FCS 82011 – 2012

Mrs. Elliott

EXPECTATIONS

PURPOSE:

Family and Consumers Sciences 8 is a course designed to deliver the NYS mandated Home and Career Skills curriculum. The purpose of the course is to prepare students to meet their present and future responsibilities as family and community members, consumers, home managers, and wage earners. The goal is to educate students to think constructively, make sound decisions, solve problems, and manage resources.

LEARNING STANDARDS:

Health, Physical Education, and Family and Consumer Sciences

  1. Personal Health and Fitness

Students will have the necessary knowledge and skills to establish and maintain physical fitness, participate in physical activity, and maintain personal health.

  1. A Safe and Healthy Environment

Students will acquire the knowledge and ability necessary to create and maintain a safe and healthy environment.

  1. Resource Management

Students will understand and be able to manage their personal and community resources.

Career Development and Occupational Studies

  1. Career Development

Students will be knowledgeable about the world of work, explore career options, and relate personal skills, aptitudes, and abilities to future career decisions.

  1. Integrated Learning

Students will demonstrate how academic knowledge and skills are applied to the workplace and other settings.

3a.Universal Foundation Skills

Students will demonstrate mastery of the foundation skills and competencies essential for success in the workplace.

Additionally, FCS 8 supports the NYS Learning Standards taught in the academic disciplines of Math, Science, and Technology, English Language Arts, Social Studies, Languages Other Than English, and the Arts by providing real-world opportunities in which to apply the key ideas and skills taught in those courses.

GRADING POLICY:

Your course grade will be calculated on a point system. Each assignment will be worth a stated number of points. At the end of the grading period, the total number of points that could have been earned will be divided by the total of your accumulated points to determine your quarter grade. For example, if there were a possible 800 points for the marking period and a student earned 750 points, the students grade would be 94 (750/800= 94).

STUDENT RESPONSIBILITIES:

  1. You are expected to come to class prepared to work each day. This means you must come with a pen and/or pencil, your binder, and any other materials, as requested by the teacher, needed to complete the expected tasks that day.
  2. Organization is an essential life skill. To develop and demonstrate organizational skills, you will be required to maintain an organized binder with two dividers. The binder will be graded on the completeness and organization of the course materials and your work.
  3. Attendance in school is related to student success. Absence from class will impact your class participation grade.
  4. In case of a class absence, you are responsible for getting and making up assignments and tests promptly.
  5. Effective time management is another very important life skill. To reinforce this concept, homework must be complete and on time to be eligible for full credit. Assignments handed in by the next class day will receive half credit. Any assignment handed in after that time will not receive credit, but should still be completed so as not to jeopardize the notebook grade and to develop skills needed for final evaluations.
  6. You are expected to be in your seat and prepared to work when the period begins. If you are late or unprepared, you will lose points from your daily class participation grade.
  7. Students will be assigned lunch detention after the third unexcused late to class.
  8. It is expected that you will be respectful and courteous to others, even when their position may differ from yours.
  9. Behavior that interferes with the teaching process will result in immediate action in order to minimize the amount of time lost to the learning process. 1st offense - warning, 2nd offense – seat changed, 3rd offense – removal from classroom & lunch detention, additional offenses – referral to the assistant principal.

FCS 8 EXPECTATIONS

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