# 23 Ill. Adm. Code 27.400: Section 27.400 Agricultural Education

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## Section

- **Citation:** 23 Ill. Adm. Code 27.400
- **Heading:** Section 27.400 Agricultural Education
- **Jurisdiction:** Illinois
- **Kind:** Regulations
- **Status:** In force
- **Text as of:** August 14, 2026
- **Source:** Compiled text
- **Location:** Illinois Administrative Code / Title 23 EDUCATION AND CULTURAL RESOURCES / CHAPTER I: STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION / Part 27 STANDARDS FOR ENDORSEMENTS IN SPECIFIC TEACHING FIELDS / Section 27.400 Agricultural Education

## Text

Section 27.400  Agricultural Education
By October 1, 2024, all candidates for an endorsement in
Agricultural Education will be required to complete a program aligned to the
Standards for School-Based Agricultural Education Teacher Preparation Programs (2017),
published by the American Association for Agricultural Education, and available
at http://aaaeonline.org/Standards-for-Teacher-Preparation. (No later
amendments to or editions of these guidelines are incorporated.)  The standards
effective until September 30, 2024 are as follows:
a)         The competent agricultural education teacher understands the
foundations of work, the career development process, occupational skill standards,
and workplace skill requirements.
1)         Knowledge Indicators – The competent agricultural education
teacher:
A)        understands the history, organization, and future of work and
how work relates to needs and functions of the economy and society.
B)        understands career development concepts, the relationship
between work and learning, and the career planning process.
C)        understands the use of the relevant Illinois Occupational Skill
Standards in the development of curriculum (see "Agriculture Machinery
Service Technician" (2001), "Agriculture Sales and Marketing
Cluster" (2001), "Floristry Cluster" (1997),
"Greenhouse/Nursery Cluster" (1997), "Landscape Technician
Cluster" (2002), "Swine Production Cluster" (2000), "Retail
Garden Center Cluster" (1997), and "Row Crop Production Cluster"
vant Illinois Occupational Skill
Standards in the development of curriculum (see "Agriculture Machinery
Service Technician" (2001), "Agriculture Sales and Marketing
Cluster" (2001), "Floristry Cluster" (1997),
"Greenhouse/Nursery Cluster" (1997), "Landscape Technician
Cluster" (2002), "Swine Production Cluster" (2000), "Retail
Garden Center Cluster" (1997), and "Row Crop Production Cluster"
(2000), all published by the Illinois Occupational Skill Standards and
Credentialing Council, 2450 Foundation Drive, Springfield IL 62703-5432; no
later editions or revisions are incorporated).
2)         Performance Indicators – The competent agricultural education
teacher:
A)        relates workplace cultural expectations to workplace skills.
B)        develops partnerships with members of the business community to
provide learning opportunities for students.
C)        provides advice in the career planning process.
D)        selects appropriate skill standards for the program areas.
b)         The competent agricultural education teacher demonstrates the
ability to plan, deliver, and evaluate instruction based upon knowledge of subject
matter in the field; student organizations; student, community and work needs;
curriculum goals; and findings of educational research.
1)         Knowledge Indicators – The competent agricultural education
teacher:
A)        understands pedagogy unique to the discipline.
B)        understands the rationale for integrating student
organizations' activities into the curriculum.
C)        understands professional literature relating to specific
content area and to workplace needs.
D)        understands economic/socio-economic conditions, patterns of
business development, and changing labor and career opportunities and their
impact on the relevancy of classroom instruction.
2)         Performance Indicators – The competent agricultural education
teacher:
A)        utilizes appropriate pedagogy unique to the individual
discipline within career and technical education
eds.
D)        understands economic/socio-economic conditions, patterns of
business development, and changing labor and career opportunities and their
impact on the relevancy of classroom instruction.
2)         Performance Indicators – The competent agricultural education
teacher:
A)        utilizes appropriate pedagogy unique to the individual
discipline within career and technical education.
B)        creates learning environments and classroom activities that
develop life/workplace skills and knowledge in the discipline.
C)        identifies and utilizes educational research findings that
justify teaching strategies.
D)        applies curricular content and processes in order to achieve
the goals of student organizations.
E)        applies post-secondary admission standards and occupational
skill standards when designing curriculum and assessment.
F)         designs appropriate assessment plans for students.
G)        develops collaborative partnerships with students, colleagues,
community members, business/industry, and parents to maximize resources.
H)        participates in appropriate professional organizations and
develops a plan for continued personal and professional growth.
I)         plans, organizes, and manages laboratories/technical
facilities for instruction that meet diverse needs of students (i.e., safety,
inventory, filing, requisitioning equipment and materials, maintenance,
budgeting).
J)         implements laws and policies relating to safe environments and
incorporates appropriate safety standards, healthy practices, and ergonomic
needs.
c)         The competent agricultural education teacher understands the
process of reading and demonstrates instructional abilities to teach reading in
the content area of agricultural education
ent and materials, maintenance,
budgeting).
J)         implements laws and policies relating to safe environments and
incorporates appropriate safety standards, healthy practices, and ergonomic
needs.
c)         The competent agricultural education teacher understands the
process of reading and demonstrates instructional abilities to teach reading in
the content area of agricultural education.
1)         Knowledge Indicators – The competent agricultural education
teacher:
A)        understands that the reading process is the construction of
meaning through the interactions of the reader's background knowledge and
experiences, the information in the text, and the purpose of the reading
situation.
B)        recognizes the relationships among the four language arts
(reading, writing, listening, and speaking), and knows how to provide
opportunities to integrate these through instruction.
C)        understands how to design, select, modify and evaluate
materials in terms of the reading needs of the learner.
D)        understands the importance of and encourages the use of
literature for adolescents in the curriculum and for independent reading.
E)        understands the relationship between oral and silent reading.
F)         understands the role of subject-area vocabulary in developing
reading comprehension.
G)        understands the importance of the unique study strategies
required of the specific content area in developing reading comprehension.
H)        understands the importance of the relationship between
assessment and instruction in planning.
2)         Performance Indicators – The competent agricultural education
teacher:
A)        plans and teaches lessons for students that develop
comprehension of content-area materials through instructional practices that
include analyzing critically, evaluating sources, synthesizing, and summarizing
material.
B)        plans and teaches lessons on how to monitor comprehension and
correct confusions and misunderstandings that arise during reading
cultural education
teacher:
A)        plans and teaches lessons for students that develop
comprehension of content-area materials through instructional practices that
include analyzing critically, evaluating sources, synthesizing, and summarizing
material.
B)        plans and teaches lessons on how to monitor comprehension and
correct confusions and misunderstandings that arise during reading.
C)        plans and models use of comprehension strategies before,
during, and after reading of text.
D)        provides opportunities for students to develop content-area
vocabulary through instructional practices that develop connections and
relationships among words, use of context clues, and understanding of
connotative and denotative meaning of words.
E)        plans and teaches lessons that encourage students to write
about the content read in order to improve understanding.
F)         plans and teaches lessons to help students develop study
strategies that include previewing and preparing to read text effectively,
recognizing organizational patterns unique to informational text, and using
graphic organizers as an aid for recalling information.
G)        plans and teaches units that require students to carry out
research or inquiry using multiple texts, including electronic resources.
H)        provides continuous monitoring of students' progress through
observations, work samples, and various informal reading assessments.
I)         analyzes and evaluates the quality and appropriateness of
instructional materials in terms of readability, content, length, format,
illustrations, and other pertinent factors.
J)         promotes the development of an environment that includes
classroom libraries that foster reading.
d)         The competent agricultural education teacher understands the
curriculum in the area of agricultural science.
1)         Knowledge Indicators – The competent agricultural education
teacher:
A)        understands scientific principles and the scientific method of
investigation
J)         promotes the development of an environment that includes
classroom libraries that foster reading.
d)         The competent agricultural education teacher understands the
curriculum in the area of agricultural science.
1)         Knowledge Indicators – The competent agricultural education
teacher:
A)        understands scientific principles and the scientific method of
investigation.
B)        understands biological concepts and principles in the animal
sciences.
C)        understands biological concepts and principles of agronomic
crops.
D)        understands characteristics, components, and properties of
soil.
2)         Performance Indicators – The competent agricultural education
teacher:
A)        directs students' experimentation, following the scientific
method of investigation.
B)        applies biological concepts and principles to agricultural
management practices for animals.
C)        applies biological concepts and principles to agricultural
management practices for plants.
D)        applies characteristics, components, and properties of soil to
management practices of drainage, irrigation, soil testing, and conservation.
e)         The competent agricultural education teacher understands the
curriculum in the area of agricultural mechanization.
1)         Knowledge Indicators – The competent agricultural education
teacher:
A)        understands agricultural power.
B)        understands agricultural surveying.
C)        understands agricultural electricity.
D)        understands agricultural structures.
E)        understands agricultural machinery.
F)         understands agricultural construction processes.
G)        understands agricultural technology.
2)         Performance Indicators – The competent agricultural education
teacher:
A)        applies concepts of agricultural power to the repair of engines
and machinery.
B)        uses surveying equipment in agricultural applications
tructures.
E)        understands agricultural machinery.
F)         understands agricultural construction processes.
G)        understands agricultural technology.
2)         Performance Indicators – The competent agricultural education
teacher:
A)        applies concepts of agricultural power to the repair of engines
and machinery.
B)        uses surveying equipment in agricultural applications.
C)        applies knowledge of electricity to installation and repair of
electrical systems.
D)        applies knowledge of structures to agricultural applications.
E)        applies skills in repairing and maintaining agricultural
machinery.
F)         applies skills in carpentry, masonry, and plumbing to
agricultural construction.
G)        uses technology in agricultural applications.
f)         The competent agricultural education teacher understands the
curriculum in the area of agricultural business.
1)         Knowledge Indicators – The competent agricultural education
teacher:
A)        understands agricultural marketing and economics.
B)        understands the concepts of agricultural sales and service.
C)        understands principles of entrepreneurship.
D)        understands economic policies and how they influence
agriculture.
2)         Performance Indicators – The competent agricultural education
teacher:
A)        applies principles of marketing and economics in agricultural
business operations.
B)        applies strategies for effective sales and service in
agricultural applications.
C)        applies entrepreneurship principles to the development and
operation of an agricultural business.
D)        analyzes economic policies and their influence on agriculture.
g)         The competent agricultural education teacher understands the
curriculum in the area of horticulture.
1)         Knowledge Indicators – The competent agricultural education
teacher:
A)        understands plant systems.
B)        understands plant propagation.
C)        understands integrated pest management
iness.
D)        analyzes economic policies and their influence on agriculture.
g)         The competent agricultural education teacher understands the
curriculum in the area of horticulture.
1)         Knowledge Indicators – The competent agricultural education
teacher:
A)        understands plant systems.
B)        understands plant propagation.
C)        understands integrated pest management.
D)        understands greenhouse management.
E)        understands fruit and vegetable crops.
F)         understands floral design.
G)        understands landscaping.
H)        understands turf management.
2)         Performance Indicators – The competent agricultural education
teacher:
A)        applies principles of plant growth and reproduction to the
cultivation of horticultural plants.
B)        uses approved procedures for propagating horticultural plants.
C)        uses integrated pest management practices to control
horticultural plant pests.
D)        operates a greenhouse facility for the production of plants.
E)        uses proven methods for the production of fruit and vegetable
crops.
F)         applies principles of floral design to create floral
arrangements.
G)        applies principles of landscaping to design, plant, and
maintain landscaped areas.
H)        applies principles of turf management to the production and
maintenance of turf.
h)         The competent agricultural education teacher understands the
curriculum in the area of agricultural resources.
1)         Knowledge Indicators – The competent agricultural education
teacher:
A)        understands the relationship among agriculture, the
environment, and society.
B)        understands the role of forest and agricultural management in
protecting habitats and species.
C)        understands land-use issues in agriculture.
2)         Performance Indicators – The competent agricultural education
teacher:
A)        applies principles of ecology in agricultural resource
management
understands the relationship among agriculture, the
environment, and society.
B)        understands the role of forest and agricultural management in
protecting habitats and species.
C)        understands land-use issues in agriculture.
2)         Performance Indicators – The competent agricultural education
teacher:
A)        applies principles of ecology in agricultural resource
management.
B)        applies principles of conservation in protecting habitats and
species.
C)        applies knowledge of land use to agricultural applications.
i)          The competent agricultural education teacher is able to develop
and implement a comprehensive agriculture program reflective of student,
community, and industry interaction.
1)         Knowledge Indicators – The competent agricultural education
teacher:
A)        understands the development and effective use of advisory
councils in the agriculture program.
B)        understands agricultural literacy programs from kindergarten
through the adult level.
C)        understands the development of partnerships with constituent
support groups.
D)        understands students' and industry's needs in career and
technical education.
2)         Performance Indicators – The competent agricultural education
teacher:
A)        establishes an active advisory council for the agriculture
program.
B)        conducts agricultural literacy activities for K-adult
populations.
C)        develops partnerships with constituent support groups.
D)        develops programs to meet students' and industry's needs in
career and technical education.
j)          The competent agricultural education teacher understands the
principles of leadership and applies that knowledge through the activities of
the Future Farmers of America (FFA), an agricultural education students'
organization.
1)         Knowledge Indicators – The competent agricultural education
teacher:
A)        understands the development of student development activities
in the FFA
The competent agricultural education teacher understands the
principles of leadership and applies that knowledge through the activities of
the Future Farmers of America (FFA), an agricultural education students'
organization.
1)         Knowledge Indicators – The competent agricultural education
teacher:
A)        understands the development of student development activities
in the FFA.
B)        understands the development of chapter development activities
in the FFA.
C)        understands the development of community development activities
in the FFA.
2)         Performance Indicators – The competent agricultural education
teacher:
A)        advises students in planning and conducting student development
activities.
B)        advises students in planning and conducting chapter development
activities.
C)        advises students in planning and conducting community
development activities.
k)         The competent agricultural education teacher understands and
provides individual career experiences through experiential learning in Supervised
Agricultural Experiences (SAEs).
1)         Knowledge Indicators – The competent agricultural education
teacher:
A)        understands that SAEs are to be planned and comprehensive.
B)        understands that SAEs are linked to the curriculum and a
career.
C)        understands that SAEs are individualized and student-managed.
D)        understands that SAEs are documented by using recordkeeping and
analysis.
E)        understands that SAEs allow students to receive recognition.
2)         Performance Indicators – The competent agricultural education
teacher:
A)        assists students in developing planned and comprehensive SAEs.
B)        assists students in selecting an SAE linked to the curriculum
and a career.
C)        assists students in managing their individualized SAEs.
D)        supervises SAEs and assists with recordkeeping and analysis.
E)        provides opportunities for recognition of student SAEs
etent agricultural education
teacher:
A)        assists students in developing planned and comprehensive SAEs.
B)        assists students in selecting an SAE linked to the curriculum
and a career.
C)        assists students in managing their individualized SAEs.
D)        supervises SAEs and assists with recordkeeping and analysis.
E)        provides opportunities for recognition of student SAEs.
l)          The competent agricultural education teacher understands
appropriate instructional strategies for integrating the unique components of a
comprehensive agricultural education program, including FFA, SAE, classroom and
laboratory instruction, and adult education.
1)         Knowledge Indicators – The competent agricultural education
teacher:
A)        understands the methods and strategies used in teaching the
unique instructional areas of agriculture education, including FFA and SAE.
B)        understands the references and resources used in teaching
agricultural education.
C)        understands the development of effective adult education
programs.
2)         Performance Indicators – The competent agricultural education
teacher:
A)        uses a variety of methods and strategies in teaching
agriculture.
B)        develops a library of references and resources for teaching
agriculture.
C)        develops an effective adult education program.

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