GAR-PAL COOPERATIVE SCHOOLS
FCCLA CHAPTER
2007-2008 FCCLA Officers
President - TBA
Vice President - TBA
Secretary - TBA
Treasurer - TBA
Public Relations Officer - TBA
ASB Representative - TBA
Advisor - Mrs. Sell
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WHAT IS FCCLA?
In July of 1999, FHA (Future Homemakers of America) changed its name to FCCLA (Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America). Our chapter is involved in many fundraisers and Community Service projects. Every member is also asked to compete in a STAR Event. STAR stands for Students Taking Action with Recognition. There are 13 categories of competition each of which are explained below. Freshmen compete in the Junior category and Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors compete in the Senior division.
Applied Technology:
An individual or team event, recognizes participants who develop a project using
technology that addresses a concern related to family and consumer sciences and/or related
occupations. The project integrates and applies content from academic subjects.
Career Investigation: An
individual event, recognizes participants who perform self-assessments, research and
explore a career, set career goals, create a plan for achieving goals, and present
information in a family and consumer sciences or related area.
Chapter Service Project: A team event,
recognizes chapter that develop and implement an in-depth project that makes a worthwhile
contribution to families, schools, and communities. Student(s) must use family and
consumer sciences and/or related occupations skills to address a need in the community and
take action on the need.
Chapter Showcase:
A team event, recognizes chapters that develop and implement a well-balanced program of
work and promote FCCLA and family and consumer sciences and/or related occupations skills
to the community.
Culinary Arts:
An individual and team event, recognizes participants who are enrolled in
occupational food service training programs for their ability to work
individually and as members of a team to produce a quality meal using industrial
culinary arts techniques and equipment.
Entrepreneurship: An individual or team event, recognizes participants who develop a plan for a small business using family and consumer sciences skills and sound business practices. Participants are evaluated on the business plan and an oral presentation and are not require to have implemented the plan. The business must relate to an area of family and consumer sciences education or related occupations.
Focus on Children:
An individual or team event, recognizes participants who use family and consumer sciences
skills to plan and conduct a child development project that has a positive impact on
children and the community.
Illustrated Talk:
An individual or team event, recognizes participants who make an oral
presentation about issues concerning family and consumer sciences and/or related
occupations. Participants use visuals to illustrate content of the
presentation.
Interpersonal Communications: An individual or team event, recognizes participants who use family and consumer sciences and/or related occupations skills and apply communication techniques to develop an individual, school or community project designed to strengthen interpersonal communications and apply communications knowledge to similar situations.
Job Interview: An individual event, recognizes participants who use family and consumer sciences and/or related occupations skills to develop a portfolio, participate in an interview and communicate a personal understanding of job requirements.
National Programs in Action:
An individual or team event recognizes participants who explain how the planning
process was used to implement a national program project.
Occupational Child Care:
An individual event, recognizes participants who submit a prepared portfolio,
develop a lesson plan and present the lesson to demonstrate their ability to use
the skills gained from their enrollment in the child care occupational area.
Parliamentary Procedure: A team event, recognizes chapters that develop a working knowledge of parliamentary law and the ability to conduct an FCCLA business meeting.
THE PLANNING PROCESS
The Planning Process is the outline FCCLA uses to help members define the different steps of their project. All projects require the use of the Planning Process although some categories use a slightly modified version. The Planning Process is as follows:
Identify Concern: What is the problem you are addressing? Why did you choose this topic? (Example: Children who are at home alone after school are at a great risk of hurting themselves and they don't have the knowledge of First Aid to take care of themselves.)
Set a Goal: What do you want to change to fix the problem? (Example: My goal is to educate the Kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd graders what to do in case of minor injuries and how to be safe when their parents aren't home.)
Plan: What steps will you take to reach your goal? Be very specific. (Example: I plan to talk research the topic and find out exactly how many students are home alone after school and for how long, ask the school nurse for information, and then make a power point presentation with pictures and colors that will appeal to young students.)
Act: Tell exactly what you did for this project and fill in anything you did that wasn't in your plan. (Example: We acted on our plan and after teaching the elementary students, we talked to a group of Parents and the Elementary Staff about what we had learned and what the students had learned so that they could help us reinforce this information. The parents were able to help by showing their children where the First Aid supplies were in their house.)
Evaluate: How did your project turn out? Was it a success? Why? Is there anything you would change about it? (Example: My project was a great success because both the students and myself learned a lot and I am confident they will be more safe in the future. If I were to do the project over, I would address students in 3rd and 4th grades as well because they have younger siblings they can watch over. Also I would have worked with another person to make the presentation more exciting.)
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