CTE

Career & Technical Education

Independent Living

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Students will:

  • identify major adult responsibilities throughout the life cycle
  • understand how to manage and protect financial resources
  • apply management principles to meet individual and family needs/wants in relation to food, shelter, clothing, health care, and transportation
  • define a personal life style and make plans for attaining it, basing decisions on interests, goals, abilities, and occupational choices
  • identify leadership skills needed to obtain goals
  • analyze the interrelationship between the economic system and consumer decisions and actions o use information systems and technology to meet individual and family needs.
Last Updated: March 25, 2009