Family and Consumer Sciences
Human Services Cluster: Teen Connections
Instructor: E. McLean(New Brockton High School)
TEEN CONNECTIONS
COURSE SYLLABUS
Program Goal: The goal of the New Brockton High School Family and Consumer Sciences Department is to provide students with the skills they need in academic/technical education and leadership/career development to become successful in the world of work.
I. Course Description
Teen Connections is designed for students in Grade 8. Teen Connections may be taught as a 70- or 140-hour course. Topics focus on teen connections in the home, school, and community. Course content provides opportunities for students to explore personal development; the impact of values, goals, decision making, and time management; conflict resolution, identifying family structures; member’s roles and responsibilities; changes and challenges faced throughout the family life cycle; health, wellness, and a healthy appearance; money management and teen consumer decisions; teen clothing decisions; stages of child development; first aid techniques; organizing and maintaining teen living space; home safety; technology; and skills needed for workplace success. Career and technical student organizations are integral, co-curricular components of each career and technical education course. These organizations serve as a means to enhance classroom instruction while helping students develop leadership abilities, expand workplace-readiness skills, and broaden opportunities for personal and professional growth.
Prerequisites: N/A
II. Culminating Products:
Students are expected to meet all course goals and apply knowledge through real-life situations. A variety of teaching techniques such as small and large group discussions, lecture, labs, and independent work will be used to integrate skills such as decision making, problem solving, and critical thinking. Laboratory experiences are essential in developing real-life skills in managing the work of the family. The work of the family involves skills of nurturing the growth of individuals and families and managing family life in the areas of family living and parenting, nutrition and foods, housing, clothing, resource management. Students will engage in activities, experiences, and assessments that deal with applying synthesizing, and evaluating knowledge and skills. Essay tests, performance assessments, laboratory work, projects reports, products produced, project presentations, and paper-pencil tests will be used to assess the student’s progress in meeting course goals.
III. Course Goals
Students will:
1. Identify factors that impact personal connections.
2. Demonstrate practices that provide food and wellness connections.
3. Describe the importance of consumer connections.
4. Demonstrate appropriate skills that relate to clothing connections.
5. Explain the impact of child care connections.
6. Analyze strategies used for housing connections.
7. Determine the impact of technology on individuals and families.
8. Explore careers and career skills that are needed for the workplace.
IV. Course Outline: The course outline includes the following major content:
I. Personal Connections:
A. Factors that affect self-esteem and self-concept (1)
1. Physical
2. Social
3. Emotional
4. Intellectual
B. Interpersonal skills needed by teenagers (2)
1. Respect self and others
2. Resolve conflict
3. Respond to peer pressure
4. Communicate with others
C. Impact of values, goals, and decision making on teenagers (3)
D. Socially acceptable behavior of teenagers (4)
1. Practice good manners
2. Etiquette
3. Good grooming habits
E. Various family structures (5)
1. Nuclear
2. Blended
3. Extended
4. Single-parent
F. Individual roles and responsibilities in the home contribute to family well-being (5)
G. Changes and challenges faced throughout the family life cycle (5)
H. Time management skills (6)
II. Food and Wellness Connections:
A. Relationship among nutrition, exercise, and rest in maintaining wellness (7)
1. Health hazards susceptible to teens
2. Safe methods for teens to maintain an optimum weight
B. Select, store, prepare, and serve nutritious foods (8)
1. Safely and correctly use kitchen equipment
2. Use safety and sanitation procedures in food preparation
3. Guidelines for table setting
III. Consumer Connections:
A. Money management for teens (9)
1. Budget
2. Expenditures
3. Savings
B. Factors influencing individual and teen consumer decisions (10)
1. Needs and wants
2. Budget limitations
3. Quality of products
4. Store policies affecting teen consumers
5. Resolve teen consumer problems
C. Comparison shopping among teens (11)
IV. Clothing Connections:
A. Clothing selection of teenagers (12)
1. Style
2. Fads
3. Fashion trends
B. Sewing construction skills (13)
1. Safely use equipment
2. Correctly use equipment
C. Maintain and care for clothing (14)
V. Child Care Connections:
A. Stages of child development (15)
1. Age-appropriate child care skills
2. Responsibilities for a caregiver
3. Guiding the behavior of children
B. Handling emergencies for children, first aid (16)
VI. Housing Connections:
A. Maintain a clean home (17)
1. Sanitation
2. Safety
3. Security practices
4. First aid, fire, and weather home-safety plan
B. Selecting and arranging furniture and accessories in a teenager’s living space (18)
VII. Technology and Career Connections:
A. Technology impact on individuals and families (19)
B. Career skills needed for the workplace (20)
1. Time management
2. Teamwork
3. Interview skills
4. Completion of job applications
Essential Questions:
1. What factors impact personal connections?
2. What practices provide food and wellness connections?
3. How are consumer connections important?
4. Which skills relate to clothing connections?
5. What impacts child care connections?
6. Which types of strategies are used for housing connections?
7. How has technology impacted individuals and families?
8. Which career skills are needed for the workplace?
Course Assessment Procedures: Students will receive their grades based on daily participation, laboratory experiences, projects, notebooks, homework and test. Each category will be assigned points to determine the student’s final average. Course work will be averaged by adding the total number of points and dividing by the number of assignments:
Formative Assessment 10-50 points
· (Daily Participation, Quizzes, Homework, In Class Work)
Summative Assessment 100 points
· (Exams, Essays, Projects)
· 9 Weeks exam is worth 15% of grade.
· Grading Scale
90-100 A
80-89 B
70-79 C
60-69 D
0-59 F
CAREER AND TECHNICAL STUDENT ORGANIZATION:
Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA)
AVAILABLE INDUSTRY CREDENTIALS:
ServSafe
Text, Fees and Required Supplies:
1. Textbooks
2. Class Fees- $10.00 (Semester) $5.00 (Nine Weeks)-This is used to help buy other supplies, groceries, etc.
3. FCCLA DUES- $15.00.
4. Supplies: binder/notebook, paper, pencil, paper towels, dish soap, hand soap
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