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Agricultural Leadership
Course Title: Agricultural Leadership
Grade Level: 9-12
Required: Elective: X
Pre-requisites: Introduction to Agriscience
TextBook(s) Used For This Course:
Title: Author(s): Publisher: Edition: Date:
1. Interpersonal Skills Fritz, Brown, Lunde, & Prentice Hall 1st 1999
for Leadership Banset
2. ALEC 102 Student
Manual
Description of Course:
This course focuses on an introduction to the principles and practices of
positive interpersonal relationships for leadership development. Agricultural
Leadership places an emphasis on self-awareness, awareness of others, effective
interpersonal communication, and the building of trust relationships as a basis
for understanding and developing leadership. This course is taught utilizing an
experiential approach, including field projects and a supervised community
service project.
Categorical Objectives:
Students will:
1. Increase their own awareness of their behavioral preferences.
2. Understand their strengths and opportunities for improvement.
3. Appreciate the differences in others.
4. Identify opportunities and strategies for improved self-confidence.
5. Understand and practice effective listening.
6. List short term and life goals.
7. Identify and assess personal values.
8. Identify sources of and strategies for gaining non-coercive power and
influence in relationships.
9. Develop and apply conflict, stress and time management skills.
10. Practice using interpersonal skills to improve personal performance, the
quality of relationships, and to help others.
Writing Activities:
The students will:
1. Write a report about which agricultural career they would like to pursue and
what skills would be necessary to achieve that career.
2. Keep an accurate recordbook concerning their SAEP activities.
3. Write a scientific laboratory report in conducting a plant nutrition
experiment (living homework).
4. Keep a journal of thoughts based on newly learned agricultural information.
5. Write summaries on agricultural activities/careers/research to gain
Supervised Agricultural Experience points.
Multicultural Education Activities:
The students will:
1. Observe diverse role models in the classroom, at community sites and at
leadership workshops and conferences.
2. Use texts which provide accurate, specific, balanced representation of
minorities.
3. Have equitable attention.
4. Receive unbiased career information in the field of agriculture.
5. Appreciate the contributions and perspectives of diverse cultures in
agriculture.
6. Participate in a multicultural climate promoted by teacher example,
expectation and support, integrated instructional groups, task assignments, and
unbiased language.
7. Interact with counselors and teachers about the goals and content of the
agriculture curricula as it pertains to the students’ career goals.
