Another Day of Parli Pro

Only November 16^th, 2019 Nell Barbour, Jenna Harnish and I had the opportunity to be a large part of the Lancaster County Leadership Conference held for first year members and officer teams. Nell, Jenna, and I created a lesson plan that dealt with the basics of parliamentary procedure that was necessary for any FFA meeting they held. We focused on creating a proper agenda, and ACEs in the hole!

There were about 20 people within our workshop, and we began our lesson with creating agendas. I have always found that kids are only ever going to be as excited as you are, so if you show them you want to be there they will get excited and want to be there too. Using part of my innovation project we put the members into groups of 2 using envelopes with numbers written on the outside. Once everyone was in their groups, they were all given a worksheet that says triple R sun and given an extra piece of papers to write ideas on. We gave the students about two minutes to work in partners and create an idea of what triple R sun meant on their scrap piece of paper. We had a flip chart with triple R sun on it as well so when we went over what each part of the acronym meant they could copy it onto their worksheet and use it for their next meeting. Once we finished this part of our workshop, we transitioned into what the different ACEs in the holes are.

Jenna and Nell took point on this part of the activity asking questions and pushing students to guess harder since I did the portion of agendas. For this portion we had students work together to guess what the phrases “question of privilege” and “parliamentary inquiry” meant. We had two separate flip charts, one for each ace in the hole. Inside of the envelopes given to the students were two brightly colored cards that looked like ace playing cards with a hole punched in the middle. We went over the definitions, if they are second able, debatable, amendable, and if a vote is needed. Each student got to write down the definition as well as the chart for each and given the wallet size cards to take home and use at their own meeting for a discussion. As a wrap up Jenna, Nell and I went over a quick mock meeting for each of the aces in the hole and asked the group if they had any questions toward the end. This was a great experience and I absolutely loved facilitating this workshop to this amazing group of kids who were actively engaged the whole time!