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Download full textDes Moines Public Schools, IA. Teaching and Learning Div. – 1992
Home economics programs are offered to students in grades 6-12 in the Des Moines INdependent Community School District (Iowa). Programs at the middle school level are exploratory, leading to occupational training in family and consumer science, child care, food service, and textile and fashion arts at the high school level. Health education…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Child Care Occupations, Competency Based Education, Consumer Science
Delaware State Dept. of Public Instruction, Dover. Div. of Vocational Education. – 1990
These State Curriculum Standards for Vocational Home Economics Education combine vocational home economics content with the development of decision-making skills in solving real life problems. They offer students the opportunity to study the home and family, develop entry-level job skills, and learn higher order thinking skills. The curriculum…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Career Education, Child Development, Child Rearing
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1984
This volume consists of lists of proficiencies and performance indicators for use in designing and revising curricula dealing with essential living skills in consumer and homemaking education for the occupation of homemaking. Addressed in the individual sections of the guide are behavioral objectives and evaluation criteria dealing with the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Child Development, Child Rearing
Crabtree, Myrna P.; Maltby, Carolyn T. – 1982
This document, consisting of six modules, was designed to help home economics teachers integrate the teaching of reading, writing, and mathematics skills into homemaking and consumer economics courses. The modules were developed to help students meet the minimum standards for these skills in Florida secondary schools. Preceding the modules in the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Child Development, Clothing Instruction, Competence
Pittsburgh Univ., PA. School of Education. – 1978
The project was designed to acquaint home economics teachers with the textile and power sewing industry's history, job possibilities, and student (including disadvantaged and handicapped) needs and interests. Teachers were taught industrial machine operation, basic maintenance, and safety tips. Four objectives related to gainful clothing services…
Descriptors: Clothing Instruction, Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Opportunities, Equipment Maintenance
Keeton, Martha; And Others – 1983
This manual provides curriculum materials for implementing a career exploration class in home economics occupations within a Practical Arts Education program for middle/junior high school students. Introductory materials include the program master sequence, a list of home economics occupations, and an overview of the competency-based instructional…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Career Education, Career Exploration, Child Care Occupations
Smeaton, Barry; Hughes, Maria; Hall, Graeme – 2002
The United Kingdom's Learning and Skills Development Agency (LSDA), UK SKILLS, and the Further Education Skills Competition Council conducted a collaborative action research project to improve students' vocational learning and skills through enhanced learning experiences. From February 2001 to April 2002, three further education colleges worked to…
Descriptors: Action Research, Advisory Committees, Basic Skills, Case Studies
Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. Div. of Vocational, Adult, and Community Education. – 1994
This package consists of a teacher's guide and 12 learning modules that have been designed for middle school home economics exploration and orientation courses. Presented in the teacher's guide are suggested instructional strategies for using the learning modules in interdisciplinary settings. The following topics are covered in the learning…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Career Exploration, Child Care Occupations, Classroom Techniques
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Vocational Education. – 1985
This teacher handbook provides recommended goals and objectives and suggested measures for competency-based courses in the vocational program area of trade and industrial education. A background and overview section contains the philosophy and rationale, discusses thinking skills and programs for exceptional children, and provides notes that…
Descriptors: Aerospace Technology, Auto Body Repairers, Auto Mechanics, Aviation Technology
Simpson, Elizabeth J. – 1981
This report examines matters about which people will need to be knowledgeable in the 1980s to be intelligent consumers and effective homemakers. Its assumptions are based on an examination of work in the field of home economics and related areas of future issues relative to families, publications dealing with social trends and technological…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Child Development, Child Rearing, Clothing Instruction
Tieman, Rebecca; Burns, Stacey – 1997
These two documents deal with the relationship between Missouri's Show-Me Standards (the standards defining what all Missouri students should know upon graduation from high school) with the vocational competencies taught in secondary-level family and consumer science (FACS) education courses. The first document, which is a database documenting the…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Articulation (Education), Basic Skills, Child Care Occupations
Vail, Ann, Ed.; Fox, Wanda S., Ed.; Wild, Peggy, Ed. – 2000
This book contains 27 papers on the development of national standards for family and consumer sciences (FACS) education. The following papers are included: "Leadership for Change: Developing the National Standards" (Peggy Wild); "National Standards Model" (Wanda S. Fox); "Reasoning for Action" (Wanda S. Fox, Janet F.…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Planning, Clothing Instruction, Community Services
