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Appendix F- Work Based Alignments to National Family and Consumer Sciences Standards

Career, Community, and Family Connections

1.2 Demonstrate transferable knowledge, attitudes, and technical and employability skills in school, community, and workplace settings.
1.2.1    Analyze potential career choices to determine the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and opportunities associated with each career.
1.2.2    Demonstrate job seeking and job keeping skills.
1.2.3    Apply communication skills in school, community, and workplace settings and with diverse populations.
1.2.4    Demonstrate teamwork skills in school, community, and workplace settings and with diverse populations.
1.2.5    Analyze future-ready strategies to shape, manage, and utilize change, including changing technologies, in workplace settings.
1.2.6    Demonstrate leadership skills and abilities in school, workplace, and community settings.
1.2.7    Analyze factors that contribute to maintaining safe and healthy school, work, and community environments.
1.2.8    Demonstrate employability skills, work ethics, and professionalism

Consumer Services

    1. Analyze career paths within consumer services industries.
3.1.2    Analyze opportunities for employment and entrepreneurial endeavors.

Education and Early Childhood

    1. Analyze career paths within early childhood, education & related services.
4.1.2    Analyze opportunities for employment, entrepreneurial endeavors, and emerging careers.
4.6 Demonstrate professional practices and standards related to working with children, youth, and adults, including diverse populations.
4.6.5    Examine entrepreneurial and management skills to planning businesses in early childhood, education, and services.

Facilities and Property Management

    1. Analyze career paths within the facilities management and maintenance areas.
5.1.2    Analyze opportunities for employment and entrepreneurial endeavors.
5.7 Demonstrate facilities management functions.
5.7.4    Conduct orientation, regular training and education, and on-the-job training/retraining, consider employee diversity.

Family and Human Services

    1. Analyze career paths within the family and human services.
7.1.2    Investigate opportunities for employment and entrepreneurial endeavors.
7.2 Analyze factors in providing family and human services.
7.2.7    Investigate community-networking opportunities in family and human services.
7.3 Demonstrate professional behaviors, skills, and knowledge in providing family and human services.
7.3.2    Demonstrate professional and ethical behavior with peers in a variety of settings.

Food Production and Services

    1. Analyze career paths within the food production and food services industries.
8.1.2    Analyze opportunities for employment and entrepreneurial endeavors.
8.6 Demonstrate implementation of food service management and leadership functions.
8.6.7    Conduct staff orientation, initial training and education, consistent reinforcement of training principles, and on-the-job training/retraining.
8.7 Demonstrate the concept of internal and external customer service.
8.7.3    Analyze the relationship between employee attitude and skills and customer satisfaction.
8.7.4    Apply procedures for addressing and resolving complaints.

Food Science, Dietetics, and Nutrition

    1. Analyze career paths within food science, food technology, dietetics, and nutrition industries.
      1. Analyze opportunities for employment and entrepreneurial endeavors.
10.0 Hospitality, Tourism, and Recreation
10.1 Analyze career paths within the hospitality, tourism, and recreation industries.
10.1.2 Analyze opportunities for employment in hospitality, tourism, and recreation careers.
10.2 Demonstrate procedures applied to safety, security, and environmental issues.
      10.2.2  Demonstrate procedures for assuring guest or customer safety.
      10.2.3  Evaluate evacuation plans and emergency procedures.
10.3 Apply concepts of quality service to ensure customer satisfaction.
10.3.1  Apply industry standards for service that meets cultural and geographic expectations of guests or customers.
10.3.2  Analyze how employee dispositions can impact customer satisfaction.
10.3.3  Apply a system to evaluate and resolve employee, employer, guest, or customer complaints.
10.3.4  Analyze effects of customer relations on the success of the hospitality, tourism, and/or recreation industry.
10.4 Demonstrate practices and skills involved in hospitality and lodging occupations.
      10.4.1  Demonstrate front desk, office, and customer services skills.
      10.4.3  Manage convention, meeting, and banquet support functions.
      10.4.4  Apply basic food preparation and service skills in catering operations.
10.4.6  Apply facility management, maintenance, and service skills to hospitality and lodging operations.
      10.4.7  Apply time and work management skills to facility service tasks.
10.6 Demonstrate management of recreation, leisure, and other programs and events.
      10.6.1  Coordinate client inquiries and requests.
10.6.3  Organize resources and information about locations, facilities, suppliers, and vendors for specific services.
10.6.4  Prepare event materials for distribution.
10.6.6  Manage programs and events for specific age groups or diverse populations.
10.6.7  Promote wellness initiatives through recreation and leisure programs and events.

 

Housing and Interior Design

11.1 Analyze career paths within the housing, interior design, and furnishings industries.
11.1.2  Analyze career paths and opportunities for employment and entrepreneurial endeavors.
11.3 Apply residential and commercial interior design knowledge, skills, and processes to meet specific design needs.
11.3.3  Demonstrate measuring, estimating, ordering, purchasing, pricing, and repurposing skills.
11.3.4  Appraise various interior furnishings, finishes, fixtures, appliances, and equipment to provide cost and quality choices for clients.
11.3.6  Demonstrate design processes such as determining the scope of the project, programming, research, concept development, schematic design, design drawing, and design development and presentation.
11.6 Evaluate the client’s needs, goals, and resources in creating design plans for housing and residential and commercial interiors.
11.6.2  Assess the client’s community, family, and financial resources needed to achieve housing and interior design goals.
11.6.4  Critique design plans to address the client’s needs, goals, and resources.
11.6.5  Justify design solutions relative to client needs, including diversity and cultural needs, and the design process.
11.8 Analyze professional practices and procedures for business profitability and career success, and the role of ethics in the housing, interiors, and furnishings industries.
11.8.2  Analyze personal and employer responsibilities and liabilities regarding industry-related safety, security, and environmental factors.
11.8.3  Describe security and inventory control strategies, laws and regulations, and worksite policies and procedures that affect loss prevention and profit.
11.8.4  Demonstrate procedures for reporting and handling accidents, safety, and security incidents.
11.8.5  Apply procedures for maintaining inventory control and loss prevention, including cash and credit transactions.
11.8.6  Analyze operational costs such as markups, markdowns, cash flow, and other factors affecting profit.
16.0 Textiles, Fashion, and Apparel
16.1 Analyze career paths within textiles, fashion, and apparel industries.
     16.1.2  Analyze opportunities for employment and entrepreneurial endeavors.
16.4 Demonstrate skills needed to produce, alter, or repair textiles, fashion, and apparel.
16.4.1  Demonstrate professional skills in using traditional and technologically innovative equipment, tools, and supplies in textiles, fashion, and apparel construction, alteration, repair, and recycling.
16.4.3  Use appropriate industry products and materials for cleaning, pressing, and finishing textiles, fashion, and apparel.
16.4.5  Demonstrate basic skills for production, alteration, repair, and recycling of textiles, fashion, and apparel.
16.6 Evaluate the components of customer service.
                        16.6.3  Demonstrate the skills necessary for quality customer service.
                        16.6.4  Create solutions to address customer concerns.
16.7 Demonstrate professional operational practices required for business profitability and career success.
16.7.2  Analyze personal and employer responsibilities and liabilities regarding industry-related safety, security, sustainability, and environmental factors.
16.7.3  Analyze the effects of operational procedures such as security and inventory control strategies, cash and credit transaction methods, and worksite policies on loss prevention and store profit.
16.7.4  Demonstrate procedures for reporting and handling accidents, safety, and security incidents.
16.7.5  Analyze wholesale and retail operational processes and other factors affecting profit.
If your state has developed FCS curriculum standards, then be sure and locate the alignment of these standards to WBL so you can include them as justification for providing a multitude of WBL experiences for students.

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