Goals and Aims

The objectives of SHETA are:

• To strengthen, enrich, and promote Home Economics Education throughout Saskatchewan

• To improve the quality of Home Economics Education in the education system.

• To facilitate communication among all persons engaged in Home Economics.

• To cooperate with and promote assistance to all allied organizations in Practical and Applied Arts, Health and Family

Goals and initiatives for the next year
When we sat down as an executive this fall, we decided on 5 major things we wanted to see happen and here is a short summary of them:

1. A cookbook resource for teachers to use with their kids with recipes that have already been tried and tested with students. Many of them are also adapted so that they make smaller amounts and many tend to use items one
would usually have on hand. Volume one of this cook book will be part of VISTA that will be coming out in the next few weeks!

2. Setting up summer short courses for teachers to access to learn new skills and gather more resources. This has been done already and we will have a session on sewing skills and project ideas as well as a session on
interior design.

3. Recognizing professional development time that members of the executive put in as well as members attending convention in the fal lis important to us. We have to be our own advocates and to do that we have developed certificates and letters of recognition that can be included in personnel files, resumes and portfolios.

4. Continuing our support of the home economics program here at the U of S is another one of our goals. We have been working towards this goal by revamping our scholarship criteria, encouraging our more southernly teachers to take interns and to encourage any funding that a member chooses to contribute to go directly to the faculty.

5. Our final goal is to be better mentors and support people for teachers new to home economics- whether it be because they are new to the profession, new to the province or just new to the subject area. Organization at the council level needs to be improved in order for us to do a better job at this, but we recognize the importance of it and are working towards making this a much smoother process. The subject area of home economics itself is going through some very major changes and SHETA gets to play a major role in which direction and attitude we end up taking towards this change. New curricula, new evaluation and record keeping, increased participants in our classes, embracing technology and computer use and better and better resource materials all make it an exciting, although sometimes stressful and confusing time to be a home economics teacher!!

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