Minnesota Department of Education
Academic Standards Course Framework
Interpersonal Relationships
Interpersonal Relationships is an introductory course that is especially relevant for students interested in careers that involve interacting with people. It is also valuable for all students as a life foundation and academic enrichment. This course addresses knowledge and skills needed for positive and productive relationships in career, community, and family settings. Major course topics include communication skills; leadership, teamwork, and collaboration; conflict prevention, resolution, and management; building and maintaining relationships; and individual needs and characteristics and their impacts on relationships. A project-based approach that utilizes higher order thinking, communication, leadership, and management processes, and fundamentals to college and career success is recommended in order to integrate these topics into the study of interpersonal relationships. Direct, concrete language arts proficiencies will be applied. Service learning and other authentic applications are strongly recommended. This course provides a foundation for continuing and post-secondary education for all career areas that involve interacting with people both inside and outside of a business/organization, including team members, clients, patients, customers, and the general public.
Recommended 9-12
Career and Technical Student Organizations (CTSOs)
Career and Technical Student Organizations are considered a powerful instructional tool when integrated into Career and Technical Education programs. They enhance the knowledge and skills students learn in a course by allowing a student to participate in a unique program of career and leadership development. Students should be encouraged to participate in FCCLA (Family, Career and Community Leaders of America), the CTSO for this are.
21st Century Skills should be an integral part of all courses being taught. These soft skills are the foundation for all Career and Technical Education.
Critical Thinking and Reasoning: Thinking Deeply, Thinking Differently
Information Literacy: Untangling the Web
Collaboration: Working Together, Learning Together
Self-Direction: Own Your Learning
Invention: Creating Solutions
Possible Course TitlesInterpersonal Relationships and Family Relations
Family Living
IP (Interpersonal Relations)
Teen Issues
Human Relations
Family Life
Adult Roles and Responsibilities
- STEM/STEAM Connections
- Career Pathways
- This class is the center of the Minnesota Career Fields, Clusters and Pathways. It is recommended that students take this class as a foundation for all Career Pathways.
Career Field: Health Science TechnologyCareer Cluster:Health ScienceCareer Pathways:Support Services, Therapeutic Services
Key
FACS=Family and Consumer Sciences
MIPR=Minnesota Interpersonal Relationships
STEM=Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math
STEAM=Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, & Math
FCCLA=Family, Community, & Career Leaders of America
FCCLA Student Leadership Opportunities:*Career Investigation *Entrepreneurship *Illustrated Talk *Job Interview
Topic: Communication
Minnesota Frameworks: Demonstrate communication skills contributing to positive relationships.
National Standard Correlation: 13.3 Demonstrate communication skill that contribute to positive relationship.
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13.3.3 / Choose effective listening and feedback techniques and assess their influences on relationships, in career, community, and family settings.
13.3.5 / Relate ethical principles of communication in family, community and work settings (i.e. choose appropriate communication methods and styles for business and social situations).
13.1.1 / Analyze communication styles and their effects on relationships (i.e. basic components of communication processes).
13.1.6 / Examine impacts of stress management on relationships in career, community, and family settings.
Topic: Personal Development
Minnesota Frameworks:
National Standard Correlation: 13.2 Analyze personal needs and characteristics and their effects on interpersonal relationships.
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13.2.5 / Describe the effects of self-esteem and self-image on relationships, in career, and family settings (i.e. personal needs and wants
13.5 / Demonstrate teamwork and leaderships skills in the family, workplace and community.
13.5.2 / Evaluate leadership styles and techniques used to motivate, encourage and build trust in group members in career, community and family settings.
13.3.7 / Examine and demonstrate processes for cooperating, compromising, and collaborating in career, community and family setting.
6.1.7 / Analyze how interpersonal relationship skills are related to a variety of careers.
6.1.7 / Analyze the ways family and consumer science careers influence interpersonal relationships (i.e. family & marriage counselors, dietary, early childhood)
Topic: Healthy Relationships
Minnesota Frameworks: Examine processes for building and maintain various types of relationships in career, community, and family settings.
National Standard Correlation: 13.1 Analyze functions and expectations of various types of relationships.
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13.1.4 / Examine and contrast characteristics, consequences and factors of healthy and unhealthy relationships in career, community, and family settings (i.e. sexual harassment, violence and control cycle).
13.1.3 / Examine and compareways relationship are influenced by physical, intellectual, emotional, social, spiritual and moral development.
13.3.1 / Analyze processes for building and maintaining interpersonal relationships (i.e. theories of attraction and mate selection, stages of love).
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13.2.4 / Examine the effects of the life span events during the various stages of the family life cycle.
13.1.4 / Implement strategies to increase tolerance of individual or group differences, prevent bullying, violence, and abuse; and encourage peaceful resolution of conflict in career, community and family settings.
13.1.4 / Describe key components of preventing, resolving, and managing conflicts in career, community, and family settings.
1.3.4 / Assess community resources, services, and agencies that support individuals (i.e. Work Force Center, Suicide Hotline, Social Service and Public Health).
Topic: Personal, Academic, Career and Community Success
Minnesota Framework: Integrate processes of decision-making, goal-setting, and problem solving to achieve personal, academic and career success.
National Standard Correlation: 13.6 Demonstrate standards that guide behavior in interpersonal relationships.
13.4 Evaluate effective conflict prevention and management techniques.
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1.1.5 / Develop strategies for goal-setting and achievement.
13.4.3 / Devise management, decision-making, and problem solving processes to accomplish tasks and fulfill responsibilities.
13.6.3 / Apply critical thinking, creative thinking, ethical standards and reasoning when making judgments and taking action.
13.6.1 / Relate critical thinking and ethical criteria to evaluate interpersonal relationships, family, workplace and community settings.
1.2 / Evaluate fundamentals to college and career success (i.e. strong work ethic, time-management, positive attitude, adaptability/flexibility, stress resilience, accountability, self-discipline, resourcefulness, cooperation, self-assessment)
1.3.4 / Analyze community resources and systems of formal and informal support available to individuals and families.
Topic: Global Trends
Minnesota Frameworks:
National Standard Correlation: 2.2 Analyze the relationship of the environment to family and consumer resources.
2.4 Evaluate the effects of technology on individual and family resources.
STEM/STEAM Standard: 5A Humans can devise technology to conserve water, soil and energy such techniques as reusing, reducing and recycling.
5C With the aid of technology various aspect of the environment can be monitored to provide information for decision-making.
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13.3.6 / Assess impacts of selection and use of communication technologies on relationships in career, community and family settings.
Analyze impacts of personal standards and behaviors on the community and environment.
13.6.5 / Compare the opposing points of view regarding current ethical and cultural issues (i.e. new immigration populations into a community)
Apply technology and examine its impact on quality of life and family resources.
13.5.1 / Create an environment that encourages and respects the ideas, perspectives, and contributions of all group members.
2.2.2 / Summarize environmental trends and issues affecting families and future generations.
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2.4.1 / Assess the types and use of technology and its effect on quality of life.
6.2.5 / Demonstrate respect for diversity with sensitivity to anti-bias, gender, equity, age, culture and ethnicity.
6.1.7 / Analyze the ways family and consumer science careers integrated into the field interpersonal relationships
Resources: SEARCH Institute- Forty Developmental Assets
Dibble Institute Curriculum Guides (Love U2, Love Notes, Relationship Smarts 3.0, Connections: Dating & Emotions, Connections: Relationships and Marriage, Money Habitudes, Art of Loving Well, Dating Smarts, Hip Hop Dating Guide, PREPARE-INRICH-INSPIRE, Rationality, Things To Know, What’s Real, Mike’s Crush,)
Dibble Webinars
The Dynamics of Relationships by Patricia Kramer
Learning Zone Express: Character: Friendship Basics DVD; Character: Self Esteem Basics DVD; Five Minute Relationships; Relationships, Communications Challenge Mini Unit; Brochure – Four Importance Signs of Healthy Relationship; Communication Basics DVD; Living with Loss Curriculum; Brochure – When Couples Fight;
Dr. Philip McGraw, The Relationship Rescue Workbook
Henry Cloud, Boundaries in Dating Workbook
John Gray, Men are from Mars and Women from Venus (Book & Game)
Gary Chapman, Five Love Languages
The Secret DVD