What Certified FCS Teachers Should KnowBe Able to Do Feel About FCS Content Areas

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What Certified FCS Teachers Should Know/Be Able
to Do/ Feel About FCS Content Areas

• From the perspective of stake holders

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Who are the Stake Holders?

• Extension System (POW, Land Grant, Specialists)
• County Commissioner
• Local School Boards
• Department Heads of Schools
• Curriculum Coordinators of Schools
• Teachers (influence grad. Requirements)
• Students
• Parents
• General Public

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Who are the Stake Holders?

• Guidance Counselors
• Principals and Superintendents
• Industry
• Employers
• Universities (MSU)
• Faculty members
• Family and Consumer Sciences Profession
• Congress (Federal)
• Legislation (State)
• Professional Organizations (AAFCS, ACTE, NEAFCS)
• Content Professional Organizations (NCFR, ACCI,
  AFCPE, NAEYC)

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Who are the Stake Holders?

• Taxpayer
• Advisory Boards

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Top Stake Holders

• Students / User Groups in Extension
• Local School Boards / County Commissioners /
  Local Control / Advisory Board
• FCS Professionals
• Funding Initiatives State/Federal
  Administration (Principal, Superintendent,
  Curriculum Director)
• Parents
• University and Board of Regents

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Demands of Group Students /User Groups

• Fun Active Hands-On
• Meat disciplinary content
• Relevance
• Fit developmentally with the group
• Subversive geniuses Pedagogically appropriate

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Demands of Group Local

• Enrollment
• Presentation They need to look good
• Fiscal accountability
• Certain FTE requirements
• Big picture balancing many parts
• Easy
• Benefit for the Cost
• Need to see the relevance
• Instant success

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Demands of Group FCS Professionals

• Individuals, Family, Community
• Career Technical
• Life Skills (conflict management)
• Professional coherence
• Diversity across
• Demands of FCS professionals to teach the
  important FCS content things.

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Demands of Group Funding and Initiatives

• Carl Perkins
• No Child Left Behind
• Programs of Work
• Teacher Credentialing
• National Standards Accreditation
• National Exams CFCS, PRAXIS II

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Demands of Group Parents

• Do everything they didnt do Co-parent kids
• Successful children in life
• Character Education
• Accommodate every child (IEP, 504)
• Make child competitive in work place
• Make children well-rounded (life skills)
• Grades no average children in Lake Wobigan
• Easy A
• Daily reports on how their child is doing
• Make the child and parents HAPPY

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Demands of Group Board of Regents

• 128 credits
• Increasing tuition
• Decreasing resources at departmental level
• Political body
• Uninformed at the grass roots level
• Having graduates who earn a lot money
• Who are they?
• Approve or deny curriculum
• Approve or deny the kind of university system we
  have

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Foods and Nutrition

• Healthful eating /wellness
• Basic concepts of nutrition
• Dietary guidelines
• Food pyramid
• Special dietary needs
• Lifecycle nutrition
• Making healthy choices
• Sports performance
• Nutrition
• Eating disorders

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Foods and Nutrition

• Meal Management
• Food resource management
• Shopping
• Planning
• Serving
• Meals away from home
• Etiquette
• Food presentation and service
• Actually serving meals to public groups

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Foods and Nutrition

• Meal Preparation
• Culinary skills
• Preparation and techniques
• Equipment and technology
• Food Safety and Sanitation
• Careers
• Choices
• Preparation
• License /Certification Requirements
• Job skills
• Work ethics
• Nutrition, Health and Global Concerns
• Industry certification SERVESAFE
  Sanitarian-certified, Certified Wait Staff???
  CFCS, AFC?

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Apparel Textiles

• Careers
• Buying and selecting ready to wear, home
  furnishings, soft goods
• Fabric and textile knowledge (identification,
  use, care)
• History of apparel and fashion
• Basic construction skills, repair, alterations
• Equipment knowledge sewing machines, serger,
  embroidery machines, commercial sewing
• Elements of design
• Retail businesses involving textiles and apparel
• Appropriate presentation (dress for the job)
• Display windows
• Quilting, crocheting, knitting, upholstery,
  weaving, embroidery

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Consumer Decisions

• Process of decision making
• Home own versus rent
• Cars (new or used)
• Comparison shopping (quality / quantity /cost)
• Conspicuous consumption
• Credit versus Cash
• Identity theft/fraud
• Consumer resources for problem resolution

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Personal and Family Finance

• Basic Budgeting
• Check book
• Debit / credit cards
• Loans /mortgages
• Savings / investments /retirement
• Insurance (car, home, health, life)
• Needs versus Wants goal setting based on values,
  needs, wants, constraints
• Internet Shopping
• Taxes
• Charitable Donations

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Child/Human Development

• Pregnancy (teen, too)
• Stages of Development (emotional, social,
  physical, intellectual, moral)
• Life cycle life span
• Parenting child care (choosing, providing)
• Family activities hands-on activities
• Safety needs for children and families abuse
• Discipline vs. punishment
• Theorists and theories of development
• Nutrition health health needs such as
  immunizations, childhood illnesses
• Special needs
• Dependent care through the life cycle
• Careers

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Families/Parenting/Relationships

• Conception Adolescence
• Parenting
• Managing work and family
• Family, Stress and Crisis
• Relationships family systems family structures
• Theories and skills for helping relationships
• Family life education
• Family law and public policy
• Gender, social class and diversity
• Human nutrition
• Human Development adulthood aging
• Survey of family finance
• Drugs and Society
• Conflict management conflict resolution
• Society influences media problems
• Marriage, divorce, separation, death, transitions
  of families
• Defining termswhat is a family???

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Sex Education

• Human sexuality
• Gender and sexuality
• Social / media influences
• Anatomy
• Methods (instructional methods)
• Contraception, abstinence, STI,
• Relationships and sexual aspects

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Entrepreneurship

• Budgeting (finance)
• Planning and arranging
• Time management
• Interpersonal skills
• Careers
• Decision Making
• Small Business Set-up business plans
• Job Seeking Skills
• Resumes
• Marketing public relations
• Sales skills
• Economics of markets, communities, global
  markets,
• Responding to demand and supply
• Purpose of entrepreneurial enterprises is to make
  a profit

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Hospitality/Tourism

• Hostess ing
• Presentation
• Travel
• Careers
• Local expertise
• Customer service conflict resolution
  professional boundaries
• Employee management
• Soft skills
• Course should be interactive to motivate students
• Job seeking skills
• Resumes
• Safe handling of food
• Community coordination
• Learning about cultural diversity
• Taking the initiative to make the whole
  enterprise successful
• Having a small, family-owned business
  (co-mingling funds, relationships)
• Technology
• Ethics

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Housing and Human Environments

• Mikes housing course
• Household equipment
• Design elements and principles (aesthetics,
  color, line, form, etc.)
• Inexpensive interior design projects to improve
  the human environment
• Know your resources (t.v., businesses,
  consultants, internet)
• Home repairs
• Furniture and furniture arrangement