Mastering Kitchen Systems: 3 Ways to Prepare Students for Successful Cooking Lab Days
Cooking lab days are another level when it comes to chaos, stress, and they can even be full of magical moments. Mastering kitchen systems and preparing students for successful cooking lab days can be attainable. If you’ve spent any time in a FACS classroom during a cooking lab, you know how some groups bicker and […]
5 Effective Kitchen Systems During a Cooking Lab
Cooking lab days, you know, one of the main reasons our students sign up for FCS classes. They are the days that can make you feel confident about your classroom management or make you question what full moon, severe weather, or solar flare is throwing your students’ self-control out the window. Let’s be honest, even […]
4 Easy Routine Classroom Systems AFTER a Cooking Lab
The cooking lab is over, but this can also be where new learning can occur. Just because the lab finished, doesn’t mean you can’t have strong systems in place to continue learning. I love a good cooking lab day, but I also really enjoy the reflection piece. It might seem easier to move on and […]
3 Effective Classroom Systems for Managing Tardy Students, Missed Cooking Labs, and Absent Work
You know the feeling of like your ducks aren’t even close to being in a row. It feels like whack-a-mole trying to put out little fires left and right. And usually it’s not even lunch. What are those little, but repetitive tasks that seem to throw you off you A game? Likely it’s students who […]
Using Real-World Projects to Teach Teens About Financial Literacy
Stanley cups, Birks, AirPods, Lulu, venti coffee drinks, freshly manicured nails, and more. Your students are lacking in wants and high-end habits in their young lives. It seems they might have financial literacy covered with those kind of spending habits, but I’ve realized it’s far from it. Using real world projects to teach teens about […]
Semi Homemade Cooking Labs in the Family and Consumer Classroom
Finding ways to create semi-homemade recipes in the Family and Consumer classroom can seem time consuming or costly, but the experience and the outcome proves its worth. For many of our students, they haven’t taken the time to create something from scratch. Sometimes it’s the time, or the money, or lacking the resources. I would […]
Using Grills in the Family and Consumer Science Classroom
BBQ grills in a Family and Consumer classroom. Maybe you also have courtyard space at your building? Maybe you also want to think outside the classroom walls? If you are looking for ways to take your Family and Consumer Science cooking labs to a new level, maybe grills are an idea! (It should also be […]
Using Restaurant Inspections to Increase Awareness
Picture this: Your students are in the middle of a cooking lab when you notice small, clean up tasks being overlooked, such as spilled spices on the floor not being cleaned up. After the lab, you notice a kitchen sink is clogged due to food in the drain. Another kitchen has enough crumbs left on […]
2 Small, Consistent Actions to Promote Kindness
Small, consistent actions was part of the message when Sam Demma visited our district. He talked to students about how a teacher told him that small, consistent actions can change the world. His message was clear enough to resonate with our students and they still continue talking about how much they enjoyed his visit. I […]
4 More Easy Ways to Organize Your FACS Classroom
Have you noticed the amount of supplies are used and projects that are happening in a Family and Consumer Science classroom on a regular basis? Maybe your classroom is full of space and storage or possibly it is old and not quite set up for today’s learning. It has taken some tweaks and new ideas, […]
Teacher Websites to Help with Classroom Management
Teacher websites are one of those district approved things that is placed on your plate whether you like it or not. Sometimes you’ll find them to be quite helpful, while other times it seems like they are such a nuisance. Here is my experience with E-Hallpass, GoGuardian, and Schoolstatus. Let’s review three teacher websites that […]
5 Things I Learned from Culinary Arts Cooking Labs in the FCS Classroom- Valuable Feedback
Junior High culinary arts cooking labs in the Family and Consumer Science classroom can be a bit of chaos. Here are 5 things I have learned from food labs with 7th and 8th-grade students. 1. Be prepared I firmly believe it is better to spend more time before cooking and going over specifics. Determine what […]