Student Service Delivery Model

As a teacher, you have the opportunity to share the knowledge you have gained in this course with your colleagues to support a collaborative approach to shared health, nutrition, and safety goals. For your Final Project, you will create a presentation for other educators in your center that is focused on the development of a program valuing health, nutrition, and safety.

“The physical and emotional health of an entire generation and the economic health and security of our nation is at stake” a quote made by the First Lady, Michelle Obama, as she launches her comprehensive initiative to change the way children think about nutrition and physical fitness (“Learn the Facts,” 2010). Three decades ago, children lived active lives that kept them healthier. They walked to and from school, ate home cooked, reasonable portion meals with vegetables and played outdoors most of the time. Today, children ride the bus instead of walk, eat more fast food and snacks throughout the day because parents are busier, and watch more television or play video games rather than be active outside with peers (“Learn the Facts,” 2010). Young children are becoming overweight and obese along with being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes more frequently. They are making poor dietary choices, inadequate physical activity, and spending too much screen time all contributing to the obesity crisis. One of the effective solutions to reversing the trend of childhood obesity is to provide safe, affordable and accessible after-school health and physical fitness educational programs for all school ages across the nation.

The contributing factors for this problem would include lack of trained staff members, repetitive exercises, and lack of individualized exercise programs for each patient. It is essentials for the facility to have properly trained staff members to be able to instruct the clients through the exercises. The exercises that the facility provides are mundane, repetitive, and uninteresting. The exercises New Community offers include an exercise video they play a few times a week for a selected group of client. There is only a select group of clients because most clients who have the capacity to participate, refuse to. Many of the parent are not cognitively aware or physically able to participate in the exercise program they offer, it would be essential to design programs that would suit each client separately. Therefore, separate groups can be created based off of the cognitive awareness and physically capability for each

“Center for Youth Fitness.” – Valley Health System. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Aug. 2015. This website describes its facility as a really open and fun environment. It shows a variety of workout equipment which the youth are supervised by. All the staff must acquire a bachelor’s degree or master degree in the field of sports medicine or exercise science. Each student entering the program must complete a safety course before starting the program. Each number will be given to an individualized exercise program to meet their specific goals. Each child will have certain plan to meet healthy diets and how to also be physically active outside of the program. They also provide unique equipment that has games on it, such as virtual

The program is to address the children about obesity and also to the community. Policy can affect these elementary students by giving them better opportunity to have healthy ways rather than having more risk of getting obesity. People can modify the various risk factors into protective factors by having a change in policy. School board in Oakland can change their policy about physical activity by including P.E. classes, intramural sports for students to attend so that they can be physically active. Even outside of school, some children have little or no access to a place where they can be active. The community can petition for more parks around the neighborhood, where the city hall can produce a policy leading to creation of parks and protecting

Mrs. Connie Dacus is a professor in the Health and Physical Education Department at the Alabama State University (ASU) in Montgomery, Alabama. She has been employed at the Alabama State University for nine years and she started her career in August of 2007. Professor Dacus is an alumna of the Alabama State University and she has earned her bachelor’s degree and her master’s degree in Health and Physical Education. Professor Dacus holds many positions in the Health and Physical Education Department. Professor Dacus is an instructor at the Alabama State University, where she teaches a fitness and wellness course, along with an exercise science course, and she also supervises students who are interning for the school year. Her primary job responsibilities include preparing lectures for classes, grading class assignments, preparing and grading exams, and meeting with students outside class who need help with additional problems. Professor Dacus believes that the

NJCCC Standard 2.1 Wellness: All students will acquire health promotion concepts and skills to support a healthy,

This is a Community Teaching Plan Work Proposal group project for the city of San Diego, and our target community is children in elementary school. We have chosen primary health promotion/prevention and will address Childhood Obesity, which falls under the category of Nutrition and Weight Status in Healthy People 2020.

Upon reviewing the community vitality data I came to the conclusion that the health problem that a health education program would be most appropriate to address would be childhood nutritional health and fitness. I came to this conclusion after careful data analysis. Of the county’s adults (18+) 77% ate less than five servings of fruits and vegetables per day, this percentage is so high likely because of attitudes and habits these adults picked up when they were children. The second largest age demographic in the county is children aged 10 to 17 are overweight, six percent more than the state average, 88% of children age 10 to 17 are not meeting daily targets for fruit and vegetable consumption and 30% age 10 to 17 watch 3 or

After school, from 3 to 6 p.m, is a critical period of time in a child’s life. After school programs help keep kids safe and inspire them to learn during that period of time. After school programs are organized programs that youth can participate in outside of a traditional school day. Enrolling children in afterschool programs would provide them with benefits that unenrolled children would not receive, such as reduce risky behavior and promote physical health. After school programs provide a safe environment for children, while positively impacting their academics, safety, and their future.

For the service-learning project I decided to go to the kid’s club “Zuvedra” and during this time I have discovered several new things about myself. I have never thought that at the age of 20 I will behave in the same manner as kids act at the age of 8-10 years. I was playing card game such as Dixit with children of different ages and, after several games, we already knew who and in what way is thinking. In addition, during the project, after two days of practice, I have learned how to play a table football and started to play at the same level as “professionals” with several mouths of experience. I really was not expecting that I will enjoy playing with kids so much. Nonetheless, this became an additional proof that I am open for the new experience. All in all, every time I went there I was enjoying every activity the same way as Buddhists worldview suggests people to value every moment and be happy.

It is really important to me to have strong core for what I believe about teaching physical education and health. I believe that the most important things is that the students is physically active and I also believe that the students should have at least one thing or activity that they interested in that they can do for the rest of their lives in order to ensure that love to be physically active has become part of their lifestyle. Therefore, I would like to have a variety of physical activities, sports and fitness method in my curriculum and I would like my students to develop their skills and increase their knowledge of different skills and activities because it can provide a fun and enjoyable of physical activity, as well as build psychomotor and cognitive. I will try to safely provide the students the enjoyment of physical activity, become more confident with their abilities, increase their knowledge of health related fitness, and help them to find things that they love to do to continuous to be physically active. My philosophy of teaching physical education and health is including content knowledge of what I want to

Two contemporary social problems of interest are transitional housing needs for homeless mothers and domestic violence in the African American community. Fischer (2000) wrote homeless families face the economic and personal challenges of sparse employment opportunities, child care and nutrition needs, compounded by the loss of adequate housing. Those with the greatest risk of being unemployed and of becoming long term welfare dependent are teen mothers (Fischer, 2000). In addition, depression and the loss of self-confidence are direct results of being homeless. Homelessness destroys self-esteem and promotes hopelessness.

Though healthy eating is important I believe much emphasis should also be placed on physical activity. We have become a sedentary society aided by technology and changing times. Whereas children use to ride bikes and play in the parks after school, they now spend most of the time indoors playing video games and watching television. Michelle Obama’s “let’s move “program unveiled in 2010 had four components one of which is “healthier school”. This program advocates integrating existing programs in schools with new resources to provide Support for schools and encourage physical activities and healthy living. It emphasizes the need for collaboration between students, teachers’ administrators and parents for the success of the program. ( Briefing room: The Whitehouse office of the first lady, feb 28 2013.)

Nowadays, more and more children have obesity compare to the children in thirty years ago. The research showed that children who have obesity in their early age may cause either short-term or long-term consequence. The short-term consequence for the obesity children include low self-esteem and the long-term consequence includes asthma and heart disease. (CDC) The best way to prevent these is to encourage children do at least one hour physical exercise a day within the trained instructor guided. ( Epstein 2014) My paper is mainly focused on how my curriculum promote physical development in a child care center.