OFI 287: How And Why To Teach Agriculture | Ellen Thompson | Project Director Of The National Teach Ag Campaign

 SHOW NOTES

KEY IDEAS: 

Today’s episode is a little different for an FFA SAE Edition.  This rarely happens, but we do not have a student guest for today’s show.  Instead I chose to feature Ellen Thompson, the Director Of The National Teach Ag Campaign.

This was a dual purpose interview.  National FFA had asked me to interview Ellen to discuss National Teach Ag Day.  However, Ellen had so much great information about ag education that I just kept asking her questions.  Soon, we had so much content that there was no way that “FFA Today” could ever use it.

I got permission from Ellen and National FFA to use the whole interview here so you could hear it all.  Highlights of this episode include:

• What is really going on with ag teacher retention in the United States
• You can become an ag teacher without a teaching credential
• The benefits of teaching agriculture
• The successes of ag education in the United States

I hope you enjoy this episode.  If you tune into my FFA SAE episodes and like hearing the stories of the students, you will get a lot of the background of how agricultural education and the people that instruct and advise those students work.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

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