The document discusses elements of effective teaching. Effective teaching involves active learning where students learn by doing activities rather than just listening. It also involves disequilibration, where lessons challenge students' current understanding and help them construct new knowledge. Collaborative grouping and providing data for analysis, problem solving and problem finding are recommended approaches. Lessons should also be connected to students' prior knowledge and experiences through contextual learning and authentic assessment. A brief history of home economics is provided, noting its focus on the relationship between man's physical environment and his nature as a social being. Home economics originally aimed to improve home life through science but is now often defined only as sewing and cooking.

1. Elements of Effective
Teaching
What helps you to learn?
What keeps you from learning?
Draw conclusions from your
discussions . . . KWL

2. Guiding Questions
What do you need to know
to provide effective
instruction?

3. Effective Teaching:
Active learning
­learn when they “do”
­disequilibration (when things
don’t quite make sense)
­construct own knowledge
Collaborative Grouping

4. Providing data for
analysis
­problem solving
­problem finding
Critical Science
Approach
Problem Based Learning
Problem

5. Connected
­to prior knowledge
­to experience
Contextual
Learning
Authentic Assessment
Thematic Instruction

6. HISTORY OF OUR CONTENT
“Home Economics in its most comprehensive
sense is the sthdy of the laws, conditions,
principles, and ideals which are concerned on the
one hand with man’s immediate physical
environment and on the other hand, with his nature
as a social being, and is the study espcially of the
relation between these two factors . . .”
Lake Placid Conference, 1902

7. Home Economics Stands For
The ideal home life today unhampered by the
tradition of the past.
The utilization of all the resources of modern
science to improve the home life.

9. How are we different today?
Where does our content come from?
Why are we often defined as sewing
and cooking?

10. Social Trends

11. Curriculum Comparison
Trend:
„ FACS „ Other Content Areas

12. Assignments
Read Article “The Scottsdale Initiative:
Positioning the Profession For the 21st
Century.
Read “What Is Your EP?”
Turn in Philosophy Assignment by 9/8
class