1. Determining the Benefits of an SAE
Veterinary Science Program
JATC

2. Objectives At the completion of this unit, students will be able to:
Explain the importance of goals and career ladders.
Define supervised agricultural experience.
Explain the benefits of supervised agricultural experience programs.

3. Importance of goals and career ladders
A career is the area of work a person pursues.
Careers may involve several jobs from entry level as a teen to retirement.
Self-employed people work for themselves.
A person who organizes and manages a business, and assumes risk for the sake of profit, is known as an entrepreneur.
Many people work for other people.
They are called employees.

4. Importance of goals and career ladders
A goal is something you want to achieve.
Goals are best achieved when they are set and written down.
Goal setting is the process of making goals.
Goals should be practical, challenging, and attainable.
For each goal, ways and means of achieving should be established.
Target dates should be set to determine when goals are to be completed.

5. Importance of goals and career ladders
A career ladder is the upward movement of people in their careers.
People begin at a lower-level job and advance to higher-level jobs.
This is known as climbing a career ladder.
Moving upward depends on productivity.
Steps up the ladder bring more responsibilities and greater challenges.

6. Importance of goals and career ladders
Reaching a career goal usually requires moving up a career ladder.
Progress often requires risk.
Changing jobs usually involves some risk.
Successful people usually take risks in their careers.

7. Supervised Experience in Agriculture
Supervised agricultural experience (SAE)
Involve practical agricultural activities performed by students outside of scheduled classroom and laboratory time
SAEs provide a method in agricultural education for students to receive real-world experience.
Real-world experience means conducting the activity in the daily routine of our society.

8. Supervised Experience in Agriculture
SAE is the application of class instruction in agriculture.
Numerous experiences can be enjoyed through SAEs.
SAEs can help students explore and identify interests.
SAEs can allow students to earn money.

9. Supervised Experience in Agriculture
Supervised agriculture experience programs provide opportunities for learning by doing.
SAEs are a part of the comprehensive agricultural program.
Three components of an agricultural program include:
Classroom/laboratory instruction.
FFA program.
SAE Program.

10. Supervised Experience in Agriculture
Students use classroom instruction to:
Learn how to plan their SAE program.
Decide what types of SAEs are available.
Choose activities for their own SAE.
Make appropriate arrangements with parents, teachers, and employers.

11. Supervised Experience in Agriculture
SAE programs overlap with the FFA through activities that encourage students to do more with their SAEs.
FFA also has contests that develop skills useful in their SAEs.
Awards are available through the FFA for SAEs.

12. Benefits of an SAE program
SAE programs benefit:
Students
Schools
Employers
Communities
Parents
Teachers
SAEs provide the opportunity for students to learn with assistance from:
Teachers
Parents
Employers
Other adults experienced in the particular area

13. Benefits of an SAE program
Some important purposes and benefits of SAE programs include:
Assisting in making career and educational decisions.
Providing an opportunity for students to explore various agricultural subjects.
Developing self-confidence.
Providing educational and agricultural experiences in a specialized area of agriculture.

14. Benefits of an SAE program
Some important purposes and benefits of SAE programs include:
Giving practical meaning to courses studied in school.
Providing an opportunity to earn money while learning.
Developing employability and thinking skills.
Creating an opportunity to earn money after graduation.
Applying record keeping skills.

15. Benefits of an SAE program
Some important purposes and benefits of SAE programs include:
Promoting recognition for individual achievement.
Promoting money management skills.
Helping to teach good work ethics.
Helping to develop the ability to assume responsibility.
Assisting in making the transition from school to work.
Providing an opportunity to become established in an agricultural business/career.