Course Title

Agricultural Leadership and Personal Development

Course Description

This is a one unit course that is designed to further develop leadership and personal skills. Content will include leadership theory and attributes, developing leadership skills, conflict resolution, planning and carrying out meetings, using parliamentary procedure, preparing and making speeches, organizing communication campaigns, managing tasks and teams, loyalty, personal appearance and health, and ethics. FFA and supervised experience will be included, as appropriate.

Contact

Kurt Murray
kmurr@okcareertech.org
(405) 743-5489

Knowledge and Skills

Unit AGL1: Leadership and personal development in agriculture (5 hours)

Benchmark AGL1-1: Students will discuss the meaning and importance of leadership in the agricultural industry.

Benchmark AGL1-2: Students will discuss the meaning and importance of personal development in agriculture.

Benchmark AGL1-3: Students will identify student and youth organization activities that promote leadership and personal development.

Unit AGL2: Leadership and personal development for career entry and advancement (5 hours)

Benchmark AGL2-1: Students will explain the role of leadership skills in agricultural occupation entry and advancement.

Benchmark AGL2-2: Students will name and describe important personal skills for success in agricultural careers.

Unit AGL3: Leadership theory (16 hours)

Benchmark AGL3-1: Students will list and explain the traits of effective leaders.

Benchmark AGL3-2: Students will name three leadership styles and explain each.

Benchmark AGL3-3: Students will explain the meaning of character and relate character traits to leadership skills.

Benchmark AGL3-4: Students will discuss the role of personal responsibility in leadership development.

Benchmark AGL3-5: Students will describe how leadership style may vary with the environment in which leadership is provided.

Benchmark AGL3-6: Students will explain the roles of ethics, honesty, and values in leadership.

Benchmark AGL3-7: Students will discuss the importance of listening and identify ways to improve listening skills.

Unit AGL4: Social skills (17 hours)

Benchmark AGL4-1: Students will define social skills and discuss importance in leadership and personal development.

Benchmark AGL4-2: Students will list important areas of social skills and explain how each of these is important and can be developed.

Benchmark AGL4-3: Students will demonstrate appropriate dining behavior.

Benchmark AGL4-4: Students will demonstrate appropriate greetings, introductions, and proper handshaking techniques.

Benchmark AGL4-5: Students will relate personal appearance and hygiene to social skills and indicate qualities associated with dress and grooming.

Benchmark AGL4-6: Students will explain the importance of fitness, diet, and rest, including appropriate health and dental care.

Benchmark AGL4-7: Students will explain the meaning and importance of stress and indicate approaches for coping with stress.

Benchmark AGL4-8: Students will discuss personal conflict and identify approaches to use in reducing conflict.

Benchmark AGL4-9: Students will explain the importance of loyalty and keeping commitments.

Benchmark AGL4-10: Students will demonstrate appropriate oral communication skills in everyday conversations, including telephone usage.

Unit AGL5: Life goals (12 hours)

Benchmark AGL5-1: Students will explain the meaning and importance of goal setting.

Benchmark AGL5-2: Students will name and distinguish among the kinds of goals.

Benchmark AGL5-3: Students will prepare a written statement of personal goals along with a plan for achievement.

Benchmark AGL5-4: Students will explain the meaning of risk and its role in attaining goals.

Benchmark AGL5-5: Students will discuss self-concept and name approaches in developing a positive self-concept.

Benchmark AGL5-6: Students will explain motivation and name approaches for motivation of self and others.

Unit AGL6: Group leadership (19 hours)

Benchmark AGL6-1: Students will explain the meaning and importance of consensus and team building.

Benchmark AGL6-2: Students will discuss the importance of meetings and how to conduct a good meeting.

Benchmark AGL6-3: Students will demonstrate how to plan for a meeting, including the development of an order of business.

Benchmark AGL6-4: Students will demonstrate qualities of the presiding officer at a meeting.

Benchmark AGL6-5: Students will demonstrate skills in keeping and reporting minutes of a meeting.

Unit AGL7: Parliamentary procedure (20 hours)

Benchmark AGL7-1: Students will explain the meaning and importance of parliamentary procedure.

Benchmark AGL7-2: Students will identify and phrase various motions, including principal, privileged, incidental, subsidiary, and unclassified motions.

Benchmark AGL7-3: Students will discuss the meaning of a second and how to make a second to a motion.

Benchmark AGL7-4: Students will demonstrate methods of voting and how results are determined and reported.

Benchmark AGL7-5: Students will explain the use of committees and demonstrate how to establish committees and receive reports in a meeting.

Benchmark AGL7-6: Students will demonstrate the abilities of members and the presiding officer in conducting a meeting that uses parliamentary procedure.

Unit AGL8: Public speaking (19 hours)

Benchmark AGL8-1: Students will name and distinguish among the kinds of public speeches.

Benchmark AGL8-2: Students will demonstrate the characteristics of a good public speaker.

Benchmark AGL8-3: Students will prepare and deliver a speech, including developing an outline, gathering and organizing information, and using visuals.

Benchmark AGL8-4: Students will demonstrate appropriate posture and podium use in giving a speech.

Unit AGL9: Agricultural education (7 hours)

Benchmark AGL9-1: Students will appropriately integrate and apply leadership and personal development skills in their supervised experience.

Benchmark AGL9-2: Students will identify opportunities for participation and advancement in the FFA related to leadership and personal development.

Agricultural Education I: Core – CTTC

Accountability Measures, Assessments, or Evaluation Procedures

Agricultural Education I: Core – CTTC

Industry Alignments

Curriculum Resources

FFA: Learn, Grow, Become - CIMC

www.okcimc.com

Mpower: An Officer's Guide to Chaptr Leadership, 2nd edition. 2005. National FFA Organization.
www.ffaunlimited.org

Leadership: Personal Development and Career Success, Ricketts.  1997.
www.delmarlearning.com

Developing Leadership and Personal Skills, Hunter, Stewart, Scheil, Terry, Jr., and Fraze. 1997. Interstate Publishers. 
www.pearsonschool.com

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