Curriculum Models for Consumer and Homemaking Education.

Overview & Synopsis

The purpose of the project reported here involving six high schools and one community college in California was to implement and evaluate consumer education curriculum models comprised of instructional modules developed by teachers in each of the participating schools. After presenting a brief overview of the project, this report describes the seven curriculum models. Described for each are the following: administrators and department staff, the school community, the school, the consumer and homemaking education department, special features of the program, goals for consumer education, aspects of consumer education taught in courses, and staff evaluation of the project outcomes. Appended to the report are a status report of curriculum models form, a student population information sheet, a checklist of steps in field-testing modules, a checklist for assessing the curriculum module, an example of an instructional module, and a sample pre- and post-test. (EM)