American Dental Education Association. (2013 November). Explore Health Careers.org. Accessed at: http://explorehealthcareers.org/en/home
This website is a great source of many different health care fields and types of workers. This website will be a great starting point for selecting fields of medicine to include in my health literacy project, such as pharmacy, medicine, dieticians, and more.
American Pharmacist Association. (2013). Generation Rx. Retrieved from: http://www.pharmacist.com/node/24080
The program “Generation Rx” works to promote youth education on the dangers of drug abuse. This website is a great resource since it already targets youth education. It includes presentations, handouts, and ideas for skits that are a great way of introducing the topic to children. Using the information on the website, I can modify the techniques that are used into one that could be used for a longer course in the elementary school, as well as one that is appropriate for different grade levels. The downside of this website is that it only focuses on inappropriate drug use, while I wish to focus more on general health literacy. However, they have designed many activities that be integrated into the curriculum, especially the use of health care professionals and pharmacy students.
Blom-Hoffman, J., Wilcox, K. R., Dunn, L., Leff, S.S., and Power, T.J. (2008 December 1). Family Involvement in School-Based Health Promotion: Bringing Nutrition Information Home. School Psych Rev. 37(4): 567–577. Retrieved from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2714582/.
I believe that this article will be useful because it focuses on the benefit of a partnership between school programs and the involvement of parents for...
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...dat T, Nemati R, Shahbazi M. (2012 December) Can Children Enhance Their Family’s Health Knowledge? An Infectious Disease Health Program. Iran Journal of Pediatrics. 22(4):493-8. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23430134
The research presented in this article shows that children who are taught health information by way of rhymes can improve parent knowledge of said health information. While this study was conducted in Iran, I do believe that the principles are the same and that making information fun and easy to remember, can help improve adult knowledge as well. They measured adult knowledge on the subject before the education and four months after the initial education. The article found that knowledge in parents increase from 59.22% to 81%. This article will help show that the program that I am working on will have real world benefits.
Decades of research proves partnerships between schools and families not only enhance children’s learning and achievement, it is also mutually beneficial to the families and educators. As an early childhood educator, my philosophy is rooted in establishing and maintaining a strong and effective partnership with families and communities that can help children and their families thrive. My approach focuses on effective communication between family and school, respect for diversity, and promoting learning at home.
We know that children get easily affected and tend to act out of obedience due to the school environment and peers. Furthermore, its is hard to decide if their intentions are pure in eating healthier foods. We thought that it would be beneficial to introduce these options at a younger age so they have exposure to healthy foods before middle school. Also, it would be helpful to discuss these topics with the parents of the children to insure that these practices are effective in their personal life as well. Finally, we thought that the most effective when the students are able to engage across different grades and age groups. And, these kinds of programs should be broaden throughout the
Traditional models for ELL Parental Involvement provide valuable suggestions regarding the types of support parents can offer to their children in different contexts (Arias & Morillo-Campbell, 2008). Epstein (2011) proposes a framework with six types of involvement in order to assist school-based teams of teachers, school principals, and parents who are in charge of improving family and community involvement, develop all-inclusive programs of school, family and community partnerships. Epstein (2011) Suggest the following six areas of parental involvement: 1) Parenting, 2) Communicating, 3) Volunteering, 4) Learning at home, 5) Decision making, and 6) Collaborating with the community.
Gross, S. and Cinelli, B. (2004). Coordinated school health program and Dietetics professionals: Partners in promoting healthful eating. Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 793-798.
Cottrell, R. R., Girvan, J. T., & McKenzie, J. F. (2012). Principles and foundations of health promotion and education (5th ed.). San Francisco, CA: Benjamin Cummings. ISBN 9780321734952.
Most parents and community members do not understand the importance of quality afterschool and out-of-school programs for their children. Therefore, the WVSAN continues to play an important role in educating communities about th...
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). (2014). Health literacy free online course. Retrieved from website: http://www.hrsa.gov/publichealth/healthliteracy/
In the previous chapters I discussed the problem of the lack of healthy eating promotion programs in schools are leaving parents and students uneducated about how to purchase healthy items which is leading to childhood obesity. I also discussed how the problem is being addressed, as well as the theory of social constructionism. In this chapter, I will discuss the specific methodology I plan to use and the three different types of data collection I plan to employ to carry out my study. This study will use a qualitative approach to study and address the issue of the lack of healthy eating promotion in schools. The three types of data collection I plan to use are: direct observation, focus groups and a questionnaire. These methods will be clarified later in this chapter.
Parent involvement is a major topic of concern among policy makers, educators, and researchers (Brooks-Gunn, Duncan, & Maritato, 1997; Rouse & Barrow, 2006; Young, Austin, & Growe, 2013) for more than 20 years. School districts, educational leaders, and researchers all agree with the premise that strong school-family partnerships improve children’s learning and outcomes. Parents and schools, separately or together, represent noteworthy influences on the essential sources of support for children’s learning and development. Children develop within multiple contexts, and development and learning are optimal when effective networks and permanencies among these systems are created. Semke and Sheridan (2012) affirm methods
This website magazine article informs the viewer on why parent involvement in schools are important, and what parents and teachers can do to become involved in the schools.
Parents and families are children’s first educator as they play an important role into young children’s education and development. The term “partnership with parents” has been outlined as a “working relationship that is characterised by shared interest of purpose, mutual respect and the willingness to negotiate” (Pugh & De’ath, 1989, p. 34). This includes parents and educators coming together; sharing the process of decision making; outlining individual information and skills; sharing of feelings and recognition of individuality of families (O’Hogan & Curtis, 2003). However, OECD (2001) emphasized that partnership is not about being involved but instead it’s more about the educator sharing the responsibility for young children with their parents and taking the opportunity of learning from all the unique knowledge that different countries bring on board. According to Pugh & Duffy (2010) partnership can be identified by having parents involved in the planning of next steps for their child’s learning or being involved in the recruitment of staffs. As Lindon (1997) stated that partnership with parents is the fundamental part of enriching good practice in the early years. In relation to Aistear (NCCA, 2009) the responsibilities from parents and educators value each other’s opinions in order to benefit children. Síolta (CEDE, 2006) highlight partnership with parents takes a child’s best interest into account by being opened, honest and respectful.
When it comes to parental involvement, most people agree with the “why”; it’s the “how” that poses the challenge. The vast majority of parents want to be involved, but face significant barriers in doing so. The vast majority of schools welcome parent involvement, but with short parent meetings (for which both sides struggle to find time), it’s hard to know exactly what to do.
Involving parents with school activities will benefit the school parent and the child. Teachers will have more help and will know the children closely if the parents are involved. Children feel happy and secure to see their parents around and it makes them confident too. We can start the involvement by inviting parents as volunteers for story reading and school outings. The importance of parental involvement is stressed in Lev Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory which states parents, caregivers, peers, and the culture at large were responsible for developing higher order functions. On the other hand, parents will also have a sense of inclusion in their child’s development process. Parents will share more family time and bonding with their young kids which supports the child’s psychological needs
I want to investigate how schools and parents can work together to support healthy eating for young children. Many schools already have healthy eating initiatives in place, however, there is still a high percentage of children with obesity. I firmly believe that if schools and parents have a close partnership in promoting healthy eating young children will have consistency both in the school and home environment. Healthy eating is an area that I feel passionate about due to the effects poor nutrition can have on the child both in the short term and in the long term. During my second school placement, I witnessed a healthy eating initiative that was extremely successful both with the staff and the students. This has influenced my enthusiasm to promote healthy eating in the early years by including parents in order to combat the serious issue of childhood
I interviewed both a teacher and a parent regarding school and community partnerships. School and community partnerships are vital because taxpayers have a vested interest in what their dollars are being used for, effective communication contributes to public confidence in schools, and students benefit when all stakeholders play a role in education. The teacher I interviewed is a Kindergarten teacher in a school that is very diverse and works with many students and families that live in poverty. The parent I interviewed is the mother of five children, but I asked her to focus on her youngest son who is in fourth grade when answering the questions. The school he attends is a small private school.