National Quality

Program Standards

New Jersey State Rollout09/25/2009

Creators of NQPS

NCAE

B&I NAAE

AAAE USDE

NASAE NFFA

Council

Alumni

NFRBMEA

PAS NYFEA

ACTE

7 Keys of Local Program Success

• Program Design and Instruction (Classroom and Laboratory)

• Experiential Learning• Leadership Development• School and Community Partnerships• Marketing• Certified Agriculture Teachers and

Professional Growth• Program Planning and Evaluation

Why National Quality Program Standards?

• We lack consistency in our delivery across the country.

• Some states had no program standards at all.

• To help focus the local program toward common goals and features.

• Validate what we do in the academic community.

• Engage partners in the delivery of agricultural education.

How do we use the NQPS’s?

• It is a formative assessment of where you are right now in your delivery of a total agricultural education experience.

• It is NOT high stakes testing.• It is for guidance and support.• It is ideas and resources to help

strengthen the teacher and the program.

What are the desired outcomes of using NQPS’s?

• BALANCE of Program Quality• Program improvement (thus the name)• Community/Administration involvement• Increase teacher retention• Increase student learning• Better circumstance for the effective

agriculture teacher/program• Provide direction as to

prioritization/focus of improvement

Forces of Agricultural Education

Classroom

Instruction

(Rigor)

Experiential Learning

(Relevance)

Leadership Development

(Relationships)

Local Team Ag Ed

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Parents Students

Fellow

Teachers

Local Foundation

Successful Agricultural Education Department

Assessment Tool

• Rating scale– 4: Exemplary or Advanced– 3: Promising or Proficient– 2: Improving or Basic– 1: Struggling or Needs Improvement– 0: Non-existent and Where is it?

Summary Page

• Record score for each indicator• Rank each standard for 0-4

• 0 = non-existent• 1 = struggling• 2 = improving• 3 = promising• 4 = exemplary

• Print each result page for your records and referral.

Priority Area(s) for Focus in 2009-2010 School Year

• As a team, identify the 1, possibly 2 areas that you will focus on improving for the coming school year

• You will develop an action plan outline that will ID potential strategies to be implemented toward improving the priority area(s)

Next steps

• Share your results with other members of your Local Team Ag Ed

• Register with the NAAE Communities of Practice (www.naae.org )

• Form/reinvigorate/energize your advisory council

• Make this your professional growth plan for 2009-2010 school year