Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education

PROGRAM EVALUATION PROFILE
Instructor: Dennis Crawford PID: 33243
Program: Agriculture Business Management
School Canadian Valley Technology Center, Chickasha
Date: November 6, 2007
Team: Kurt Murray and Dale Beerwinkle
   
*Refer to Specific Recommendations for Improvement

 

Standard
Met

Standard
Not Met*
STANDARD 1 Instructional Planning and Organization X  
STANDARD 2 Instructional Materials Utilization X  
STANDARD 3 Qualified Instructional Personnel X  
STANDARD 4 Enrollment and Student/Teacher Ratio X  
STANDARD 5 Equipment and Supplies X  
STANDARD 6 Instsructional Facilities X  
STANDARD 7 Safety Training and Practices X  
STANDARD 8 Program Advisory Committee and Community Relations X  
STANDARD 9 Leadership Development N/A  
STANDARD 10 Coordination Activities X  
STANDARD 11 Student Accounting and Reports X  

 

PROGRAM EVALUATION SUMMARY
School: Canadian Valley Technology Center, Chickasha
Program: Agricutural Business Management
Chairperson: Kurt Murray
   
INTRODUCTION

The Agriculture Business Management (ABM) program at Canadian Valley Technology Center, Chickasha Campus, primarily provides training to farm and ranch families. The training helps them to make better management decisions by assisting them to learn better recordkeeping practice, analyze the situation these records help describe, propose alternatives, and decide what to do about the situation. The program serves approximately 37 farming/ranching operations and 63 individuals.


COMMENDATIONS OR STRENGTHS

The primary strength of the program is its flexibility to reach the needs of busy adult learners. Most agricultural families rely on one or two off-farm incomes to make the farming lifestyle work. The program meets the needs of these families by providing one-to-one learning moments, beginning with goal setting, proceeding to computerized recordkeeping, then evaluating the family's financial situation, and finally the family making sound management decisions to change the situation if necessary. This instruction qualifies a majority of these families to continue a relationship with the Farm Service Agency of the United States Deparment of Agariculture (FSA USDA) lending programs becuase they have met the agency's borrower training requirements.

The coordinator works well with the advisory committee. The group suggested working on a commodity marketing training strategy. The no-till farming series with Chisholm Trail Farm Credit and other partners is another example of taking action on the committee's input. The instructor is recognized as a leader of the statewide ABM instructors due to his tenure among the group and he is often asked to represent the group at Oklahoma Department of Caree and Technology Education meetings.
SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT

(These recommendations address Standard Not Met and should be implemented in order that those program standards can be met.)

All applicable program minimum standards were met.

 
GENERAL SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT

 
STANDARD 2 Instructional Materials Utilization
The coordinator should maintain resources that are current and relevant to today's agricultural industry by utilizing resources that are state-of-the-art with modernized agriculture.

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STANDARD 9 Leadership Developoment

The coordinator should continue to network with existing Agricultural Education Education programs in the district. He could offer assistance to new instructors in the area with farm business rlated activities and with FFA student organization activities.
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