Synchronize Your Gears

What gear are you in?

The Big Picture

• Where we’ve been.• Where we are.• Where we are going.

Family & Consumer Sciences – Be proud of what’s been accomplished!Then Now

Life Expectancy 47.3 years 77.8 years

Education Beyond High School 1.9% 26.6%

Goals Improve Quality of Life Prepare

students for the work of the family and

careers.

FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCES EDUCATION

Individual and Family Community and Career

Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America

Through Family and Consumer Sciences Programs of Study students acquire skills for family life, post-secondary employment and education.

Learning Requirements Pathway Courses Or Work

Thinking PROCESS SKILLS

Management Leadership Communication

Family and Career Focus Courses

Child Development I & II Housing, Environments

and Design Food Science Career Development &

Entrepreneurship

Family Focus Courses

Discovering Family

and Consumer Sciences

Career and Family Leadership

Family and Individual Health

Family Living and Parenthood

Personal Finance Consumer Resource

Management Nutrition and

Wellness

Career Focus Courses

Child Care Assistant Fashion Design ProStart Culinary Arts

SHOW ME GOALS

SHOW ME STANDARDS

Gears in the System…

• Birth-12 Certification• Individual and Family• Community and Career• Process Skills• Family Focus Courses• Career Focus Courses• Dual Purpose Courses• Show Me Goals and Standards• FCCLA• Program of Study

Program of Study is NOT a Dirty Word!• We are ahead of other curriculum areas.• We are LEADERS and we want to stay that way.• Program credibility.• Focusing on a career path will provide more

opportunities for your students AND your Family and Consumer Sciences program.

What Does PoS Mean to You?• Missouri has chosen the Career Clusters

Framework to organize and implement its programs of study

Career Path

Career Cluster

Career Pathway

The Relationships of Career Clusters and Program of Study• Career Cluster – NATIONAL (Human Services)

• An organizing tool that groups occupations and careers based on common knowledge and skills.

• Career Path – STATE (Human Services)• Missouri’s model for career development.

• Career Pathway (Early Childhood Development & Services)• Listings of occupations that share advanced technical skills and/or

common roles within a career cluster.• Program of Study (To be developed at the local level.)

• A systematic framework for a new way of doing business in our high schools, colleges, and universities.

• Personal Plan of Study • To be developed at the local level for individual students.• A student’s scope and sequence of coursework and co-curricular

experiences.

What does this mean….

• A student’s personal plan of study should reflect a program of study, but it should also be individualized for that student’s career interests.

• It’s more than a job, it’s a career choice for students.• This provides our students with opportunities to focus on a

career path. • Establishing career path relevance can help to justify

your program.

How Does FCCLA Fit In?

• FCCLA incorporated into a personal plan of study can develop personal qualities such as leadership and teamwork.

• Leadership skills that students learn in your classroom through FCCLA activities can be assessed and used to further justifty your program.

Deadline – Deadline - Deadline• The deadline for the implementation of this

process….• Within the next 3 years

What does this mean for you?

Refresh, Energize, and Unite• You don’t have to make these changes on your

own…• Family and Consumer Sciences teachers will have

the opportunity to support and encourage each other in the design and implementation of curriculum and programs of study.

• All Family and Consumer Sciences programs across the state will be united. YOU ARE NOT ALONE!

• Small and Large Family & Consumer Science Programs• Rural, Urban, and Inner City Family & Consumer Science

Programs

Reinforcing What We’re Already Using• Process Skills

• Assess • Critical Thinking Skills• FCCLA• Rigor & Relevance

We Want To Challenge You• Get out of your comfortable

“teaching zone.”

Data Drives What is Taught• It is imperative that what you teach

leads to a career.• What does YOUR community need? • Find out…

• Advisory committee• Career data • Employability skills

Know Your Stuff

• 30 Second Elevator Speech• Be ready to talk with counselors.• Be ready to talk with administrators.• Be ready to talk with parents.• Be ready to talk with students.• Be ready……

Elevator Speech / 30 Second Speech• Components of Work & Family Life

• Relationship Skills• Human Development• Health & Wellness• Financial Competence• Leadership• Critical Thinking• Problem Solving

• Students can explore several career clusters and are employed in a variety of jobs.

• Human Services• Education & Training• Hospitality & Tourism• Arts• Manufacturing• Sales

• An integral part of the Family and Consumer Sciences curriculum is the student organization Family, Career & Community Leaders of America.

• Learning leadership skills through FCCLA.

Get Informed…..

• Attend the Program of Study Module Training Seminars that are offered during this conference and around the region.

• Program & Courses – A New Look & Curriculum Writing• Programs of Study Models • Leadership Skill Development• How to Develop a Program of Study• History & Rationale for Change• Creating Articulation Agreements

Program & Courses – A New Look & Curriculum Writing

• In this training module, you will learn….• Where to find market data (used to drive your program).• How to contact your technical prep person.• Availability of developed Programs of Study

• Sharing programs of study district to district, school to school• You don’t have to re-invent the wheel

• Aligning curriculum to Missouri Competencies and National Standards.

• Making sure that you include rigor and relevance in your curriculum offerings.

Leadership Skill Development

• In this training module you will learn about…• Core Leadership Skills Components • The student benefits of leadership skill

implementation (you’re already doing this).• The community/school benefits of leadership skills

implementation (you’re already doing this).• How to justify your program by using leadership skills

that you’re already teaching in your classroom!!

How to Develop a Program of Study

• In this training module you will learn…• The 10 step process to implementing the program of

study.• Start to finish, how to put a program of study in place.• How to recognize gaps in your current curriculum

offerings.

History & Rationale for Change

• In this training module you will learn about…• The reasons for the changes

• Federal, State, and Perkins legislation is driving these changes. • Societal changes drives curriculum. • Labor market data drives what is being taught and offered.

• Future will be family focused, career focused. • Increase rigor/relevance. • Improves FCS programs to prepare students for a viable careers

Creating Articulation Agreements

In this training module you will get information regarding the benefits and process of articulation:

• Recognize that this is a good thing for our students and our state.

• This will help you to get administrative support.• This will enable you to formulate collaborative groups to

approach universities and junior/community colleges together.

Programs of Study Models - THE FINAL LINK -• In this training module, you will learn….

• How to put together all of the training pieces you’ve learned at the different training module workshops:

• How the components of the program of study will work for students in the community where you teach.

• Making a seamless educational program offering your students more opportunities.

• Helping students link current coursework with possible career pathways.

So….now what? What do we do with all of this information?

• What do we do with all of this information?• Critical thinking, problem solving, and the process

skills are still just as important as ever. • They are the foundation of our curriculum. It’s easy to

say we are using these skills every day in our classrooms but are we REALLY?

• Are we challenging our students each and every day to be an innovative and authentic learner?

• It’s important that as leaders in the model for what education should be that each and every one of us remains constant in our teaching of these skills – remember we are models to others.

• We want to maintain our status as leaders of innovative thinking.

• Each person needs to stay diligent.• We are ALL on the same path.