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2. 1850sLate 1850s  Prepare women for their profession as wives and mothers.  Domestic tasks are women’s work & women needed specific formal training to run their homes.

3. Early 1900s1945  Improve lives of families & communities.  College programs provided links to U.S. Dept. of Agriculture.

4.  Social benefits centered on wise prepared mothers, responsible family member and citizens; healthy and moral household and productive and confident homemakers.

5. Today’s WorldMultiple tasks  Prepare students for family life, work life and careers.  Use knowledge to improve quality of life.

6. Late 1900sWomen in the workforce  Women enter wage earning careers and men’s work extended to homemaking and parenting roles.

7. Future  Develop higher order thinking skills and interpersonal communication skills needed in family, careers and communities and academics and working preparations.  Includes service learning and other extended learning opportunities integrated with academics beyond the classroom.

8. VOCATIONAL EDUCATIONCAREER EDUCATION  For Some Students High  For a Few Jobs  6 to 7 “Program Areas”  In Lieu of Academics School and College  High School Focused  For All Students  For All Careers  16 Clusters – 81 Pathways  Aligns and Supports Academics  Partnerships

9. Key IndicatorsIn 1900 In 2004 Life Expectancy National – 47.3 years old (www.cdc.gov) National - 77.8 years old – 76.2 years old (www.cdc.gov) High School Completion *6% National – 85% (www.nea.org)www.nea.org Missouri – 85.5% (www.dese.mo.gov)www.dese.mo.gov Mothers in Workforce *6% of married women National - 63% of women with children <6 yrs 77% of women with children 6-17 (www.dol.gov)www.dol.gov Infant Deaths 100 per 1000 (www.cdc.gov) National - 6.79 per 1000 Missouri – 7.6 per 1000 (www.cdc.gov)www.cdc.gov Education Beyond High School *1.9% college degree National – 26.6% Missouri – 24% (www.schoolmatters.org)www.schoolmatters.org What Has Changed? What courses in public education have facilitated this change? F OCUS F OR T HE F UTURE Therefore we need to focus on… Family & Individual Health Foods & Nutrition Child Development Physical Education  Human Development  Health  Physical Fitness  Nutrition Core Courses Career & Tech Ed Courses Fine Arts Courses  Guiding students towards a personal plan of study  Leadership Skills  Appropriate extra curricular activities Career & Tech Ed Courses  Balancing Work & Family  Personal Finance  Personal Management (time, household, family, etc...)  Interpersonal Relationships Child Development Human Development Foods & Nutrition  Human Development  Prenatal Care  Health  Interpersonal Relationships Core Courses Career & Tech Ed Courses Fine Arts Courses  Guiding students towards a personal plan of study  Leadership Skills  Appropriate extra curricular activities

10.  Societal changes drive curriculum.  Labor Market Data shows career demands.

11.  Retiring workforce and serious depletion of skill/talent pool.  Lack of appropriate/adequate skill sets for people entering workforce.  How do we address the gap?

12.  Tech Prep ◦ Articulation agreements  School to work  Embedded Credit  Career Clusters  Career Paths  Programs of Study

13.  The foundation of a quality curriculum is the combination of rigorous academics and meaningful, career-based learning for all students. The curriculum must be relevant to the lives of students and prepare them for current and future career opportunities. ◦ Goal-Install rigor, relevance, and relationships in the entire secondary curricula by incorporating career connections for greater participation in engaging learning strategies.

14.  RIGOR ◦ Academic core standards establish rigor. ◦ Work-based Learning  RELEVANCE ◦ Students apply knowledge, concepts, and skills to solve real real problems. ◦ Technical standards are derived from the workplace. ◦ Teaching to the higher order thinking skills establishes relevance. ◦ Leadership skills.  RELATIONSHIPS ◦ Secondary to Postsecondary ◦ Educational entity to the workplace. ◦ Real-world instruction establishes relationship between students and teachers.

15.  The Career Clusters framework was designed to respond to the growing demands on employers, employees and educational institutions in today’s globally competitive environment.  These programs of study requires alignment and coordination among secondary education, two-year and four-year postsecondary institutions, and the local business community.

16.  Goals ◦ Prepare students for careers related to Family and Consumer Sciences. ◦ Balance Family and Careers with a focus on the family. ◦ Leadership is “helping a group, including a family group, shape a vision of its purpose and goals and encouraging other to commit and recommit to achieving that vision”. (NASAFACS, 1998, p.19)