Current trends and emphasis in home economics education are reported. (MS)

This guide is intended to assist home economics teachers in designing lessons and activities that will reinforce mathematics skills in consumer and homemaking education programs. Included in the guide are a total of 55 mini-lessons on the following areas of home economics: child development; family relationships; foods and nutrition; consumer…

This guide is intended to assist home economics teachers in designing lessons and activities that will reinforce reading skills in consumer and homemaking education programs. Included in the guide are a total of 60 mini-lessons on the following areas of home economics: child development; family relationships; foods and nutrition; consumer…

This guide is intended to assist home economics teachers in designing lessons and activities that will reinforce writing skills in consumer and homemaking education programs. Included in the guide are a total of 59 mini-lessons on the following areas of home economics: child development; family relationships; foods and nutrition; consumer…

This scope and sequence guide for vocational home economics programs in Iowa discusses the most important dimensions of the program and describes the general purposes of programs along with factors that affect them, both in general and for Iowa specifically. The introductory chapter of the guide sets the context and the mission and also includes a…

This guide is designed to provide an overview of the total curriculum for Level I Home Economics. Three scope and sequence options and block plans for periods that are 9, 18, and 36 weeks in length are suggested. The six subject areas (and concept areas) are child development (child as individual, babysitting, job skills), clothing and textiles…

The study described in this report was designed to provide a description of vocational home economics programs in public high schools across the United States, identifying what home economics concepts are being taught to which learners and in what courses such teaching occurred in 1978-1979. On the questionnaire used in the study, 20 topics…

This package consists of occupational competency profiles for evaluation of students in vocational home economics courses in Texas. The package begins with a rating sheet of essential elements for all vocational programs, with space for instructors to rate students on a four-point scale, followed by a competency profile sheet. Competency…

This teacher handbook provides recommended goals and objectives and suggested measures for the competency-based secondary home economics curriculum in North Carolina. The guide is organized in two sections. The first section consists of an overview of the North Carolina Standard Course of Study and the competency-based curriculum. Information on…

A study examined the perceptions of present and former high school students enrolled in vocational homemaking education courses in Texas concerning the usefulness of consumer education concepts developed in the homemaking education program. Using a project-developed survey instrument, researchers collected data from 490 current and 416 randomly…

Eight home economics curriculum areas are presented in this guide, with each area consisting of one or more instructional units as follows: (1) Orientation (orientation to Future Homemakers of America--FHA, FHA in action, parliamentary procedure); (2) Career Exploration (home economics related occupations, locating a job, job success); (3) Child…

Designed to provide consumer and homemaking education teachers with new and creative ideas for meeting the needs of male students, this guide consists of suggestions for developing a classroom environment and teaching strategies to involve males in home economics classes. The first part of the guide covers the following topics: classroom…

This publication was designed to assist home economics teachers, school administrators, guidance counselors, and community and parent advisory groups in Montana to plan vocational home economics programs. Information included in the publication is intended to define concepts and to provide suggested learner outcomes appropriate for home economics…

This teacher's guide to Home Economics I is designed to provide a basic core of instruction in vocational home economics. It provides teachers with minimum program standards, enables unified program standards, and provides a means of accountability for students and teachers in Oklahoma. The concepts in the guide, organized in eight sections, have…

Increasingly, educational evaluators are using studies of individual students in a program, reporting their academic and community background, dimensions of the program in which they were enrolled, and the benefits to the students after completing or leaving the program as a measure of the success of the programs. The case studies in this…