ILLINOIS INVITATIONAL AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION CDE

1 ILLINOIS . INVITATIONAL . AGRICULTURAL . EDUCATION CDE. PURPOSE. The purpose of the AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION Career Development Event is to provide students with the opportunity to develop skills essential to a career in AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION . Key components of a successful agriculture educator include being able to develop lessons within the AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION pathways using a variety of hands on teaching strategies to reach a multitude of different learners. GENERAL INFORMATION. Each chapter can submit one entry for the Ag Ed CDE. Participants must wear official dress. Contest will be broken into two parts, Preliminaries (Lesson Plan) and Finals (Demonstration & Judge's Questions). Lesson plans & supplemental material- powerpoints, handouts must be submitted for scoring to by April 10th The top ten participants (based on lesson plan scores) will be invited to the finals at state convention.

2 Participants will be notified by May 1st as to whether or not they placed in the top 10. EVENT PROCEDURES (PRELIMINARIES). AGRICULTURAL CONTENT AREA. Participant's lesson will be created for a 9th grade Introduction to Agriculture Class. Students can choose any content found in the Introduction to Agriculture Course Outline LESSON PLAN. Lesson plans must: Be completed using the template provided Be the results of the participant's own efforts Be submitted by the deadline above Lesson plans will be scored by a panel of three judges. The top ten highest scoring lesson plans will be demonstrated at the Finals at the ILLINOIS State FFA Convention by appointment on Tuesday morning. EVENT PROCEDURES (FINALS).

3 LESSON PLAN DEMONSTRATION. Participants will have 8-10 minutes to demonstrate a component of their lesson plan. Students will be penalized 10 points for every minute or part of a minute under eight minutes or over ten minutes. Participants will have 5 minutes to set up materials. Each contestant must bring their own instructional tools and materials ( flip charts, handouts, visual aids.) Only a laptop and projector will be provided in the presentation room. All materials (PowerPoint, Prezi, handouts, etc.) will be turned in with lesson plan and pre loaded onto the provided computer. Participants will be teaching their lesson to a group of 8-12 high school students (FFA members). JUDGE'S QUESTIONS. Participants will answer questions that judges developed based on their lesson plan and performance.

4 SCORING. Practicum Score Lesson Plan 100. Lesson Plan Demonstration 210. Judge's Questions 40. Total 350. Ties will be broken based on lesson plan score. Awards will be based upon the total points from the Lesson Plan, Lesson Plan Demonstration, and Judge's Questions. The top 3 will be recognized during CDE. award presentation at State Convention REFERENCES. This list of references is not intended to be all inclusive. Other sources may be used. Official FFA Manual Official FFA Student Handbook & Advisor's Guide NAAE Communities of Practice ILLINOIS Agriculture in the Classroom ILLINOIS . INVITATIONAL . AGRICULTURAL . EDUCATION CDE. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Special thanks to the following for providing input and feedback on this event: Dr.

5 Dick Steffen Mindy Bunselmeyer ILLINOIS State University ILLINOIS FFA. Dr. Seb Pense John Edgar Southern ILLINOIS University ILLINOIS FFA. Dr. Debra Korte Mr. Jess Smithers University of ILLINOIS ILLINOIS FCAE. Mr. Gary Ochs Mr. Kevin Larsen University of ILLINOIS District I FCAE. Dr. Erica Thieman Mr. Luke Allen University of ILLINOIS District IIFCAE. Dr. Andrew Baker Mrs. Jennifer Waters Western ILLINOIS University District III FCAE. Mr. Harley Hepner Ms. Megan Coy ILLINOIS State Board of EDUCATION District IV FCAE. Mr. Dean Dittmar District V FCAE. Special thanks to University of ILLINOIS Agriculture EDUCATION Department for developing the Lesson Plan Template and Example. AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION CDE.

6 Lesson Plan Rubric Competitor: _____School:_____. Lesson: _____. CATEGORY Exemplary Proficient Basic Unsatisfactory Score 10-9 8-7 6-5 4-0. Unit/Lesson Title The title is accurate, The title is accurate The title lacks focus The title is off base, creative, and has an and has an action- and does not utilize lacks organization, action-oriented title. oriented lesson title. an action-oriented and fails to present The problem area is The unit is accurate lesson title. The unit an action-oriented accurate and fits into but does not fit within lacks detail and is title. The unit does the Intro to Ag the defined area not clearly defined not fit within the curriculum within the area or curriculum curriculum Objectives Objectives are clear Objectives are Objectives are too Objectives are not and concise, pertinent pertinent to lesson broad and would be focused, written in a to lesson and written and written in an difficult to assess non-assessable in an assessable assessable manor manor and/or do not manor provide direction to the unit Interest Grabs the students' Grabs the students' Fails to engage the Focus, creativity, Approach attention, is creative, attention, well student, provides and student innovative.

7 Well thought out and little focus for the engagement is thought out, and engages the lesson lacking engages the students students Methodology Activities exist for Activities for each Activities for some Activities do not each objective taught, objective are objectives exist but engage the are creative and allow sufficient, address lack student students and lack students with various some different involvement and are key details in being learning styles to learning styles repetitive to an successful learning excel individual learning devices. style Checking for Evaluations of Evaluations of Evaluation of Evaluation of Understanding comprehension for comprehension are comprehension lack comprehension each objective are organized, directions organization and needs more effort, innovative and do an are present on each clarity, directions are lacks clarity and exceptional job giving section and different difficult to follow and direction clear direction, use methods are used do not use a variety different strategies.

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9 Information. Attached and student pertinent information. Attached to lesson to lesson plan learning. No items Attached to lesson plan. plan. attached. Materials, The material and The materials and The materials and The materials and Supplies, supplies list is complete supplies list is supplies list is supplies list is not References and identifies all visual complete but lacks incomplete and does utilized. The aids needed while detail regarding use of not detail all of the references list is teaching the lesson. items during visual aids used in the lacking detail or is The references listed instruction. The lesson. The completely missing. are complete, accurate references are listed in references are vague and provide credit via a manner where most and hard to locate for citations of work(s) of them can be located later use.

10 Utilized. for later use. Spelling, Lesson plan contains Lesson plan contains Lesson plan contains Lesson plan Grammar, no errors 1-3 errors 4-6 errors contains more than Punctuation 6 errors Total Points /100. AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION CDE. Lesson Plan Demonstration Rubric Competitor: _____School:_____. Lesson: _____. ANTICIPATORY SET. CATEGORY Exemplary Proficient Basic Unsatisfactory Score 10-9 8-7 6-5 4-0. Create Participant uses an Participant has a Participant attempts to Participant Interest original, creative and creative and relevant create interest in the make no relevant hook to engage hook to engage the content attempt to the students students create interest in Visual Aid Visual aid/ Visual aid/demonstration Visual aid/ Visual aid/.