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FCS CRP Progress
In January 2007, the new website, www.ilcte.org was launched. Twenty five new lessons were added to the Lesson Plan Library, including 21 lessons in Food Science and 4 in FCCLA. A webcast was held April 26 and is archived under the webcast heading. Eleven FCS Update Sessions were held throughout the state with Debbie Hopper, Marta Lockwood, and Linda Walker presenting. In December, a Structured Group Interview was held for the area of Human Growth and Development. This is a committee composed of incumbent workers. The committee members identified skills that were necessary for students entering the work place in the area of Child Care.
Since Human Growth and Development crosses the life span a Structured Group Interview was held for the Elder Care component in January 2008. These incumbent workers identified skills necessary for workers entering the field in the area of Elder Care. Based on the information supplied by the incumbent workers, a steering committee of secondary teachers identified lesson titles. In April of 2008, 25 new lessons for FCS were posted to the website. Teacher writers continue to generate new lessons.
In January 2009 a Structured Group Interview and Teacher Steering Committee was held for Nutrition and Culinary Arts. Fifty lessons are in the process of being written. Currently there are twelve lessons posted to the website under the Nutrition and Culinary Arts Lesson Library. As a result of the Human Growth and Development Structured Group Interview, there are fifty lessons in the Human Growth and Development Library. These lessons have power points and e-units. In the fall of 2009, 5 FCS Update Sessions were held around the state. Linda Walker was the presenter and Debbie Hopper participated via Skype.
In January 2010, www.Mycaert.com was unveiled. Mycaert gives a teacher the ability to assign power points and e-units to their students. They are also able to create quizzes and assign them to an entire class or to an individual student.
Two new webcasts about using free communication software in the FCS classroom are archived under the webcast tab.
In February 2010, a Structured Group Interview and Teacher Steering Committee was held for Textiles and Design. Lessons are currently being written in this area. In the fall of 2010, Debbie Hopper and Linda Walker presented 5 FCS Update sessions.
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