About FCS.What is FCS? Family and Consumer Sciences. FACS is a part of Career and Technical Education (aka CTE). CTE classes emphasize essential life skills, with an emphasis on employability skills and careers.
Course Rationale Today's students are the future leaders and members of tomorrow's families, workplaces, and communities. They need to develop the social, emotional and character maturity to be able to act responsibly and productively to synthesize knowledge from multiple sources, to work cooperatively, and to apply the highest standards in all aspects of their lives. Family plays a very important role in our individual lives and in society and is widely recognized as the context in which its members learn about relation to and caring for others, acquire attitudes about learning and work, build communication and reasoning skills, learn right from wrong, and form patterns of responsible citizenship. Family members learn to work together within the family and with other families to improve conditions in the home, workplace, community, and world. Competencies Competencies further define the knowledge, skills, and practices of content standards and provide the basis for measurement criteria. They are composed of action verbs and the content to be acted upon. Similar to content standards, competencies contain verbs related to higher order thinking skills and performance, and are structured at the same level as those for the content standards. Verbs for the content standards establish the learning expectation levels that are reflected in the competencies. Competency verbs are expressed in terms that facilitate evaluation. |
Content StandardsContent standards relate to what individuals need to know and be able to do, or what is expected of the learner. They are directly related to the body of knowledge, skills, and practices belonging to the FACS discipline. The verbs for content standards are written in an action and performance mode and represent high levels of desired learning in the cognitive and psychomotor domains. Cognitive domain verbs are associated with higher order thinking skills, while psychomotor domain verbs, and Simpson's taxonomy was used as a reference for psychomotor verbs.
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Comprehensive Standards
Each Area of Study has a Comprehensive Standard that provides a broad description to assist individuals in understanding the content of the area. These standards are not designed for measurement, but to provide a general description and overall direction. |
FCS - Family & Consumer Sciences
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MOeFCS
What Is MoEFCS? The Missouri Educators of Family Consumer Sciences is a professional organization for people engaged in teaching, coordinating or supervising family consumer sciences and human services education at the middle, junior high, senior high, postsecondary or adult levels. MoEFCS is a division of the Missouri Association for Career and Technical Education (Missouri ACTE) and is affiliated with the Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE).
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