Engaging and Effective Teacher Training

1
Engaging and Effective Teacher Training

• CSBAs 2007 School Wellness Conference
• Anaheim, California

Presented by
Robin Sinks, Health Curriculum Leader Carisa
Ishimaru, RD Janis Price, CHES
2
Session Objectives

• Participants will be able to
• 1. describe a large, urban districts efforts
  to provide effective teacher training focused
  on nutrition education
• 2. identify strategies to engage teachers in
  that training
• 3. identify resources utilized in those teacher
  trainings
• 4. describe efforts to evaluate the
  effectiveness of those teacher trainings

3
What is Meaningful Professional Development?

• Reflects best practices and most recent research
• Driven by long term action plan
• Sequentially planned (Tier I, Tier II, etc.)
• Reflection
• Evaluation
• Teachers are not finished products!

4
Format of Teacher Workshops

• Provided by a Teacher and Registered Dietitian
  team
• Presented at school sites to train a critical
  mass
• Frequent active participation
• Addressing different learner modalities
• Connects nutrition education to several content
  areas
• Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Science,
  Physical Education
• Workshops build upon each other in a tiered
  format

5
Nutrition Literacy
Cooking in the Classroom
Tier II
Tier I
6
Tier I

• Nutrition 101
• MyPyramid
• Integrating nutrition into core content areas
• Nutrition Strategies Handout
• How to Teach Nutrition To Kids
• How to Teach Nutrition To Kids Leader/Activity
  Guide
• Resources

7
Tier II

• Builds upon Tier I
• Lessons follow researched based lesson design
• -anticipatory set, objective, input/model,
  guided practice, checking for understanding,
  closure and independent practice
• Correlates with Open Court Reading program
• Stations Linking Nutrition Education using
• -literature books, grade specific nutrition
  activity and resources
• -DCC, Power play!, MyPyramid.gov
• Reflection and application
• -Nutrition Gallery Walk Handout

8
Tier II Lessons
9
Cooking in the Classroom

• Linking nutrition education to cooking in the
  classroom
• Food Safety and Sanitation review
• Curriculum Integration
• -Thematic Unit Activity
• Hands on cooking activities linked to literature
  books
• Resources

10
(No Transcript)
11
Workshop Evaluation
12
Implementation Follow Up Form
3 months POST workshop
13
Activities

• Provide a variety of modalities for different
  learning styles
• Use a Lead Teacher Sheet
• Include all materials for lesson in a large bag
• Teachers do the activity as a group and
  participate in hands-on learning
• Provide example closure to activity where teacher
  reflect on lesson
• How would you modify this lesson?

14
Resources

• Team Nutrition
• http//teamnutrition.usda.gov/resources/mypyramidc
  lassroom.html
• The Network for a Healthy California, Children's
  Power Play! Campaign
• http//www.dhs.ca.gov/cdic/cpns/powerplay/default.
  htm
• California Healthy Kids Resource Center
• http//www.hkresources.org
• Dairy Council of California
• www.dairycouncilofca.org

15
Contact Information
Long Beach Unified School District Health and
Physical Education Office [phone]
16
Nutrition Gallery Walk
17
Connie Evers, MS, RD
18
Health Education Library