2022 - 2023
Florida Department of Education
Curriculum Framework

Program Title:	Facials Specialty 
Program Type:	Career Preparatory 
Career Cluster:	Human Services

Career Certificate Program	
Program Number	I120425	
CIP Number	0612040806	
Grade Level	30, 31	
Standard Length	220 hours	
Teacher Certification	Refer to the Program Structure section.	
CTSO	SkillsUSA, Inc.	
SOC Codes (all applicable)	39-5094 -- Skin Care Specialists	
CTE Program Resources	http://www.fldoe.org/academics/career-adult-edu/career-tech-edu/program-resources.stml	
Basic Skills Level	N/A	

Purpose

This program offers a sequence of courses that provides coherent and rigorous content aligned with challenging academic standards and relevant technical knowledge and skills needed to prepare for further education and careers in the Human Services career cluster; provides technical skill proficiency, and includes competency-based applied learning that contributes to the academic knowledge, higher-order reasoning and problem- solving skills, work attitudes, general employability skills, technical skills, and occupation-specific skills, and knowledge of all aspects of the Human Services career cluster. This program offers a broad foundation of knowledge and skills to prepare students for employment in network support services positions.

A student completing the Facials Specialist program is prepared for employment as a licensed Facials/Skin Care Specialist (SOC 39-5094). Instruction is designed to qualify students for employment upon successfully obtaining a Facials Specialty Certification.

The content includes, but is not limited to: communication, leadership, human relations and employability skills; safe and efficient work practices; Florida cosmetology law and rules; acquisition of knowledge of the facial specialist and the related chemistry; bacteriology, anatomy and physiology; art of make-up; and development of skill in performing the manipulative and electrical techniques required in the practice of facials specialist occupations.

This program focuses on broad, transferable skills and stresses understanding and demonstration of the following elements of the cosmetology industry; planning, management, finance, technical and production skills, underlying technological principles, labor, community, health, safety, and environmental issues.

Additional Information relevant to this Career and Technical Education (CTE) program is provided at the end of this document.

Program Structure

This program is a planned sequence of instruction consisting of one occupational completion point.

This program is comprised of courses which have been assigned course numbers in the SCNS (Statewide Course Numbering System) in accordance with Section 1007.24 (1), F.S. Career and Technical credit shall be awarded to the student on a transcript in accordance with Section 1001.44(3) (b), F.S.

To teach the course listed below, instructors must hold at least one of the teacher certifications indicated for that course.

The following table illustrates the postsecondary program structure:

OCP	Course Number	Course Title	Teacher Certification	Length	SOC Code	
A	CSP0266	Facials Specialist	FACIAL TEC 7 G
COSMETOL @7	7 G	220 hours	39-5094	

Regulated Programs

This program is regulated by The Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation; Florida Board of Cosmetology.

Please refer to 61G5-22.017 F.A.C. for specific hours of instruction in the indicated theory items as well as the required number of hours of services a student must complete within the program.

61G5-22.017 Minimum Curriculum for Facial Specialty Training.
Topic	Hours	
Florida Laws and Rules	4	
Sanitation	10	
Ethics	2	
Basics of Electricity	2	
Facial Techniques and Contraindications	50	
Product Chemistry	8	
Hair Removal	5	
Makeup	1	
Skin Theory, Disease and Disorders of the Skin	67	

Type of Service	Hours Required	
Facials, manual and mechanical, including masks, packs, or treatments which must be performed on a variety of skin types, including normal, oily, dry, combination, problem, and
mature.	30	
Set up, use, and maintenance of electrical devices.	1	
Hair removal, including tweezing, waxing, threading, and sugaring.	10	
Makeup applications for both daytime and nighttime looks.	10	
Lash and brow tinting.	2	
Eyelash application, individual lashes, and semi- permanent lashes.	12	
Manual extractions	6	

Common Career Technical Core – Career Ready Practices

Career Ready Practices describe the career-ready skills that educators should seek to develop in their students. These practices are not exclusive to a Career Pathway, program of study, discipline or level of education. Career Ready Practices should be taught and reinforced in all career exploration and preparation programs with increasingly higher levels of complexity and expectation as a student advances through a program of study.

1.	Act as a responsible and contributing citizen and employee.

2.	Apply appropriate academic and technical skills.

3.	Attend to personal health and financial well-being.

4.	Communicate clearly, effectively and with reason.

5.	Consider the environmental, social and economic impacts of decisions.

6.	Demonstrate creativity and innovation.

7.	Employ valid and reliable research strategies.

8.	Utilize critical thinking to make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.

9.	Model integrity, ethical leadership and effective management.

10.	Plan education and career path aligned to personal goals.

11.	Use technology to enhance productivity.

12.	Work productively in teams while using cultural/global competence.

Standards

After successfully completing this program, the student will be able to perform the following:

01.0	Identify career opportunities.
02.0	Demonstrate the importance of health, safety, and environmental management systems in organizations and their importance to organizational performance and regulatory compliance.
03.0	Employ safe, Sanitary and efficient work practices.
04.0	Demonstrate science knowledge and skills.
05.0	Explain the importance of employability skill and entrepreneurship skills.
06.0	Demonstrate leadership and teamwork skills needed to accomplish team goals and objectives.
07.0	Demonstrate personal money-management concepts, procedures, and strategies.
08.0	Describe the importance of professional ethics and legal responsibilities.
09.0	Use information technology tools.
10.0	Solve problems using critical thinking skills, creativity and innovation.
11.0	Use oral and written communication skills in creating, expressing and interpreting information and ideas.
12.0	Perform facials, manipulation and related massage, make-up, hair removal, and artificial lash application. Identify the proper chemical to be prescribed using an understanding of the chemistry that affects the nails and skin that can be described, measure and predicted. Demonstrate proper procedure and application of chemicals.

2022 - 2023
Florida Department of Education 
Student Performance Standards

Program Title: 	Facials Specialty
Career Certificate Program Number: 	I120425

Course Number: CSP0266
Occupational Completion Point: A
Facials Specialists – 220 Hours – SOC Code 39-5094	
01.0	Identify career opportunities. – The student will be able to:	
01.01	Identify career opportunities in the grooming and salon services field.	
02.0	Demonstrate the importance of health, safety, and environmental management systems in organizations and their importance to organizational performance and regulatory compliance. – The students will be able to:	
02.01	Describe personal and jobsite safety rules and regulations that maintain safe and healthy work environments.	
02.02	Explain emergency procedures to follow in response to workplace accidents.	
02.03	Demonstrate awareness and practice the institutions disaster and/or emergency response plan.	
03.0	Employ safe, sanitary and efficient work practices. – The student will be able to:	
03.01	Using standard precautions, identify decontamination procedures to insure the safety of the client and student in the classroom and laboratory.	
03.02	Set-up and operate equipment and utilize materials by mixing chemicals (EPA approved and hospital strength levels) in appropriate proportions according to manufacturer’s instructions.	
03.03	Clean and maintain implements by using appropriately mixed chemicals and following the procedures for decontamination of tools per Chapter 61G5.002 (2), F.A.C.	
03.04	Apply teamwork procedures and social skills in following the rules for professional ethics and demonstrate a cultural awareness of hygiene and socialized differences by using active listening skills.	
03.05	Describe, observe, identify and analyze the functions, structures, and diseases and disorders of scalp and skin.	
03.06	Demonstrate and communicate to the client the proper care of scalp and skin through cleanliness, nutrition, and healthful living.	
04.0	Demonstrate science knowledge and skills. – The students will be able to:	
04.01	Understand and identify chemistry as it applies to products used in the salon.	
04.02	Understand and identify science as it applies to anatomy and physiology.	
04.03	Understand and identify science as it applies to electricity and light therapy to perform appropriate treatment.	

05.0	Explain the importance of employability skill and entrepreneurship skills. – The students will be able to:	
05.01	Identify and demonstrate positive work behaviors needed to be employable.	
05.02	Develop personal career plan that includes goals, objectives, and strategies.	
05.03	Identify and exhibit traits for retaining employment.	
05.04	Research the benefits of ongoing professional development.	
05.05	List the advantages and disadvantages of business ownership.	
06.0	Demonstrate leadership and teamwork skills needed to accomplish team goals and objectives. – The students will be able to:	
06.01	Establish and maintain effective working relationships with others in order to accomplish objectives and tasks.	
06.02	Employ mentoring skills to inspire and teach others.	
06.03	Apply teamwork procedures and social skills in following rules of professional ethics.	
07.0	Demonstrate personal money-management concepts, procedures, and strategies. – The students will be able to:	
07.01	Develop a personal budget and/or financial goals.	
07.02	Maintain financial records.	
07.03	Research, compare and contrast investment opportunities.	
08.0	Describe the importance of professional ethics and legal responsibilities. – The students will be able to:	
08.01	Demonstrate working knowledge of Florida Law, Chapter 477.	
08.02	Demonstrate knowledge of the Florida “Right- to-know” Law, Chapter 442.	
08.03	Evaluate and justify decisions based on ethical reasoning.	
08.04	Evaluate alternative responses to workplace situations based on personal, professional, ethical, legal responsibilities, and employer policies.	
08.05	Identify and explain personal and long-term consequences of unethical or illegal behaviors in the workplace.	
08.06	Interpret and explain written organizational policies and procedures.	
09.0	Use information technology tools. – The students will be able to:	
09.01	Use personal information management (PIM) applications to increase workplace efficiency.	
09.02	Demonstrate the use of current technology such as computers, electronic devices, scheduling and payment processing.	
10.0	Solve problems using critical thinking skills, creativity and innovation. – The students will be able to:	
10.01	Demonstrate critical thinking skills independently and in teams to solve problems and make decisions.	
10.02	Demonstrate critical thinking and interpersonal skills to resolve conflicts.	
10.03	Identify and document workplace performance goals and monitor progress toward those goals.	
10.04	Conduct technical research to gather information necessary for decision-making.	
11.0	Use oral and written communication skills in creating, expressing and interpreting information and ideas. – The students will be able to:	
11.01	Design, develop and deliver formal and informal presentations by possibly using appropriate media to engage and inform diverse audiences.	
11.02	Interpret verbal and nonverbal cues/behaviors that enhance communication.	
11.03	Apply active listening skills to obtain and clarify information.	
12.0	Perform facials, manipulation and related massage, make-up, hair removal, and artificial lash application. Identify the proper chemical to be prescribed using an understanding of the chemistry that affects skin that can be described, measured and predicted. Demonstrate proper procedure and application of chemicals. – The student will be able to:	
12.01	Choose and assemble the appropriate supplies, products, and equipment based on skin analysis and client consultation.	
12.02	Demonstrate knowledge of action and reaction of chemical products used for the facial treatment.	
12.03	Demonstrate knowledge of available treatments including manual extractions and chemical products associated with each treatment and use problem solving skills in selecting the appropriate chemicals and equipment to meet the needs of the client.	
12.04	Demonstrate ability and knowledge to correctly treat the face, neck and décolleté using product knowledge of reactions to chemicals on the different skin types and conditions.	
12.05	Demonstrate working knowledge of chemicals used for lash and eyebrow tinting and the adverse reactions that may occur, as per manufactures directions.	
12.06	Demonstrate proper procedure for applying artificial eyelashes with a working knowledge of the chemicals and adverse reactions that may occur.	
12.07	Shape eyebrows by tweezing, waxing, threading and sugaring incorporating bone structure, appropriate angles and procedures for hair removal to meet the client's needs.	
12.08	Identify bone structure, face shapes, and fashion trends to fulfill client's needs and desires. Communicate the needs of the client by making appropriate adjustment in language use in work situations demonstrating sensitivity to gender and cultural bias. Use active listening to communicate with the client an understanding of factors that influence the determination of strategies necessary to meet individual client needs.	
12.09	Perform a color analysis and determine ideal facial shape.	
12.10	Apply basic, corrective, evening and/or glamour make-up based on client's needs and desires, using proper safety procedures and appropriate application procedures and products and utilizing knowledge of color theory and chemical reactions to the skin before application.	

Additional Information

Laboratory Activities

Laboratory investigations that include scientific inquiry, research, measurement, problem solving, emerging technologies, tools and equipment, as well as, experimental, quality, and safety procedures are an integral part of this career and technical program/course. Laboratory investigations benefit all students by developing an understanding of the complexity and ambiguity of empirical work, as well as the skills required to manage, operate, calibrate and troubleshoot equipment/tools used to make observations. Students understand measurement error; and have the skills to aggregate, interpret, and present the resulting data. Equipment and supplies should be provided to enhance hands-on experiences for students

Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO)

SkillsUSA, Inc. is the appropriate career and technical student organization for providing leadership training and reinforcing specific career and technical skills. Career and Technical Student Organizations provide activities for students as an integral part of the instruction offered.

Cooperative Training – OJT

On-the-job training is appropriate but not required for this program. Whenever offered, the rules, guidelines, and requirements specified in the OJT framework apply.

Accommodations

Federal and state legislation requires the provision of accommodations for students with disabilities to meet individual needs and ensure equal access. Postsecondary students with disabilities must self-identify, present documentation, request accommodations if needed, and develop a plan with their counselor and/or instructors. Accommodations received in postsecondary education may differ from those received in secondary education. Accommodations change the way the student is instructed. Students with disabilities may need accommodations in such areas as instructional methods and materials, assignments and assessments, time demands and schedules, learning environment, assistive technology and special communication systems. Documentation of the accommodations requested and provided should be maintained in a confidential file.

Note: postsecondary curriculum and regulated secondary programs cannot be modified.

Additional Resources

For additional information regarding articulation agreements, Bright Futures Scholarships, Fine Arts/Practical Arts Credit and Equivalent Mathematics and Equally Rigorous Science Courses please refer to:
http://www.fldoe.org/academics/career-adult-edu/career-tech-edu/program-resources.stml