This curriculum guide is designed to ensure student attainment of basic home economics content knowledges and skills that will provide a strong foundation for employment in the fashion industry. Competency/skill and task lists are followed by employability skills charts for the occupations of fashion coordinator and fabric coordinator; the charts…

This curriculum guide on textiles and clothing, covering one of the five content areas of the Energy and Family Curriculum Guide, has been designed to provide learning experiences and identify resources that can be used to develop units of study related to energy usage and conservation. The guide is intended for use in comprehensive courses of…

Developed with input from personnel in the industries, this curriculum guide complements a companion reference book about various areas of the textiles and apparel industries. Each of the 22 chapters of the guide begins with 1 or more essential elements and objectives, and each chapter consists of teaching strategies for classroom use. Teaching…

These materials for the curriculum area of meeting personal and family textile needs comprise one of six such packages that are part of the Ohio Vocational Consumer/Homemaking Curriculum Guide. The curriculum area or perennial problem taken us in this document is divided into three practical problems about what to do regarding: (1) physical,…

Studying home economics can help young people face the challenges families are encountering in today's increasingly complex and ever changing world. The home economics curriculum strives to help students recognize that they, through individual as well as joint efforts, can improve the standards and conditions for all, thus leading to an improved…

This curriculum bulletin provides a curriculum for a one-year course in fashion merchandising, offered in the third year of the marketing education sequence. It is designed to give students majoring in marketing a survey of basic information about the field of fashion merchandising. Students are offered the opportunity to become familiar with a…

This curriculum guide is designed to help teachers teach a course in fashion merchandising to high school students. The guide contains eight performance-based learning modules, each consisting of one to seven units. Each unit teaches a job-relevant task, and includes performance objectives, performance guides, resources, learning activities,…

This guide for an adult marketing education course provides instructors with the necessary materials to present a seminar about "image management to project professionalism." General teaching suggestions are provided as well as a course outline and a time chart that provides guidelines for the minimum and maximum time to be spent on each…

This curriculum guide is designed to help teachers assist secondary students in Alberta (Canada) in meeting the following objectives: develop skills that can be applied in their daily lives, refine career planning skills, develop technology-related skills in fashion production and merchandising, enhance employability skills, and apply and…

This curriculum guide contains content outlines and outlines of the specific learning objectives for all courses taught in the Home Economics Department of Sweet Grass County High School, Montana. The courses are Homemaking for Today, Foods and Nutrition, Housing and Home Furnishings, Single Survival, Clothing I, Clothing II, Family Life, and…

This curriculum guide provides a useful framework for an 11-unit competency-based course in consumer education, one of the semester courses required for a Type B vocational consumer and homemaking education program in Missouri. Both unit and specific objectives are provided for each unit. The cross-reference table of instructional materials in…

This guide for junior high school home economics provides teachers with a curriculum for grades 7, 8, and 9. An "Overview" section presents the rationale, discusses how the content of home economics programs is related to the developmental stages of the adolescent, describes the program structure, and lists program objectives. The "Implementation"…

This task-based curriculum guide for clothing management is intended to help the teacher develop a classroom management system where students learn by doing. Introductory materials include a Dictionary of Occupational Titles job code and title sheet, a career ladder, a matrix relating duty/task numbers to job titles, and a task list. Each task is…

This guide presents, in syllabus form, an outline training program for rehabilitation teachers, supervisors, and related staff to provide educational information and experience-oriented training in innovative techniques of teaching legally blind adults. It begins with a checklist of points to remember in teaching blind and visually impaired adults…

This curriculum, part of a coordinated exploratory vocational core program, is an activity-oriented instructional course that enables students in grades 6-7 to explore careers and skills related to consumer and occupational roles. The curriculum consists of five units: (1) independent living skills; (2) families; (3) child care; (4) textiles…