Third Grade Health Literacy Classroom

My goal in the area of health is to prevent the spread of illness, keep the environment as clean as possible, and follow sound nutrition and fitness policies to help children and families live a healthy lifestyle. In group care, it can sometimes be hard to control the spread of germs and disease, so I follow proper hand washing, sanitation, diapering, and food preparation guidelines at all times. I also follow my center’s sick policy by informing families about communicable diseases, observing children closely, and sending sick children home right away. I also prepare my snack menu carefully by following the food pyramid, ensuring at least two food groups, and strictly limiting processed and sugary foods. I am also proactive about health in fitness in my classroom, as I teach children about making good choices and how to lead a fun and active lifestyle. We have sports, creative movement or outdoor play several times each day to stay active. We also inform families of our health and fitness goals so they can support the goal of a healthy active lifestyle.

The manual provides teachers with information on what content should be taught. The middle school book contains four broad units on physical health, mental health, social health and spiritual health with descriptive daily lesson plans. The high school book has many more units ranging from first aid to sleep cycles to substance abuse. Although there are more lesson units the lesson plans are not as in-depth. The high school book contains goals for each unit, resources, lesson plans, back up lesson plans, information on how to handle sex education and many other helpful suggestions and information. The middle school book gives teachers information on how to teach lessons and which lessons

In this unit I am going to explain three different approaches to promoting Health Education the three approaches I am going to explain are Mass Media, Community development and Two way Communication.

I really enjoyed reading your post. This is a good example of how poor health literacy can have a detrimental effect on a patient’s health. In a journal article the authors stated that health literacy is a strong predictor of a person’s health status (Schwatz et al., 2013). As seen in the AMA video and in the example that given here, it is clear that health literacy has a direct effect on one’s ability to make important healthcare decisions. Your example also reminds me that fear may play a big role in health literacy and one’s ability to make healthcare decisions. Making healthcare decision for yourself at time can be a daunting task no matter the culture, level or education, of background. It is so important that providers consider

In the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report in 2006, Preventing Medication Error, more than 1/3 of the 1.5 million adverse drug events that were recorded in the United States each year occurred in an outpatient setting. Likewise, in 2008 IOM released a report that laid emphases on the need for setting universal standards within prescribing and dispensing practices. Multiple studies reported that an increased prevalence of patient adherence to taking prescribed medications can be compromised by their inability to comprehend or understand the directions for taking the medication (Wolf et al., 2016). The inability to understand and interpret prescription drug labels were recognized as the leading cause of a large proportion of outpatient medication error and adverse events, as patients may possibly accidentally misuse a prescribed

My observation was in Mr. Chad Hebert’s health class at Oak Park middle school. The school is located down Oak Park Boulevard in Lake Charles Louisiana. The school consist of grades sixth through eighth grades. The classroom I observed was a regular classroom with inclusion students. The diversity of the students within the class consisted of all African American students and one student that was Puerto Rican. The teacher was a Caucasian male. The office consisted of African American faculty. When passing other children and teachers in school I noticed the majority was African American. There were eight males and seven females in the classroom that I observed. The children were not assigned any particular seats in the classroom. The girls seemed to sit together and boys sat in different seats each time I was in the classroom. The girls were always more involved in answering questions or with class discussions.

Within English 219, we have already learned a vital set of writing skills, that will allow for the improvement of essays, and summaries that must be written for future assessments. Some of these skills that would be relevant for achieving general writing improvement could be ideas such as thesis development, structuring and planning, or more specific examples when actually fleshing out the essay such as elements of grammar and style. Thesis development which is crucial so that ideas can be fully explained and related back to a point which can be interpreted as an overarching theme for the entire paper, and allows the reader to interpret the topic of not only the essay but of each paragraph. Taking a step back we looked in class at the subject

Implementing sophisticated vocab will also fix one of the paper's biggest issues. Approximately sixty-three out of eighty-three lines contain a variation of the verb "to be. " Replacing these, mostly the word "is," will improve the essay tremendously. Some sentences may only require switching the order of words, but others will need a new verb to replace them. Unique verbs will engage the reader and reduce awkward wording such as, "is because that is precisely what it is.

In this assignment I will be explaining three different approaches to health education. I will also be giving examples of each approach being used and lastly I will also be explaining the role of the health educators in these approaches. The three approaches I will be talking about are as follows; social marketing approach, two way communication and community development approach.

The concept of health literacy was first originated in early years and it was recognised as an autonomous research field in 1990s (Andrew pleasant and Shyama Kuruvilla, 2008). The

Health literacy is both a consumer and public healthcare issue. As a health care provider, it is not only my responsibility to ensure that you understand your health and what is going on

This health instructional plan has been developed from the Michigan’s Health Education Grade Level Content Expectations for second grade. The major strands and other standards will be addressed throughout the year to ensure that students are effectively taught about health issues. Nutrition and Physical Activity, Social and Emotional Health, Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs and Safety. This health education instructional plan relates to the students’ growth because it addresses health issues with age appropriate topics and materials. Students will learn the importance of eating a nutritious and balanced meal. They will also learn how to demonstrate safety. Also, emotional health is addressed. In Teaching Today’s Health, it states, “The concept that emotionally healthy people are in touch with their feelings and can express those feelings in a proper fashion” (Anspaugh & Ezell, 2004). Teaching emotional health helps students develop sound mental health. Drug awareness is addressed so that students understand the impact they have on lives and the body. Advocacy and goal setting are addressed so that students know that their actions and decisions affect their heath and the health of others.

I was unable to make any trips out of town during this class due to the work load from my job and this class. However, the website I joined had proved to be very useful for learning more about different cultures worldwide. I had befriended an author called Aleksandr from Russia who asked me to beta read his work before publishing them. He had learned to write in English by reading fanfiction from a TV show he watched and now wanted to share his own writing. In his writing he left articles out of his sentences or worded things oddly. One example was when Aleksandr was describing a cat he used the phrase ‘brown big cat’ I changed it to ‘big brown cat’ when he asked me why I changed it I struggled to explain the order of the wording felt wrong. Another example was when one character was telling another to get into the car Aleksandr wording was ‘get into car’ I changed it to “get into the car’. I was unsure at first if Aleksandr grasp of the English langue needed worked on. Turns out this is how he was taught to write in Russian and was trying to mimic it in English. He and I were both surprised by the grammar difference our cultural

As parents, we must make many decisions when it comes to our children, like what brand of formula is the best or what brand of diaper to use. One of the biggest decisions to make, is whether to vaccinate your child or not. Nothing is more heart breaking than a young life that has been taken by the infection of a killer disease. Children are much more vulnerable to disease because of their weak immune systems. They are weak because they haven’t lived long enough to build up immunities. Going into the medical field, one of the duties would be administering and the education of vaccines. To explain to parents what the vaccine is for and how to protect their children from sickness and disease.

Learning a whole new language and culture halfway through fifth grade was torturous as a child just beginning to start the puberty stage. Parents and teachers shifted from a friend to the enemy. Not understanding the intentions of my parents and English As a Second Language teachers by giving me workbooks for second and third graders, I, at the time, felt like they were just trying to keep me behind the other regular English students. However, those frustrations were never conveyed since communicating with other students, and especially faculty members, seemed even more arduous. Thus, my vocabulary range is not as wide as most other people that speaks English as their first language. This can be shown in the first paper I have written titled “Faster or Stronger” for the course “Eng&101 English Composition I” instructed by Martha J. Nagel. In this paper, there was a lot of repetition by using the same words multiple times throughout the essay to emphasize the thesis (Wangadi). This type of repetition can cause readers to become disinterested in the paper because even though it makes it easier for the reader to understand the argument, the lack of variety in the choice of words makes the paper seem dull and too predictable. In the most recent paper however, there were more variety in the vocabulary to still emphasize the thesis as well. Instead of saying “biggest victims” repeatedly, “main victims” and “leading victims” were used to create a variety that would still preserve