Mrs. Smith
Class overview
Independent Living Block 1+2
Independent Living is designed to teach students how to experience life in the real world without leaving the classroom. Students will take part in a Living On Your Own Simulation to help develop essential life-management skills. These units are divided into ten parts using a step-by-step approach to assuming responsibilities that will be faced once students are actually living on their own.
Living on Your Own/An Independent Living Simulation
Jean Bunnell
Becoming Money $mart/A Simulation for Financial Decision Making
Judi Deatherage Vermont Jump$tart Financial Literacy
Sewing and Advanced Sewing Block 3
Sewing and Advanced Sewing courses are designed for the student who likes to be creative and create projects that are useful and can be enjoyed for many years. Many new skills will be learned and used throughout the course. Units are designed for the beginner with no experience to the more experienced learner. The beginners will leave with a solid skill foundation and the advanced will leave with more advanced skills. Topics for both classes will rotate due to class interest.
Clothing :Fashion, Fabrics, & Construction
Includes a Hands-On Handbook for Sewing Samples
About me
I am a graduate of Framingham State University. My major was Clothing/Textiles/Mechandising
I then went on to pursue a teaching career at UMass Amherst. My major was in Family and Consumer Sciences Secondary Education.
I worked in the retail field in management and as a buyer before making the decision to pursue a career in education teaching what I loved most...Family and Consumer Sciences. These are the real life skills and knowledge that students will need and use in their future lives after high school. Teaching these skills is a way to help students feel confident and empowered in their daily lives.
Family and Consumer Sciences
Independent Living
Sewing and Advanced Sewing
Food Fundamentals
Nutrition (Vermont Tech College)
Contact Information: Room 282 msmith@wsesdvt.org School Phone: 451-3790