Wednesday Words of the Day!

Welcome to our new series: Wednesday Words of the Day! (Just about) each Wednesday, I will post a list of words that students picked out throughout the week, including words that they had no idea about or words that they thought were important and would appear in the future. The definitions of these words are the definitions that students found in Robert's Rules of Order, Newly Revised (RONR), 11th Edition, or definitions that they derived from both RONR and their knowledge of the topic

Deliberative Assembly - a group of persons following a parliamentary authority to conduct business
RONR (11th ed.), p. 1-2

Board - smaller than other assemblies determined by responsibilities and powers

Convention - a type of deliberative assembly; an assembly of delegates (e.g. Farm Bureau annual meeting) RONR (11th ed.), p.7

Local Assembly of an Organized Society - a local group that is part of a bigger group that has bylaws, membership, and follows the rules of larger group (e.g. FFA, 4-H)

Mass Meeting - a meeting open to everyone (e.g. town hall meeting) RONR (11th ed.), p. 5-11, 20-38

Legislative Body - constitutionally established public law making body of representatives chosen for a fixed term of office (e.g. voting) RONR (11th ed.), p.8

Parliamentary Authority - a book of rules on conducting business in deliberative assemblies (e.g. Robert's Rules of Order, AIPSC, Mason's, Canon, Demeter

Tune back in next Wednesday to expand your parliamentary vocabulary! If you are viewing this blog from an outside perspective, please comment below some vocabulary words that you think would challenge students!

Diving Into Parli Pro

So let's catch up on what happened the first week of class...

WE CREATED OUR OWN SYLLABUS!!!

Yes this means content, objectives, grades... the whole nine yards. Kind of sweet, right? We took 2, 1 1/2 hour sessions to develop what we wanted to learn in the class and design our roadmap to the semester. As aspiring agricultural educators we learned some of the road blocks that one runs into when developing a course outline such as "there are not enough weeks to learn what we want too!"

Today was the start of week 2 and according to our syllabus we were to start laying the foundational blocks of parliamentary procedure (parli pro)! So today we learned:

1. The Purpose of Parli Pro

2. The Four Main Principles

3. Characteristics of a Deliberative Assembly

4. Types of Assembly

5. Two Kinds of Rules

The Local Assembly of Organized Society is one of the 5 Types of Assemblies and would include organizations such as 4-H and FFA. Below is a video of a 4-H group demonstrating parli pro terminology that I, of little parli pro knowledge, found helpful to watch as extra foundational layers to my base knowledge of parli pro.