HSFL Essential Skills

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Family/Consumer Science Essential Skills for Level 9-12

Students will be able to:

Analyze strategies to manage multiple individual, family, career, and community roles and responsibilities. Family & Consumer Science Standard 1

Understand the policies, issues, and trends in the workplace and community and how that will affect each individual and family.
Understand how individual career goals can enhance the family’s ability to meet family goals.
Understand the impact of a career choice can effect decisions of balancing work and family.
Understand the importance of setting life-long learning and leisure opportunities for all family members and how these goals will affect the family.

Analyze the relationship of the environment to Family and Consumer Resources. Family & Consumer Science Standard 2.2

Understand their individual responsibility in relation to the environmental trends and issues.
Examine environmental trends and issues’ effects on families and future generations.
Understand the behaviors, the conserve, reuse, and recycle resources to maintain the environment.
Investigate government regulations for conserving natural resources.

Analyze policies that support consumer right and responsibilities. Family & Consumer Science Standard 2.3

Demonstrate respectful and caring relationships in the family, workplace, and community. Family & Consumer Science Standard 13

Understand the processes for building and maintaining interpersonal relationships.
Understand the impact of various stages of the family life cycle on interpersonal relationships.
Compare and understand the physical, emotional, and intellectual responses in stable and unstable relationships.
Know what determining factors that contribute to healthy and unhealthy relationships.
Understand the process for handling unhealthy relationships.
Know what stress management strategies to use for family, work, and community settings.