Employability Skills

SAE Supervised Agricultural Experience

SAE Activities outside of the regular classroom time

SAE Counts toward agricultural education grade

Major Components of Agriscience Program Classroom and laboratory instruction FFA SAE

Is for every student

Purpose of SAE Provides opportunities to explore a variety of subjects about Agriscience

Purpose of SAE Provides educational and practical experience in a specialized area of agriscience

Purpose of SAE Provides opportunities for earning while learning

Purpose of SAE Teaches students to keep good records in a record system (computer where applicable)

Purpose of SAE Win FFA awards (proficiency awards are based on SAE)

Types of SAE Exploratory Entrepreneurship Placement Improvement

Types of SAE Supplemental Analyltical Experimental

Exploratory SAE Where you want to observe and experience a variety of career options

Exploratory SAE Short durations usually; fits beginning students well

Exploratory SAE Help students become literate in agriculture

Exploratory SAE Learn of possible careers

Exploratory SAE Samples; Observing and/or assisting a florist, interviewing a bank loan officer, attending career day

Entrepreneurship Ownership or part- ownership and assume financial risk

Entrepreneurship SAE Develop skills necessary to become established in one’s own business

Entrepreneurship SAE May be production or agribusiness related and involve enterprises (specific crops, livestock, activities)

SAE “Enterprise” A type of animal or plant

Entrepreneurship SAE Production – Raise an agricultural commodity for profit.

Entrepreneurship SAE Production Examples: Produce vegetables, grow Christmas trees, raise horses of livestock, or grow field crops or nursery crops.

Raising Beef Cattle Example of a production SAE project

Entrepreneurship SAE Agribusiness – Students buy and sell an agricultural commodity or service for profit

Entrepreneurship SAE Agribusiness examples: pet business, crop scouting service, feed scales, or running a pay fish operation

Entrepreneurship Type of SAE for students who want to conduct activities for a profit

Placement SAE Students are placed with an employer (full or part time)

Placement SAE Usually paid an hourly wage

Placement SAE Placement in Production – on a farm, ranch, greenhouse, or nursery

Placement SAE Placement in Agribusiness – at a veterinary center, florist, garden center

Improvement Activities Improve the appearance, convenience, efficiency, safety, or value of a home, farm, or ranch

Improvement SAE No wages No ownership

Improvement SAE Benefit by learning skills Examples: landscaping the home, building a fence, painting a room

Supplementary SAE Short-term activities outside the classroom

Supplementary SAE Skill specific, non-wage Examples: Changing oil in a mower, pruning a fruit tree

Changing a Spark Plug Example of a supplementary skill that should be recorded in a record book

Analytical SAE Students choose an agricultural problem not easily tested by experimentation

Analytical SAE Gather and evaluate data Example: Marketing plan for poinsettia crop

Experimental SAE Students conduct an agricultural experiment using the scientific method

Experimental SAE Comparing the effects of various fertilizers on plant growth

Record Book or Computer Best place to keep SAE records

Employability Skills