Name:  Mrs. Wozniak

Grade(s):  all 8^th, ½ of 7th

Subject(s): FACS

FACS:  This is the third year that we are offering the DEPCO program that allows students to explore different careers in the Family and Consumer Science (FACS) field.  Each career module informs students of the potential job market and characteristics of that career.  Many hands on activities are included within each module.

DEPCO states:

A key objective in the DEPCO Career and Technology programs is to help students understand the workplace and gain skills necessary for success. Most students will spend more than a third of their lives in a diverse and constantly changing workplace. Regardless of personal, career or educational plans, students must demonstrate proficiency both in academics and the following workplace standards:
   • Students use principles of effective oral, written and listening communication skills to make decisions and solve workplace problems.
   • Students apply computation skills and data analysis techniques to make decisions and solve workplace problems.
   • Students apply critical and creative thinking skills to make decisions and solve workplace problems.
   • Students work individually and collaboratively within team settings to accomplish objectives.
   • Students demonstrate a set of marketable skills, which enhance career options.
   • Students illustrate how social, organizational and technological systems function.
   • Students demonstrate technological literacy for productivity in the workplace.
   • Students apply principles of resource management and develop skills that promote personal and professional well-being.

These higher-level academic and technical skills are most effectively learned in an integrated self-directed career lab where students learn by doing. Student acquisition of critical workplace skills, with an emphasis on application, is a developmental process, which encompasses an individual's entire lifetime.

Rules:

1. You are subject to Brooks Middle School handbook rules.
2. You are expected to be on time for class.
3. You are expected to treat your classmates and teacher with respect at all times.
4. You are expected to take care of all equipment and furniture in the lab.
5. Do not bring any food, drink, or gum into the classroom.
6. You are to stay in your assigned station unless given permission by the instructor, even if you are finished with the activity!
7. You must stay on task at your station or you will lose your right to work in the lab for the day and the activity of the day must be made up on your own time.
8. Do not play with or handle equipment not intended for use in the day’s activity.  The module supply boxes contain items for use in several different activities and you are expected to use only what is called for by the given activity.  NEVER touch someone else’s supplies!