| Session |
Title and Description |
Presenters
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| B.1 |
Cross-Curricular Classroom Connections Between Family and Consumer Sciences and Engineering
Making intentional cross-curricular connections enables students to have a higher degree of buy-in when it comes to their learning. This session will show ways to make these connections between FCS and engineering by discussing lessons completed within the partnership of an FCS classroom and Project Lead the Way Engineering classroom. After this session, you will gain immediately applicable ways to apply multiple academic disciplines simultaneously in your FCS program.
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Gencie Houy
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| B.2 |
The Discussion Project: Engaging Students in the Classroom
The Discussion Project is an innovative learning strategy that creates a welcoming, engaging, and rigorous classroom environment to help students experience productive discussions on diverse issues and topics
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Jacqueline Holland
Glenda Lindsey
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| B.3 |
Increase Classroom Engagement - Create an Escape Room
A classroom Escape Room activity is an engaging strategy to teach family and consumer sciences content. Visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners can benefit from this active learning strategy. This session will describe how to design an escape room lesson activity, and review the supplies needed and potential costs, and considerations for designing the project.
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Lorna Saboe-Wounded Head |
| B.4 |
FCCLA....Where Do We Start?
How do Family and Consumer Sciences teacher educators prepare the next generation of FCCLA advisers to take on that complex role? What types of in and out of class activities and assignments can be used to help students gain knowledge about the organization and prepare for the responsibilities of the advisor? Resources and ideas for each of the four FCCLA Adviser Professional Standards will be shared, as well as time to brainstorm and share with other FCS teacher educators.
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Carol Erwin |
| B.5 |
Critical Reading, Writing and Listening in FCS
In this hands-on session, participants will experience and receive a toolkit of evidence-driven strategies to enhance the development of critical literacy skills among learners in their FCS environment. Attendees will also explore how reading, writing, and listening skills create the context in which reasoning and thinking abilities are built as a part of the Critical Science Approach.
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Nicole Wanago |
| B.6 |
Prepared at Any Age: Do Your Heirs a Favor and Have Your Financial Affairs and Last Wishes in Order
Losing a loved one is a traumatic for everyone. Losing one whose financial affairs and end of life decisions are unknown is devastating. Drawing on recent experiences with the loss of an adult daughter, Donna Graham will share the journey of settling an estate. Recognizing that the process would have been much easier if all the documents had been in order and her daughter's wishes known, she now encourages professionals at any age to make those decisions and get their documents created and filed.
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Donna Graham
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