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Identify factors involved in the growth and development of hair that provide the variety of different hair types.
Assessment Strategies
by completing activities as assigned by your instructor.
by creating and assessing a poster of a hair or scalp condition.
by taking a test/exam.
Criteria
You use terminology when identifying structures and properties of the hair.
You identify the structure beneath the skin's surface: follicle, bulb, papilla, arrector pili, and sebaceous gland.
You describe the properties of each structure beneath the skin's surface.
You identify the stages in the keratinization process.
You identify the keratinized hair structures above the skin's surface: shaft = cuticle, cortex, medulla.
You identify the stages in the life cycle of hair as anagen, catagen, and telogen.
You determine how the structure of the hair relates to how the hair reacts to services and products.
You identify the development process for straight, wavy, and curly hair.
You differentiate between the types of melanin; eumelanin and pheomelanin, and their affects on natural hair color.
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Build the chemical structure of hair from the simplest form of matter to the protein chains that form hair.
Assessment Strategies
by completing activities as assigned by your instructor.
by creating and assessing a poster of a hair or scalp condition.
by taking a test/exam.
Criteria
You identify different forms of matter used in the salon.
You identify physical and chemical changes in forms of matter that relate to the industry.
You identify formation of hair in it's simplest form of atoms, elements, and molecules.
You identify formation of hair including all the subfibers and bonds that form hair.
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Analyze and evaluate the hair and scalp.
Assessment Strategies
by completing activities as assigned by your instructor.
by creating and assessing a poster of a hair or scalp condition.
by taking a test/exam.
Criteria
You use terminology relating to the hair during analysis and evaluation.
You analyze hair to determine fine, medium, or coarse texture.
You identify degrees of porosity.
You identify whether the hair is of normal elasticity.
You look for common hair conditions in Your analysis.
You document Your analysis.
Scalp condition poster includes a minimum of two pictures.
Scalp condition poster includes an explanation of the symptoms of the condition.
Scalp condition poster includes an explanation of the recommended treatment for the condition.
You relate hair loss to personal experiences.
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Differentiate among types of organisms (bacteria, viruses and parasites) and the spread of disease in a salon environment.
Assessment Strategies
by completing activities as assigned by your instructor.
by taking a test/exam.
by completing a salon inspection and improvement plan.
Criteria
You classify pathogenic bacteria and their related diseases.
You demonstrate ways to protect against the spread of viral infections.
You identify the established plan for possible exposure to blood or bodily fluids.
You specify common means of spreading infection.
You identify environments within the salon that prohibit bacterial growth.
Salon inspection/improvement plan specifies areas in compliance with bacteriology concepts within the salon.
Salon inspection/improvement plan specifies areas pertaining to bacteriology that are in need of improvement within the salon.
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Apply infection control procedures to prevent the spread of disease.
Assessment Strategies
by completing activities as assigned by your instructor.
by taking a test/exam.
by completing a salon inspection and improvement plan.
Criteria
You specify steps that will prevent or control infection.
Salon inspection/improvement plan describes areas in compliance with infection control procedures within the salon.
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Apply safety and first aid methods in a salon setting.
Assessment Strategies
by taking a test/exam.
by creating a salon inspection/improvement plan.
by completing activities as assigned by your instructor.
Criteria
You identify steps in first aid procedures.
Salon inspection/improvement plan includes areas of first aid and safety.
Salon inspection/improvement plan includes a plan to improve the points not in compliance with standards.