1. Employability Skills AU

2. Major Components of Agriscience Program
Classroom and laboratory instruction
FFA
SAE

3. Gaining Experience!! SAE Question: Answer:
How can you gain experience to get a job (or prepare for college)?
Answer:
Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE)
SAE

4. What is SAE?
Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE) Programs consist of planned practical activities conducted outside of class time in which students develop and apply agricultural knowledge and skills.

5. SAE
Is for every Student

6. Purpose of SAE 1. Explore a variety of skills and jobs
2. Gain valuable experience in an ag. related field
3. Earn Money
4. Learn to keep records
5. Win Awards

7. SAE Areas 1. Exploratory 2. Entrepreneurship 3. Placement
4. Improvement
5. Analytical
6. Experimental
7. Supplementary

8. Exploratory SAE Explore different ag. careers Short in Duration
Develop awareness of careers
Become literate in Agriculture

9. Observing/Assisting a veterinarian Interviewing a landscape contractor
Exploratory Examples
Observing/Assisting a veterinarian
Interviewing a landscape contractor
Observing/Assisting a welder
Attending a Career Fair

10. Entrepreneurship Own your own business Assume Financial risk
May be a production or agribusiness enterprise

11. SAE “Enterprise” A type of animal or plant Cattle Poinsettia Crop
Sheep
Poultry

12. Production Entrepreneurship
Raise a commodity for profit:
Produce vegetables
Raise horses / livestock
Grow field crops
Grow nursery crops

13. Agribusiness Entrepreneurship
Own / operate an AG related business
Pet Sitting
Feed sales
Running a pay-to-fish operation
Horseback riding lessons
Landscaping business

14. The students are employed by an agricultural related business
Placement Activity
The students are employed by an agricultural related business
Typically paid an hourly wage

15. Placement Jobs Work on a farm Work in a greenhouse
Work at a florist, feeds tore or landscaping business

16. Improvement Activities
Improve the appearance, convenience, efficiency, safety, or value of a home, farm, or ranch
No wages earned
No ownership necessary

17. Improvement Examples Landscape your grandparents home Build a fence
Build a storage shed
Assist with landscape maintenance
Grow container herbs/vegetables

18. Analytical SAE
Choose an AG problem not easily tested by experimentation
Gather and evaluate data
Marketing plan for a Poinsettia crop
Research and present the effects of temperature change in the yield of production corn

19. Experimental SAE Conduct an Ag experiment using the scientific method
Comparing various fertilizers and their effect on plant growth

20. Supplemental SAE Short term activities No wages
Helps you learn skills you may not normally have an opportunity to learn
Skill Specific, non-wage earning
Change a spark plug
Change oil in a lawnmower
Mowing a baseball infield
Changing a tire

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