Contents: Introduction to instructional strategies: Building the home economics curriculum - a continual process -- Concepts and generalizations -- Behavioral objectives -- Developing critical thinking skills -- Designing learning experiences -- Planning -- Teaching skills -- Evaluation -- Methods of teaching: Questioning and leading discussions -- Simulated experiences -- Demonstrations -- Games for learning -- Display media -- Audio and visual media -- Technology in the classroom -- Organization for learning: Laboratory experiences -- Community resources -- Basic skills and cross credits -- Cooperative learning -- Motivation, discipline and student responsibility -- FHA/HERO -- You the educator: Managing the department -- Selecting reading materials -- Teaching family and career skills -- Professional ethics -- Contemporary Issues: Cultural diversity and gender equity -- Specific audiences: middle school needs and adult learners -- Meeting the needs of at-risk youth -- Marketing your home economics.