Foundational SAE Portfolio & Completion Guide - Year #1 (9th grade/Freshman)

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This guide explains how students complete a foundational SAE portfolio each semester and earn points toward a quarter and semester grade. It sets participation rules across grade levels, including limits on selecting activities above the current year while allowing work from earlier grades if not yet finished. For Year #1 (9th grade/Freshman), it details required tasks and point values, including career interest inventory and agricultural career pathway exploration, with step-by-step instructions for researching jobs, completing tables, and logging learning and time in the AET.

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Year #1 (9th grade/Freshman)

Career Interest Inventory & Career Exploration (15 Points)

Agriculture Career Pathway Exploration (15 Points)

Foundational SAE Portfolio & Completion Guide Student's Name: The intended purpose of this portfolio is to serve as an information and interest collection tool for you to utilize as you begin selecting and preparing for potential careers in your future. This portfolio will also serve as a set of instructions for completing and receiving a course grade for your foundational SAE requirement each semester. The following portfolio is broken into 4 different sections based on the grade level/year that you intended to complete each selection of tasks. If for whatever reason you do not take an agriculture science course during one of the given grade levels, you are encouraged to still select items to complete from previous grades while still carrying out the activities suggested for your current grade level. A student is not allowed to select activities to complete that are at a higher grade level than their current grade, or year of agriculture class. However, a student in a higher grade may select an activity from a lower grade level if he or she has not yet completed that activity in a previous Ag. Class. The tasks listed for completion in each grade level are each assigned a point value, and upon successful completion points will be awarded to help determine a student’s SAE grade for the quarter and semester. During the first semester that you are enrolled in an agriculture science course of any given school year, you will be required to complete an acceptable number of provided activities that add up to equal at least 10 total points by the end of the semester. To promote progress throughout the semester, it is expected that 10 points are to be accumulated, or sufficient progress to complete tasks must be demonstrated to the agriculture science instructor by the end of the first quarter of each semester, or other announced deadline. Year #1 (9th grade/Freshman) Career Interest Inventory & Career Exploration: 15 Points This activity is designed for students who have not yet considered which type of career they may be interested in pursuing, or determined what type of skills and interests they may possess and what careers are associated with those interests. Go to the following website HYPERLINK "https://www.mynextmove.org/explore/ip" \h https://www.mynextmove.org/explore/ip ,click next in the bottom right corner, and follow the instructions and answer the questions provided. Once Complete, list your top 4 Interest areas below, and click on each word, and describe each of your 4 top interest areas as well Continue and follow instructions until you come to the page that says “Select a Job Zone”. Make sure that you have clicked the interest area in the upper left hand corner that is the highest value (tallest bar) for you. Begin by then selecting Zone 1 and continue to click “NEXT” until you have a list of potential careers to select from. You are required to select 2 potential careers from each of the 5 zones from the list provided: Click on the career and a new tab will open with a fact sheet about that career. On that sheet you need to examine/complete the following information in the following provided table. After you have selected two careers from zone #1, click the #2 at the top of the App to switch to zone two. Repeat for zones 3,4,&5. Remember you will highlight 2 careers from each zone for 10 total careers. Feel free to look through as many jobs as you would like in each category before you pick your final two in each preparation zone. Zone #: Name of Career:Copy and paste the URL of the career webpage here: Watch the Career Video (If Available) & summarize in your own words what you do in this career: List and describe 2 specific things you can do on the job in that career. List 4 specific subjects (not the bold words) that are included in the “knowledge” section Choose 3 specific skills (not the bold words) that you feel you have or would like to develop that apply to this career Choose 3 Spe

FAQs

What is the purpose of the foundational SAE portfolio in Year #1?

It collects information and builds student interest as they select and prepare for potential careers. It also provides instructions for completing and receiving a course grade each semester.

How does the career interest inventory activity work, and what must students produce?

Students complete tasks on the mynextmove site, then select two careers from each of five job zones for 10 total careers. They summarize career facts in a provided table and write an AET journal entry with learned takeaways and time spent.

What does the agriculture career pathway exploration require?

Students use the Ag Career Explorer to choose five career focus areas. For each focus area, they watch a video, write a description, select two careers, and fill in details such as career name, URL, brief description, and recommended high school courses, then complete the required journal logging.

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