COURSE GOALS AND TECHNICAL STANDARDS

LINKS TO ACADEMIC CONTENT STANDARDS

Students will:

1.1    Analyze strategies to manage multiple individual, family, career and community roles and responsibilities.

1.1.5        Determine goals for life-long learning and leisure opportunities for all family members.

1.1.6        Determine skills and knowledge needed to develop a life plan for achieving individual, family and career goals.

1.2     Demonstrate transferable and employability skills in community and workplace settings.

1.2.1        Examine potential career choices to determine the knowledge, skills and attitudes associated with each.

1.2.2        Identify job seeking and job keeping skills.

1.2.3        Demonstrate communication skills in community and workplace settings.

1.2.4        Demonstrate team skills in community and workplace settings.

1.2.7        Identify factors necessary for a safe and healthy classroom and work environment.

3.1    Explain the significance of the family as the basic unit of society.

3.1.2        Describe the role of family in teaching culture to family members across the life span.

3.3 Analyze strong, healthy families.

3.3.1        Identify the characteristics of strong, healthy families.

3.3.2        Identify how the use of problem solving empowers family members to meet goals.

4.1    Analyze functions and expectations of various types of relationships.

4.1.1        Identify characteristics of respectful, healthy relationships.

4.3          Demonstrate communication skills that contribute to positive relationships.

4.3.2        Demonstrate verbal and non-verbal behaviors and attitudes that contribute to effective communication.

4.3.3        Demonstrate effective listening and feedback techniques.

4.4      Evaluate strategies to prevent and                                manage conflict.

4.4.2        Analyze causes of conflict.

4.4.3        Demonstrate effective listening and feedback techniques.

4.5      Demonstrate teamwork and leadership skills in the family, workplace, and community.

4.5.2        Demonstrate techniques that develop team and community spirit.

6.2    Evaluate the nutritional needs of individual and families in relation to health and wellness across the life span.

6.2.1        Describe the effect of nutrients on health, appearance, job performance, and personal/family life.

6.3          Demonstrate planning, selecting, storing, preparing and serving of foods to meet nutritional needs of individual and families across the life span.

6.3.1        Identify various dietary guidelines in planning to meet nutrition and wellness needs.

6.3.2        Select, store, prepare, and serve nutritious and aesthetically pleasing foods that meet health and wellness needs based on available resources.

6.4          Evaluate factors affecting food safety, from production through consumption.

6.4.1        Identify conditions and practices that promote safe food handling.

7.1    Demonstrate management principles to meet individual and family needs and wants in relation to food, clothing, shelter, health care, recreation, and transportation.

7.1.2        Apply management and planning skills and processes to organize tasks and responsibilities to meet goals.

Mathematics 6-8

Measurement

Goal 3.2 (b)

Language Arts 6-8

Reading

Goal 1.4 (a, c)

Writing

Goal 2.4 (a, b, c)

Science 8

Science, Technology, Environment and Society

Goal 5.7

Social Studies 8

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TRANSFERABLE WORK SKILLS

BASIC SKILLS: Writing, Mathematics, Speaking, Listening, and Reading.

THINKING SKILLS: Think Creatively, Solve Problems, Know How to Learn, Make Decisions, Reasoning.

PERSONAL QUALITIES: Individual Responsibility, Self-Management, Self-esteem, Integrity, and Sociability.

INTERPERSONAL: Working on Teams, Teaching Others, Negotiate, Exercise Leadership.

INFORMATION:  Use computers.

SYSTEMS:  Understands Social Systems.

TECHNOLOGY:  Select Technology, Apply Technology.

RESOURCES:  Allocate Time, Money, Materials, Space, and Human Resources.