2025 Iowa Family and Consumer Sciences Educators Conference

Knives and Fire ~ What Could Go Wrong: Management  Strategies in the Culinary Classroom
-Glenda Seward, Mid-Prairie High School
Looking for ideas to help organize your culinary arts classroom and streamline management? This session will share tips and tricks for setting up and managing your lab/classroom, and supporting students in gaining real-world experience, confidence, and independence as they work and learn there. Topics include lab operating procedures, orientation, ongoing management,  recipe management, lab work assessment,  and curriculum. Attendees will learn time management strategies for improving work-life balance while working as a culinary teacher.
Attendees will gain confidence in leading culinary lab experiences.
Attendees will learn strategies for orienting students to the work in a culinary classroom setting.

Global Cuisine: The Amazing Trek
-Glenda Seward, Mid-Prairie High School
Looking for ideas to incorporate international cuisine into your curriculum? This session provides lesson plan details, recipes, tips, and strategies for promoting greater appreciation and understanding of international cultures and global cuisine. Student teams engage in an immersive game structure to trek to various world regions where they learn about the culture, cuisine, and cooking techniques unique to each region we visit and compete to earn  'miles' with presentations and food sampling for a team of judges. The ideas and plans from this session can be adapted for use, whether you are teaching a unit or a full course.
Attendees will learn effective strategies for teaching units and courses in global cuisine, international foods. Attendees will leave with access to lesson plans and teaching materials to adapt for their classrooms to teach this content.

Resources for Building Your Classroom Community
- Marjorie Lane, Iowa City Schools

Discover GOATRACE, How to Grow Your Support System, and how to write your CTE Hero's Journey. Tips and tricks to make any FCS class interesting and engaging.