Connecting School and Home Experiences

When I was a child, I had experiences with FACS everyday, whether I was helping my mom make dinner or a treat, taking care of my little brothers, helping my mom line up fabric pieces to sew, planning how to save my allowance, or decorating my bedroom with sheets and stuffed animals. For the most part, these experiences were all very positive, and helped me see that I wanted to continue having similar experiences for the rest of my life. Also, as I came to college, I reflected back on these experiences and they are ultimately what made me decide to major in Family and Consumer Science Education. These experiences gave me a positive take on all of the areas integrated into FACS, and led me to believe that the skills taught and learned in FACS classes are essential to living a happy, productive life. In my own teaching, I must be careful to remember that all students may not have had such positive experiences with these areas as I had when I was a child. Remembering this will help me understand my students better, and know what the best way to teach them will be. In my own teaching, I will try to have students make connections with the things they are learning in class to the things they do at home everyday. I think this will really help solidify my students' learning and help them more directly apply the things they are learning in class. When I am a teacher, I will assign students to take at least one piece on information they've learned from class and apply it to something at home, and then write a paragraph about what they experienced.