INstructor: theresa mcdowell
courses:
Life and Career Planning
This course is designed for 11th and 12th grade students. This course is designed to help students learn to manage issues in everyday living, prepare for personal life and career responsibilities and develop employability skills. Participation in this course facilitates greater self-awareness, enhanced relationships, improved cultural competencies and increased control over choosing direction for one's own life and career.
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Culinary 1
This course is designed for 10th , 11th and 12th grade students. This course will focus on the foodservice industry and provide training in workplace and culinary skills, food safety and sanitation, interpersonal and communication skills, as well
as an exposure to the areas of restaurant management and career exploration.
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Culinary 2
This course is designed for 11th and 12th grade students. This course is an advanced course which is focuses on the foodservice industry and provides training in workplace and culinary skills, interpersonal and communication skills, as well as an exposure to the areas of restaurant management and career
exploration. Students may seek to acquire ServSafe Certification at this level through the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation.
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Leadership and Ethics
This course is designed for 9th - 12th grade students. This course is designed to provide a background of leadership styles and information on the necessary leadership skills including collaboration, ethics and teamwork. The course is assessed with a real-life opportunity to demonstrate ones own leadership style through a practical, personal experience.
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Introduction to Human Services/Family Consumer Science
This course is typically taken by 9th and 10th grade students This course is intended to enable students to have a broad range of experiences that will provide an overview and fundamental knowledge and essential skills of Human Sciences with a foundation but not limited to family and consumer sciences.
Students will explore career possibilities and develop a personal learning plan. Students will practice basic life and career readiness skills and learn to apply them to personal life situations.
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Relationships
This course is designed for 11th and 12th grade students. This course includes the study of interpersonal relationships and the effect of these relationships on the well-being of individuals, families, work and society. The course includes concepts such as effective communication, establishing and maintaining relationships, diverse family systems, characteristics of
personal development and the impact of relationships on personal and
career success.
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Fundamentals of Food and Nutrition
This course is designed for 10th , 11th and 12th grade students. This course is designed to provide students with the base foundation knowledge of food
selection and preparation needed to successfully fuel the human body through consumption of food and resulting food energy. With a beginning foundation of nutrition and food science, students will learn basic preparation skills, the reason behind the reactions of foods and the short-term and long-term wellness consequences as a result of nutritional intake, and exposure to careers related to the food industry
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Teen Living
This is an introductory Family Consumer Science course. In this course, we will
examine nutrition and foods, Choose My Plate and meal planning, cooking
utensils and their use, lab safety and sanitation, manners and etiquette, healthy and unhealthy relationships, roles, family structures and family functions.