Home economics teaching
Teachers of home economics/ design and technology/ health/ hospitality might perform the following tasks:
Provide opportunities for students to understand and shape preferred solutions to a range of challenges in their personal, family, community and work roles. For example, they may develop and implement learning experiences that enable students to learn how to:
- Be innovative, enterprising and creative
- Balance work responsibilities with personal responsibilities and leisure
- Choose nutritious foods in a changing marketplace
- Design, evaluate and make decisions related to textiles and food
- Make informed, responsible and ethical consumer decisions
- Negotiate for effective and diverse family and interpersonal relationships
- Prepare nutritious foods and develop health promoting food behaviours
- Take control of their health and develop health promoting behaviours
- Understand and take action to enhance human growth and development
- Understand and confront the way they influence and are influenced by broad societal factors such as media, advertising, peer pressure, government policies and changing technologies
- Utilise design and technology relevant to families and households
Provide opportunities for students to develop vocationally related knowledge and skills such as those related to food technology, hospitality, childcare and the design and textile industries.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 22 February 2012 23:06