2023-2024 Course Standards

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Essential standards (highlighted in green below) are big, powerful ideas that are necessary and essential for students to know to be successful in a course. Essential standards identify the appropriate verb and cognitive process intended for the student to accomplish. Essential standards provide value throughout a student's career, in other courses, and translate to the next level of education or world of work.

Objectives/Indicators (rows not highlighted in green below) provide another level of detail for each Essential Standard.

Adapted or Adopted Course includes essential standards and, in many cases, specific objectives/indicators aligned with business and industry standards and/or criteria for credentials or certifications. The course standards are designed using the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy (RBT). If the POL is a CTE State Assessment, the course is written at the level of the ESSENTIAL STANDARD and assesses the intended outcome of the sum of its objectives/indicators.

The six NC Essential Employability Skills are Communication, Ethics, Problem Solving, Professionalism, Resource Management, and Teamwork. These skills are covered among the course essential standards and objectives/indicators as listed beside each. NC CTE curriculum provides and supports career awareness, career exploration, career development, technical skill development, and career readiness where six Essential Employability Skills are included in CTE Curriculum Standards. CTE builds a career and college ready workforce through the K-12 pipeline and provides a consistent and 'common language' for identification of the six Essential Employability Skills.

Career and Technical Education conducts all activities and procedures without regard to race, color, creed, national origin, gender, or disability. The responsibility to adhere to safety standards and best professional practices is the duty of the practitioners, teachers, students, and/or others who apply the contents of this document.

This blueprint has been reviewed by business and industry representatives for technical content and appropriateness for the industry.

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Standard/Obj #: The essential standard is denoted by the digits before the dot; objectives/indicators are indicated by the final 2 digits.
Standard: Essential standard and specific objective/indicator statements per essential standard. Each essential standard statement or specific objective/indicator begins with an action verb and makes a complete sentence when combined with The learner will be able to... Outcome behavior in each essential standard or objective/indicator statement is denoted by the verb plus its object.
Course Weight: Shows the relative importance of each essential standard or objective/indicator. Course weight is used to help determine the percentage of total class time that is spent on each objective/indicator.
RBT Designation: Classification of outcome behavior in essential standards and indicator statements in Dimensions according to the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy:
Cognitive Process Dimension: 1 Remember, 2 Understand, 3 Apply, 4 Analyze, 5 Evaluate, 6 Create.
Knowledge Dimension: A Factual Knowledge, B Conceptual Knowledge, C Procedural Knowledge.

AU22 Sustainable Agriculture Production II

Course Type: Developed

Standard/Obj #	Standard/Objective	Course Weight	RBT Designation	Essential Employability Skills
1.00	Understand leadership qualities needed for successful employment in sustainable agriculture.	10%	-	-
1.01	Understand leadership qualities and career management skills needed in the field of sustainable agriculture.	3%	C2 Procedural Knowledge - Understand	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
1.02	Apply public speaking skills.	4%	C2 Procedural Knowledge - Understand	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
1.03	Apply parliamentary procedure skills.	3%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
2.00	Understand Supervised Agricultural Experience.	10%	-	-
2.01	Understand SAE components and applications to work based learning.	3%	C2 Procedural Knowledge - Understand	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
2.02	Understand financial statements and recordkeeping.	3%	C2 Procedural Knowledge - Understand	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
2.03	Implement a SAE.	4%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
3.00	Understand a marketing and business plan for a sustainable grower.	13%	-	-
3.01	Develop a marketing plan for a sustainable grower.	6%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
3.02	Create a business plan for a sustainable grower.	7%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
4.00	Understand sustainable communities.	8%	-	-
4.01	Understand local and regional food systems.	4%	C2 Procedural Knowledge - Understand	Communication Problem Solving Resource Management
4.02	Understand how sustainable agriculture globally contributes to feeding a growing population.	4%	C2 Procedural Knowledge - Understand	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Resource Management
5.00	Understand energy resources in sustainable agriculture.	11%	-	-
5.01	Understand renewable energy.	3%	C2 Procedural Knowledge - Understand	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Resource Management
5.02	Understand energy efficiency and conservation in sustainable agriculture production.	3%	C2 Procedural Knowledge - Understand	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Resource Management
5.03	Apply energy efficiency and conservation in sustainable agriculture production.	5%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork
6.00	Understand emerging technologies in 21st century agricultural production.	11%	-	-
6.01	Understand precision agriculture.	3%	C2 Procedural Knowledge - Understand	Communication Problem Solving Resource Management
6.02	Understand applications of biotechnology.	4%	C2 Procedural Knowledge - Understand	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Resource Management
6.03	Understand breeding programs in agricultural production.	4%	C2 Procedural Knowledge - Understand	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Resource Management
7.00	Understand food safety in sustainable agriculture production.	10%	-	-
7.01	Understand Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) to ensure food safety standards for production, post-harvest handling, processing, and distribution.	4%	C2 Procedural Knowledge - Understand	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Resource Management
7.02	Apply Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) to agricultural production.	6%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Resource Management
8.00	Apply methods of sustainable agriculture to produce an agricultural commodity.	27%	-	-
8.01	Understand apiculture.	4%	C2 Procedural Knowledge - Understand	Communication Problem Solving Resource Management
8.02	Understand aquaponic and hydroponic production.	4%	C2 Procedural Knowledge - Understand	Communication Problem Solving Resource Management
8.03	Understand mushroom production.	4%	C2 Procedural Knowledge - Understand	Communication Problem Solving Resource Management
8.04	Understand vermicomposting.	4%	C2 Procedural Knowledge - Understand	Communication Problem Solving Resource Management
8.05	Apply methods of sustainable agriculture to produce an agricultural commodity.	11%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Communication Ethics Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management Teamwork