Workshop proceedings in Fresno, California, concerning the development of the Management Approach to Teaching Consumer and Homemaking Education (MATCHE), a preservice home economics teacher education curriculum design, are presented in this report. Presentations from the workshop include unique and timely competency-based individualized instruction programs; validation techniques for curriculum development; philosophy of three strands of MATCHE; and strategies of teaching and evaluating for individualized programs. Also in this section are group presentations concerning the subject areas of MATCHE learning modules: Core: consumer approach; life-styles and the consumer; community consumer resources; housing; and human development. Appended are the program of workshop activities, why MATCHE is needed now, how it can be used, content validity of MATCHE modules (in the form of a workshop-participant questionnaire), learning activities in consumer education for MATCHE students, a rating device for participation as a group-activity member, a schedule of events for the MATCHE II seminar, and lists of participants at seminars in San Francisco, Long Beach, and Fresno. (Other area workshop proceedings [CE 019 896 and CE 019 898-899] are also available, along with the resulting learning modules [CE 019 901-967] and strategies for tying MATCHE to FHA-HERO [CE 019 900].) (CT)