The philosophy and objective of the project method. Providing adequate educational experience, organizing, administering, evaluating experience programs, and may include supervised occupational experience. This course is designed to acquaint students with the process of developing community services to meet the needs of older adults. Services to meet health, financial, transportation, education, legal, housing, recreational, safety, and spiritual needs will be explored including means of initiating, financing, administering, coordinating, and evaluating service delivery systems. Observations and planned instructional experiences in diverse educational settings for a minimum of 45 hours.
Seminars provide opportunity to assess the experiences.
Partially meets Human Relations requirements for teacher certification. Methods and materials in planning, developing and evaluating human resources and family sciences programs for the adult learner in a variety of settings. Actual and simulated experiences in working with persons through human resources and family sciences in special focused areas of student's choice, e.g., adult education, career education, post-secondary education, special needs programs, consumer affairs. An examination of different instructional models and their relationship to theoretical frameworks of curriculum. Students will design instruction that supports the critical consciousness framework.