(1) The program requires that successful candidates:

(a) analyze family, community, and work interrelationships; investigate career paths through work-based learning activities; examine family and consumer sciences careers in education and human services, hospitality and food production, and visual arts design; apply career decision making and transitional processes; and implement service learning;

(b) illustrate how each domain of human well-being can be enriched in every family and consumer sciences content area;

(c) use local and global resources responsibly to address the diverse needs and goals of individuals, families, and communities worldwide in all family and consumer sciences areas, including, but not limited to, resource management, consumer economics, financial literacy, living environments, and textiles and apparel;

(d) apply culturally responsive principles of human development and interpersonal and family relationships to strengthen individuals and families across the lifespan in contexts such as parenting, caregiving, and the workplace;

(e) promote nutrition, science, and food literacy practices; develop food preparation and production skills in personal and professional settings that enhance individual and family well-being across the lifespan, and address related concerns in a global society;

(f) develop, justify, and implement course curricula that address perennial and evolving family, career, and community issues; reflect the integrative nature of family and consumer sciences; integrate core academic areas; and reflect high quality career and technical education practices;

(g) create and implement a safe, supportive, and culturally responsive learning environment that shows sensitivity to diverse needs, values, and characteristics of students, families, and communities, including American Indians and tribes in Montana;

(h) engage in ethical professional practice based on the history and philosophy of family and consumer sciences; relationship to career and technical education through civic engagement, advocacy, and collaboration with other professionals; recruitment and mentoring of prospective and new professionals; and ongoing professional development;

(i) collect student and program data to assess, evaluate, and improve student learning and programs in family and consumer sciences using evidence-based criteria, standards, and processes;

(j) integrate leadership strategies into the program to develop students' academic growth, application of family and consumer sciences content, leadership, service learning, and career development; 

(k) facilitate students' critical literacy and problem solving in family and consumer sciences through varied instructional strategies and technologies by experience of modeling responsible management of resources in schools, communities, and the workplace; and

(l)  develop, implement, and demonstrate laboratory policies and procedures based on current industry standards specific to the focus of the course to ensure a culture of safety for students and clients.