Weaving Nutrition Education into Teacher’s Instructional Planning

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Instructional Planning

• Weaving Nutrition Education into Teachers
  Instructional Planning

Presented by Valerie Parsons, M.A., M.Ed. And
Lizett Olivares, R.D.
Monrovia Unified School District
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The changes in todays classroom
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Single Subject

• Teachers work in a bubble in charge of their
  own planning, teaching, and evaluation.
• Interdisciplinary or thematic instruction is
  possible. However, it tends to be infrequent and
  considered extra to the regular curriculum.
• Tested subjects are the focus October May and
  other subjects (Art, Music, Nutrition, etc.)
  are the focus in June and September.

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Single Subject Lesson Examples

• Dairy Council Lessons
• The Childrens Power Play Campaign
• Harvest of the Month (HOTM)
• Monrovias Cooking-in-the Classroom Lessons
• The Daily Nibble
• And many others

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Ideal vs. Reality

• Reality-- Just as health standards came out,
  budget cuts started to happen.
• The ideal is to teach nutrition as a single
  subject.
• In todays circumstances, integration seems to be
  the most effective way to ensure nutrition
  education is taught.
• Integration teaches nutrition through core
  subjects.
• Single-Subject Nutrition Education is fairly easy
  for teachers if they can find the time.
• Integration is challenging and is where the focus
  of Professional Development can developed.

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Continuum of Integration
Messaging Interdisciplinary
Integrated Adapted from Brazee
Capelluti (1995), Dissolving Boundaries Toward
an Integrative Curriculum.
Single Subject Nutrition Education?
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Nutrition Messaging
Level 1

• Nutrition messages are consistently incorporated
  into core curriculum.
• These messages are not skills-based.
• These messages may or may not meet Health
  Standard 1 Essential Concepts.
• The goal is to send consistent nutrition messages
  throughout the school year
• Begins to build a healthy culture.

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Improving the School Culture

• Begins with collective conversations that create
  shared understandings.
• This dialogue is a reflective learning process in
  which group members seek to understand each
  others viewpoints and deeply held assumptions.
• Dialogue leads to collective meaning and these
  shared understandings become the basis of shared
  missions, visions, values, and goals.
• Garmston Wellman, The Adaptive School

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How can you make this lesson Level 1?

• Core Standards Integrated
• Math Problem solving and algebra (mean, median,
  mode)
• Science Experimentation/process skills of
  observing, measuring, hypothesis, predicting,
  etc.
• Writing Introductory paragraphs
• Technology skills

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Life Savers Excel Spreadsheet Project

• Which flavor of Life Savers candy will last the
  longest?
• The entire 4th grade at John F. Pattie Elementary
  School ate Life Savers for 2 months to find out!
• The experiment involved eating Life Savers while
  being timed, graphing the data in Microsoft
  Excel, and then publishing their results.

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Sean Kellyns Lifesaver Graphs   

• Hi , I'm Sean and this is Kellyn. I like
  Legos, K'nex, video games, and soccer. Kellyn
  likes soccer, to collect dolls, basketball and
  writing. We are doing a lifesaver test to see how
  long a lifesaver takes to melt in our mouths.
  After it melted in our mouths we recorded it and
  put it in graphs on the computer. Red lasted the
  longest in our mouths. We hope you liked our
  graphs.

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Reflection on Messaging

• Do you think using Life Saver candy made students
  want to eat them more?
• How could you make this lesson have a healthy
  nutrition message?
• Do you think your teachers are consistently
  incorporating nutrition messages into the school
  day?

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Continuum of Integration
Messaging Interdisciplinary
Integrated Adapted from Brazee
Capelluti (1995), Dissolving Boundaries Toward
an Integrative Curriculum.
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Interdisciplinary
Level 2

• Most common approach to integration.
• It includes one health standard (2-8) integrated
  with one core standard
• Often, integration occurs through a major event
  or unit.
• A grade level might create a Math Night with a
  nutrition component.
• A nutrition theme-based unit with nutrition
  integrating one subject area.
• Multiple subjects may contribute but through a
  parallel approach.
• At first, it may still seem to be an add-on,
  but eventually is seen as a way to make core
  curriculum more meaningful.

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Interdisciplinary Level 2
Describe one or two ways interdisciplinary
integration is different than messaging.
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Data Snacks Lesson

• Read over the Data Snacks lesson.
• As a group, rate its effectiveness as a
  nutrition education lesson on a scale of 1 to 5.

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Interdisciplinary Integration

• As a group, choose one Health Standard to focus
  on in this lesson and then develop a nutrition
  education activity.
• A few tables will share their ideas.

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Continuum of Integration
Messaging Interdisciplinary
Integrated Adapted from Brazee
Capelluti (1995), Dissolving Boundaries Toward
an Integrative Curriculum.
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Working Towards Full Integration

• Level 3 is a process and can always be improved
  by integrating more core subjects.
• Cooperative planning between teachers
• Requires effective instruction to be successful.
• Use effective teachers to model for others.

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Full Integration
Level 3

• Take a step beyond the previous level by
  incorporating a Health Standard, Nutrition
  Competency, HOTM and a Nutrition Message into
  more than one content area.
• All Health Standards are addressed at some point
  during the year.
• Cooperative planning between teachers is a must
  to make this approach to curriculum powerful and
  practical.
• No artificial division of knowledge into the
  subject areas.
• Here, integration is not an add-on to the
  regular curriculum instead nutrition education is
  the vehicle in which to teach core subjects.

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Think-Pair-Share

• Think What level of nutrition education do you
  think a majority of your teachers are at?
• Pair Share the level of your teachers.
• Share Wait for the signal and by a show of
  hands, indicate what level your teachers are at.

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Keeping the message consistent

• How do we remind teachers to incorporate
  nutrition messages throughout the entire year?

Pacing Guides!
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Components of Lesson Design
Instruction
Curriculum
Standards
Assessment
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Alignment
Pacing
Instruction
Curriculum
Standards
Assessment
Mapping
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What is Curriculum Alignment?

• Curriculum alignment refers to the process of
  interpreting standards, then developing learning
  objectives that are directly targeted to the
  standards.

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What are Pacing Guides?

• A planning tool that helps teachers chart the
  timing of their instruction so that all tested
  topics are taught prior to the administration of
  the state test.

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Diving Deeper into Pacing Guides

• There is no single format for a pacing guide.
• Usually involves multiple levels of
  collaboration.
• Textbooks often have pacing guides.
• Other names

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HOTM Rotation for 2010-2011 School Year Used for
development of HOTM Support Materials Compiled by
Southern California
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Scan and insert HOTM Overview
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A Pacing Guide is an outline of
the Intended curriculum
Curriculum Mapping is an outline of
the Implemented curriculum
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Physical Activity Break
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Nutrition Integration Flow Map
Find a Content Standard to Integrate.
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Application

• Each table will be assigned 1 of the 8 Health
  Standards (CHECS).
• Become familiar with the Nutrition Competencies
  in 4th grade for your assigned Health Standard.
• As a group, design a lesson that integrates (20
  minutes)
• HOTM
• Assigned CHECS
• Correlating Nutrition Competency
• One Core Standard (Focus on March, April and May)
• Using chart paper to highlight the integrated
  components, each group will have 1 minute to
  present their lesson idea.
• During the presentations, take notes! By the
  end, you will have all 8 Health Standards
  integrated into the 4th grade Core Standards!

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Action Steps to Implementation

• Determine what level your district is at now.
• What level will you strive towards next?
• Use your completed 4th grade Pacing Guide as an
  example for teachers, curriculum coordinators and
  other partners
• Nutrition Educators can use it to remind teachers
  of how to integrate specific health standards on
  a monthly basis.

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HOW????

• How do we get teachers to incorporate nutrition
  education into their pacing guides?

Its all about the Process!
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Integrating Nutrition into Pacing Guides

• Getting Started
• Year One
• Year Two
• Year Three

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In Closing.

• Questions
• Comments
• Review

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At a Glance

• Summer Institute is a four day workshop that
  provides resources, training, and technical
  assistance to teachers in order to enhance the
  quality of nutrition education they provide in
  their classrooms and beyond

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Planning Teacher Trainings

• Consider year long approach
• Assess your teachers
• Be selective about the timing of your trainings
• Less is more
• Determine follow-up plan and timeline

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Planning Summer Institute

• Considered revising the MUSD Pacing Guides with
  CHECS
• Decided to narrow our focus to 2-3 CHECS and
  model them effectively
• Allowed teachers time to reflect, plan, and
  deliver
• Group teacher presentations

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Day One
Guest Speaker Dipa Shaw Patel
Monrovia USD Teachers Prek -8 grade
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Day One cont...
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Day Two
Healthy Halloween Celebrations
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Day Two cont
A Closer Look at CHECS
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Effective Modeling

• Few teachers have the opportunity to observe
  other teachers in action.
• It is crucial to demonstrate nutrition education
  activities in order for teachers to deliver
  lessons effectively.
• Avoid handing curriculum, resources, etc. to
  teachers without coaching them with what you
  envision.

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HOTM Resources
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Pumpkin HOTM Lesson

• Refer to your MUSD Nutrition education flow map
  on Pumpkins.
• HOTM Tasting Trio DEMO.
• 15-20 minutes max
• Concise
• Integrated
• realistic resources
• FUN!!

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Day Three Highlights

• Rethink Your Drink
• Teachers view modeling of the four lesson tool
  kit provided by LA Collab.
• Math concepts will be integrated with all lessons
  for lower and upper grades
• Pacing Guide Revisions
• Teachers will work in grade-level groups to
  revise pacing guides to incorporate CHECS and
  nutrition focused-activities

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Pacing Guides-all grade levels

• Each table will represent a different grade
  level.
• Using your Flow Map, start with choosing one
  Health Standard and follow the steps until you
  have completed all the steps in the map.
• Repeat the process until you have integrated all
  8 health standards into the pacing guide or until
  time runs out. (10 min.)
• Using chart paper, describe one activity you
  created. You will have 1 minute to present your
  activity and what Health Standard, Content
  Standard and Monthly Nutrition Education Topic it
  integrates with.

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Day Four Highlights

• Teacher reflections
• Teachers will reflect on what they learn
• Develop a grade-level plan on how they will
  integrate nutrition in the classroom
• Teacher Presentations
• 10 minute presentations for each grade level
• Wrap-up

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Day Four Presentations
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In Summary

• You can control the size and time allotted for
  your teacher trainings
• Find key teachers using administrative leaders
• Assess where your teachers are and set a goal
• Start by grade level, school, subject
• Use Network allowable curriculum as resources to
  guide your teachers when planning integration

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Now its your turn!

• Divide the back of a paper in half.
• Left side 2-3 CHECS you feel comfortable with
  understand
• Right side Nutrition ed. topics related to
  standard.
• Choose one idea to share with a shoulder partner.
• Together, troubleshoot
• Date, place, resources needed, and amount of time
  allotted for training.

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