Community Teaching Work Plan

The goal of the health promotion activity is to educate the audience on healthy eating habits in accordance with the Healthy People 2020 goals. The basic objectives of the community teaching plans are as follows:

Informing the audience on how to limit their energy consumption in their diets through cautious food selection.

Informing the target audience on the benefits of eating fruits and vegetables.

Informing third-grade kids about the importance of limiting their sugar consumption.

Emphasizing the significance of a well-balanced diet and the reasons why junk food should be avoided. The objectives of the teaching program, in line with Alma Ata and HP2020 goals, intended to provide an environment, both physical and social that promotes good health and leads to the prevention of lifestyle diseases amongst the target audience (Raingruber, 2013). Therefore, the behavioral objective that the program intends is to equip the third-grade students with knowledge of how they could shift their preferences to healthy and balanced diet. Such would be realized by enabling them to name healthy food choices and identifying the healthy foods from the food pyramid. The teaching method will use posters that show the comparison tables of the healthy and unhealthy foods to enable the target audience to discern the healthy and unhealthy food choices.

The epidemiological data related to the topic asserts that there is an increase in obesity rates amongst teens. According to data from the center for disease control, the prevalence of obesity amongst adolescents aged 12-19 and the adults aged above 20 are 20.6% and 37.9% respectively (Centers for Disease Control, 2013). However, the trends could be reversed through active health promotion and promotion of healthy eating habits to the teens. Obesity is known to cause conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes and cardiac attacks.

The community that is targeted by the health promotion activities is school going students, partially those in third grade. The target community has the readiness to learn to owe to the information that they tend to receive from the mainstream media regarding healthy leaving. Experientially, many people who fall within the target group are struggling with obesity and overweight issues that lower their self-esteem and reduce their fitness levels to participate in sports. Such is a good motivation for them to take part in the lessons.

The social learning theory is to be utilized in the health promotion activity. The choice of the approach is based on the need to influence the behavior of the target audience into shunning eating of junk and healthy food and taking balanced diet, with the intention of avoiding the lifestyle diseases. The theory further asserts that meaningful change can only be realized if there are interactions with various people (Johnson & Bradbury, 2015). The theory also offers the framework for evaluating the environmental factors and the personal decisions that drive one into the unhealthy eating behavior.

Therefore, creativity is to result from the engagement of the students where they name the unhealthy and healthy foods that are to be written in charts with different colors and pinned in their classes. The evaluation is to be done by assigning the audience task of developing a healthy food pyramid with each student having a chance to do a presentation. What the review will measure include an understanding of healthy food options, ability to select balanced diet and knowledge of food content in processed foods. The potential barriers could be the resources needs to assemble all the learning resources.

Finally, before the presentation, an icebreaker will be issued to the class to enable them to stay alert. The use of gestures and change in intonation would further help to keep the level alive. At the end of the presentation, a short video clip will be played in class to wrap up the lesson.

References

Centers for Disease Control. (2013). Make a difference at your school.

Johnson, M. D., & Bradbury, T. N. (2015). Contributions of social learning theory to the promotion of healthy relationships: Asset or liability?. Journal of Family Theory & Review, 7(1), 13-27.

Raingruber, B. (2013). The History of Health Promotion. Contemporary Health Promotion in Nursing Practice, 25.