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1850s Late 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.

Early 1900s 1945

Improve lives of families & communities .

College programs provided links to U.S. Dept. of Agriculture.

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

Today’s World Multiple tasks

Prepare students for family life, work life and careers.

Use knowledge to improve quality of life.

Late 1900s Women in the workforce

Women enter wage earning careers and men’s work extended to homemaking and parenting roles.

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.

VOCATIONAL EDUCATION CAREER 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

Key Indicators In 1900 In 2004

Life ExpectancyNational – 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)Missouri – 85.5%(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)

Infant Deaths 100 per 1000(www.cdc.gov)

National - 6.79 per 1000Missouri – 7.6 per 1000(www.cdc.gov)

Education Beyond High School *1.9% college degree

National – 26.6%Missouri – 24%(www.schoolmatters.org)

What Has Changed?What courses in public

education have facilitated this change?

FOCUS FOR THE FUTURETherefore we need to focus on…

Family & Individual HealthFoods & NutritionChild DevelopmentPhysical Education

Human Development Health Physical Fitness Nutrition

Core CoursesCareer & 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 DevelopmentHuman Development

Foods & Nutrition

Human Development Prenatal Care Health Interpersonal Relationships

Core CoursesCareer & Tech Ed Courses

Fine Arts Courses

Guiding students towards a personal plan of study

Leadership Skills Appropriate extra curricular activities

Societal changes drive curriculum.

Labor Market Data shows career demands.

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?

Tech Prep◦ Articulation agreements

School to work Embedded Credit Career Clusters Career Paths Programs of Study

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.

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.

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.

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)