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has seen many go through her class — many to return to teach beside her.
“It’s nice to see them succeed,” she said with a smile.
Teaching everything from cooking to child care to budget making and nutrition, Mrs. Wood said the class hasn’t changed much over the years but has modified and grown with time.
“With child care,” she said of the 1961 version, “it was just rules and techniques for caring for children,” she said.
‘Today, it’s all different. We visit the elementary school students to offer home economics students an opportunity to work with other children. We visit the Child Care and Learning Center to work with the babies and we learn alot more about care for the mother and infant,” she said, adding textbooks offer more information and resources offer more opportunity.
“Nutrition has changed,” she said, adding years ago you learned the food groups and you were taught your diet should include them.
“Now, everyone is more concerned with diet and my teaching reflects the change,” she said, explaining students are taught to use less fat, less fried foods and to read labels.
“Years ago we never heard of saturated fat,” she said, adding today you find them on the labels of food items.
With better health came a better way to prepare foods and clean up the mess. Rearranging the home economics department has evolved slowly over the years.
The living area furniture gave way to desks and storage cabinets.
“We now have a dishwasher,” Mrs. Wood pointed toward the kitchen area where newly painted cabinets and new counters gleamed in the afternoon sun.
“Our first microwave instructions were given by the lady from Grey Stone Lodge in Madison County,” Mrs. Wood said with a smile, adding the students “were all eyes when she scrambled an egg in a paper cup.”
With constant changes in material, Mrs. Wood has spent years on the other side of the desk.
“Classes in the summer were essential,” she said, adding “at least once a year ” she would be occupied with taking classes to prepare her for teaching.
“The workshops are very important for teachers,” she said.
“They keep you abreast of what’s going on in your field,” she said.
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