to think and assess problems
• analyzing situations
• anticipate problems
• seeing opportunities

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People skills

• Helps leader relate to others
• trustworthy
• respect others
• positive attitude
• good communication skills

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Describe Personal Growth?

• Developing skills to have a good life
• Leadership skills Career skills
  Personal Growth
• Social behavior
• manners - help us respect others
• Citizenship skills
• obey laws, vote, make your community a good place
  to live

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How to shake hands use in saying hello or
goodbye, sealing business deals

• 1. Use right hand
• 2. Grasp - palm to palm (dont squeeze)
• 3. Shake dont pump
• 4. Release after a few seconds
• 5. Eye contact
• 6. Smile
• 7. Speak

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Describe Career Success?

• Helps people develop skills to begin and advance
  in careers
• Recognizes excellence
• Applied through Agricultural Education and SAE to
  gain practical experience in many areas
• some do research, others raise animals or crops

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Describe and compare the history of the FFA now
and then

• It has always been the students first
• their needs, interests, and goals
• You have to know where you have been.. to know
  where you are going

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History cont

• 1920s Future Farmers of America was founded by
  Henry Groseclose in rural Virginia
• 1928 1st FFA convention in Kansas City Missouri -
  33 delegates
• 1934 all states except Rhode Island had FFA
• 1939 National FFA Camp on land which belonged to
  George Washington in Alexandria, Virginia. (The
  camp later became the National FFA Center.)

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History cont

• 1944 National FFA Foundation was formed to use
  funds from business and industry to support FFA
  activities.
• 1950 Public Law 740 was passed by Congress
  granting the FFA a federal charter.
• 1958 The National Future Farmer magazine was
  started.

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History cont

• 1965 Consolidation with the New Farmers of
  America (NFA) strengthened the FFA. (NFA was an
  organization similar to the FFA for African
  American students.)
• 1969 Female students were allowed to become
  members.
• 1971 National FFA Alumni Association was formed.

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History cont

• 1988 Name of the organization was changed to
  National FFA Organization.
• 1989 Name of The National Future Farmer magazine
  was changed to New Horizons.
• 1999 National FFA Center moved from Alexandria,
  VA, to Indianapolis, IN.
• 1999 The National FFA Convention was moved to
  Louisville, Kentucky.

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How do you become a member?

• Kinds of FFA Membership
• 1. Active
• 2. Alumni
• 3. Collegiate
• 4. Honorary

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What is active membership?

• Students enrolled in agricultural classes in
  grades 7-12
• Pay local, State and National Dues 10
• Be interested in FFA
• Attend meetings on a regular basis
• Participate in activities
• 4 categories of active status
• Greenhand, Chapter Farmer, State Degree,
  American Farmer

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Greenhand versus Chapter FFA Degree

• Greenhand
• Enrolled in Ag with a plan for an SAE
• Learn Creed, Motto, Salute and Mission
• Explain colors and emblem
• Demo code of ethics and proper jacket use
• history, constitutions and bylaws, POA
• Access to manual and handbook

• Chapter
• Received Greenhand
• 180 hours class time
• 3 activities
• earned or invested 150 or worked 45 hours
• Lead a 15 min group discussion
• 5 Parli Pro activities
• progress towards goal
• C average in all classes

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Compare other memberships?

• Alumni - former members and others interested in
  the FFA organization
• Collegiate - students enrolled in a 2 or 4 year
  college
• Honorary - adults who have been supportive of the
  FFA, voted on by members

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What activities are available with in the FFA?

• Something for everyone

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Define Career Development Events and Proficiency
Awards

• Career Development Events
• Allow members to show the skills learned in the
  classroom or through SAEs
• either individual or group competitions
• can earn cash, travel and scholarships

• Proficiency Awards
• allows students to compete for top achievement in
  a skill area at local, State and National levels
• based on SAEs
• can earn cash, travel and scholarships

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How do I become a good FFA member?

• More than just paying dues
• Know about the organization and its impressive
  heritage
• Be able to
• State the motto
• Explain the colors
• Describe the FFA emblem
• Explain the official dress
• Recite the FFA creed

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FFA MottoLearning to DoDoing to LearnEarning
to LiveLiving to Serve
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Colors of the FFA

• The colors of the FFA are National Blue and Corn
  Gold. Blue reminds us that the FFA is a national
  organization. Gold reminds us that corn is a
  native American crop grown in every state.

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Symbols of the FFA Emblem

• The FFA emblem was designed with much thought and
  meaning.
• It is made up of five symbols.

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Symbols of the FFA Emblem

• A cross-section of an ear of corn. The symbol of
  corn represents our common agricultural
  interests, is native to America, and is grown in
  every state.

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Symbols of the FFA Emblem

• The eagle. This is symbolic of the national scope
  of the FFA.

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Symbols of the FFA Emblem

• The rising sun. It symbolizes progress in
  agriculture and the confidence that FFA members
  have in the future.

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Symbols of the FFA Emblem

• The plow. It is a symbol of labor and tillage of
  the soil.

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Symbols of the FFA Emblem

• The owl. It symbolizes wisdom and knowledge.

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Symbols of the FFA Emblem

• The words Agricultural Education surround the
  letters FFA. This tells us that FFA is an
  important part of agriculture and agribusiness
  programs.

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Some Guidelines ForWearing the FFA Jacket

• 1. It should only be worn by FFA members.
• 2. It should always be clean and neat.
• 3. It should only have the names of the state
  association and local chapter on the back.
  Individuals name and office of honor should be
  on the front.

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Some Guidelines ForWearing the FFA Jacket

• 4. It should be worn with the zipper fastened to
  all official FFA occasions.
• 5. It should not be worn with apparel bearing the
  insignia of other organizations.
• 6. It should be worn with no more than three
  medals beneath the individuals name.

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The FFA Creed

• I believe in the future of agriculture, with a
  faith born not of words but of deeds achievements
  won by the present and past generations of
  agriculturists in the promise of better days
  through better ways, even as the better things we
  now enjoy have come to us from the struggles of
  former years.

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The FFA Creed

• I believe that to live and work on a good farm,
  or to be engaged in other agricultural pursuits,
  is pleasant as well as challenging for I know
  the joys and discomforts of agricultural life and
  hold an inborn fond-ness for those associations
  which, even in hours of discouragement, I cannot
  deny.

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The FFA Creed

• I believe in leadership from ourselves and
  respect from others. I believe in my own ability
  to work efficiently and think clearly, with such
  knowledge and skill as I can secure, and in the
  ability of progressive agriculturists to serve
  our own and the public interest in producing and
  marketing the product of our toil.

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The FFA Creed

• I believe in less dependence on begging and more
  power in bargaining in the life abundant and
  enough honest wealth to help make it so for
  others as well as myself in less need for
  charity and more of it when needed in being
  happy myself and playing square with those whose
  happiness depends upon me.

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The FFA Creed

• I believe that American agriculture can and will
  hold true to the best traditions of our national
  life and that I can exert an influence in my home
  and community which will stand solid for my part
  in that inspiring task.

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What are the member responsibilities?

• Learn about the FFA
• Participate
• Volunteer for committees and to be an officer
• support all members
• Participate in leadership development activities
• Have a good SAE
• Keep good records

• Take studies seriously
• Respect others
• Avoid substance that can harm you
• Practice good eating and sleeping habits
• Follow school and community rules
• Strive to develop good human relation skills
• Tell others of FFA

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Where to get more information

• http//www.ffa.org
• FFA Student Handbook
• FFA official Manual
• You FFA Advisor
• Older FFA members

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See if you have attained understanding of the FFA

• What is the early history of the FFA?
• What does the FFA strive to achieve, 3 things?
  Briefly explain each
• What are the 4 kinds of FFA membership?
• What are major requirements for active
  membership?
• What are the 3 levels of the FFA organization?

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Review cont

• How is the National Organization administered?
• What is a career development event? Give 2
  examples?
• What is a proficiency award? Give 2 examples?
• What is the FFA Motto?
• What are the official FFA colors?

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Review cont

• What are the main items in the FFA emblem?
  Briefly explain each
• What is official dress for males and for females?
• What are the responsibilities of FFA members?
  Explain 2

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Match these terms with the definitions on the
next slide

• FFA
• FFA Motto
• Proficiency Awards
• FFA Advisor
• Personal Growth
• CDE
• Active FFA Membership
• charter

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Match terms to these choices

• 1. Kind of membership for high school students
• 2. Official designation of a chapter
• 3. 3 letters symbolizing the National FFA
  Organization
• 4. Developing skills for a good life

• 5. FFA activities that allow demonstration of
  skills
• 6. An Ag teacher responsible for the chapter
• 7. 12 words that guide FFA members
• Awards for members who excel in certain areas

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Are you ready for the test ?

• If not go through this slide show again and good
  luck