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Shaping Your Future
© 2000
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Authors: Eubanks, Sasse, and Glosson
Student Edition 0-02-637967-8
Teacher's Annotated Edition 0-02-637968-6
Teacher's Resource Binder 0-02-637969-4 |
As students face the realities of transitioning into their adult lives in an ever-changing world, they are faced with many complex issues surrounding day-to-day living. Shaping Your Future offers students the opportunity to develop the essential skills necessary to meet the demands of life during the first five years after high school and beyond. This exciting independent living program promotes further development of relationship skills, health and wellness habits, essential consumer skills, and foundational career skills. |
Features
- Prepares students for adult life by teaching students basic skills to enhance relationships, exercise consumer rights and responsibilities, and enter the global workplace.
- Models a practical problem-solving approach by helping students explore issues related to living on their own. The relevant, real-life examples and activities capture student interest regarding issues they will be experiencing as they approach high school graduation.
- Encourages active learning and encourages students to use their resources in combination with decision-making, critical thinking, problem solving, and management skills. The text emphasizes the process skills identified in the Family and Consumer Sciences Education National Standards.
- Reason Through Life's Problems guides students through the practical problem-solving process. Using a scenario format, each feature focuses on a practical problem typically faced by many young adults. From Your Perspective processing questions are part of every feature.
- Technology Issues highlights key technology concepts that will confront students at home, at school, and in the workplace. Voicing Your Opinion follow-up questions and activities offers students an opportunity to express their viewpoints on these timely topics.
- Managing Your Resources provides a realistic look at managing human, material, and environmental resources. Using Your Resources Wisely follow-up questions help students personally relate to the topic.
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