Agricultural Leadership I
(6809-A)

Department of Agricultural and Extension Education
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, North Carolina

 
Agricultural Leadership I is a year-long course designed for students in grades 9-12 in North Carolina public secondary schools. It is also designed for home schooled students as well as students taking Agricultural Education in private schools. It is the primary course for students enrolled in the leadership component of the Agricultural Education curriculum. It is a technical course designed to introduce students to the fundamentals of leadership development. The textbook, Developing Leadership and Personal Skills, written by Sharon Hunter, Marshall Stewart, Brenda Scheil, Robert Terry, Jr., and Steven D. Faze, and published by Interstate Publishers, Inc., Danville, Illinois, copyright 1997, has been adopted as the major content of this course. You may order this textbook by writing:

Interstate Publishers, Inc.
510 North Vermilion Street
PO Box 50
Danville, IL 61834-0050
Telephone: 1-800-843-4774
Fax: 217-446-9706
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Course Outline:
Week 1: Determine Who and What is Leadership
Week 2: Develop Personal Responsibility in Leadership
Week 3: Investigate Ethics for a Good Agricultural Leader
Week 4: Investigate Social Behavior Necessary for a Good Agricultural Leader
Week 5: Develop One-on-One Communication Skills for a Leader
Week 6: Develop Non-verbal communication necessary for a Leader
Week 7: Develop People Skills Necessary for Agricultural Leadership
Week 8: Practice Keeping Commitments Necessary for Agricultural Leadership
Week 9: Mid-term Exam
Week 10: Develop Agricultural Leadership Roles and Behavior
Week 11: Apply Systems Thinking to Agricultural Leadership Development
Week 12: Assess Personal Mastery Principles as They Relate to Agricultural Leadership Development Meetings
Week 13: Determine Perceptions Necessary for Agricultural Leadership
Week 14: Develop Agricultural Leadership by Speaking in Public (A)
Week 15: Develop Agricultural Leadership by Speaking in Public (B)
Week 16: Develop Agricultural Leadership Through the Leadership Organization
Week 17: Develop Agricultural Leadership Through the History of the Leadership Organization
Week 18: Final Exam

Go to the NC State Department of Agricultural and Extension Education Home Page

Agricultural & Extension Education at the Vernon G. James Research & Extension Center

This page (http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/plymouth/aee/online/agLDR1/) was created by Benjie Forrest, Eastern Region Agricultural Education Coordinator, and Bruce A. Emmons, Area Specialized Agent, Information Management, on October 10, 2001.

Last revised on November 19, 2001.