Food and Nutrition Education in Communities: Campus Project
Nutrition Education Curriculum
Use the Program Design and Delivery criteria cited within the Colorado State University Best Practices in Nutrition Education for Low-Income Audiences to review three curricula for children and/or their families.
Discuss required or recommended Educator Characteristics, Training, and Evaluation practices associated with each curriculum you review.
Discuss elements of each curriculum that make it appropriate - or not appropriate - for the unique needs of low-income audiences.
Include recommendations if appropriate on adaptations that might make the curriculum more well-received and/or effective among targeted low-income audiences.
Comment on how well the curriculum addresses the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, choosemyplate.gov recommendations, or the Cornell Behavioral Goals to Prevent Childhood Obesity.
Select which one of the three curricula you would prefer to teach. Justify your choice.
A curriculum is defined as a series of learning opportunities. One-shot learning experiences such as handing out recipes at a health fair should not be considered a nutrition education curriculum.
Use the following websites, national programs, or organizations (all links open in a new window) to find curriculum packages that they support, but be certain to discuss the curriculum they provide rather than the program or organization itself. You may select ONE (of three) nutrition education curriculum from another source - after seeking instructor approval.
SNAP-Ed Connection
Food and Nutrition Education in Communities
The Campus Kitchens Project
USDA National Agricultural Library
SPARK
State Departments of Education
National and state Dairy Councils
Cooperative Extension Services in all states
CATCH Kids Club (Coordinated Approach To Child Health)
Children's Museum of Manhattan
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Nutrition Education Curriculum
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Nutrition Education Curriculum
The three curricula for children and /or their families.
According to Colorado State University Best Practices in Nutrition Education for Low-Income Audiences, a curriculum is defined as a series of learning opportunities. The most suitable curricula for children from low-income set-up include content areas, Goal setting and lastly theoretical basis. Content areas mainly focus on accurate nutrition content as well as current information related to physical activity, food resource management, eating behaviors, food safety, and parent/child feeding relationship. Similarly, Goal setting curriculum includes participant behavior change goal setting. Finally, theoretical basis curriculum is focused on behavior change theories which are mainly used for the content and target audience. These theories may address knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors like cognitive and affective behaviors.
Discuss required or recommended Educator Characteristic, Training and Evaluation practices associated with the curriculum you review.
For the purpose of professional and successful implementation of the above curricula, Educators in charge of the learning opportunities are supposed to have the following characteristics, Training and evaluation practices. In regards to the characteristics, the educators should have the ability to relate well to the target audience. Creating a good rapport with the audience will enable the educators in charge of the curricula to gather relevant current information related to physical activity, eating behaviors and parent/child feeding relationship. Similarly, the educators should have expertise in content prior to delivering the intervention to the children and their families (Wolfe & Crosiar, 2010). Meanwhile, initial training is important for successful curricula delivery. The training accommodates visual auditory and hands-on learning styles as well as providing an opportunity to learn content and cultural diversity and sensitivity. Finally, the use of formative evaluation in the development of the intervention is inevitable in successful curricula delivery.
Discuss elements of each curriculum that make it appropriate or not appropriate for the unique needs of low-income audiences
The low-income aud...