Presented by: Valerie Parsons, M.A., M.Ed. And Lizett Olivares, R.D. Monrovia Unified School...

Presented by: Valerie Parsons, M.A., M.Ed. And Lizett Olivares, R.D.

Monrovia Unified School District

Weaving Nutrition Education into Teacher’s Instructional Planning

Instructional Planning

Review of Homework

• Understand District’s goals and needs• Determine adopted curriculum for core

subject areas• Familiarize yourself with your District’s Pacing

Guide or other Instructional Planning Tool• Identify potential partners who are already

teaching nutrition education effectively• Determine what resources are needed• Identify professional development

opportunities• Determine key players or actions for

implementation

The changes in today’s classroom

Single Subject

• Teachers work in a bubble – in charge of their own planning, teaching, and evaluation.

• Interdisciplinary or thematic instruction is possible. However, it tends to be infrequent and considered “extra” to the regular curriculum.

• Tested subjects are the focus October – May and “other” subjects (Art, Music, Nutrition, etc.) are the focus in June and September.

Single Subject Lesson Examples

• Dairy Council Lessons• The Children’s Power Play Campaign• Harvest of the Month (HOTM)• Monrovia’s Cooking-in-the Classroom

Lessons• The Daily Nibble• And many others…

Ideal vs. Reality• Reality-- Just as health standards came out, budget cuts

started to happen.

• The ideal is to teach nutrition as a single subject.

• In today’s circumstances, integration seems to be the most effective way to ensure nutrition education is taught.

• Integration teaches nutrition through core subjects.

• Single-Subject Nutrition Education is fairly easy for teachers if they can find the time.

• Integration is challenging and is where the focus of

Professional Development can developed.

Continuum of Integration

Messaging Interdisciplinary Integrated

Adapted from Brazee & Capelluti (1995), Dissolving Boundaries: Toward an Integrative Curriculum.

Single Subject Nutrition Education?

Nutrition Messaging

• Nutrition messages are consistently incorporated into core curriculum.

• These messages are not skills-based.

• These messages may or may not meet Health Standard 1: Essential Concepts.

• The goal is to send consistent nutrition messages throughout the school year

• Begins to build a healthy culture.

Level 1

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Improving the School Culture

• Begins with collective conversations that create shared understandings.

• This dialogue is a reflective learning process in which group members seek to understand each other’s viewpoints and deeply held assumptions.

• Dialogue leads to collective meaning and these shared understandings become the basis of shared missions, visions, values, and goals.

» Garmston & Wellman, The Adaptive School

Interdisciplinary

• Most common approach to integration.

• It includes one health standard (2-8) integrated with one core standard

• Often, integration occurs through a major event or unit. – A grade level might create a Math Night with a nutrition component. – A nutrition theme-based unit with nutrition integrating one subject area.– Multiple subjects may contribute but through a parallel approach.

• At first, it may still seem to be an add-on, but eventually is seen as a way to make core curriculum more meaningful.

Level 2

Interdisciplinary: Level 2

Full Integration

Level 3

• Take a step beyond the previous level by incorporating a Health Standard, Nutrition Competency, HOTM and a Nutrition Message into more than one content area.

• All Health Standards are addressed at some point during the year.

• Cooperative planning between teachers is a must to make this approach to curriculum powerful and practical.

• No artificial division of knowledge into the subject areas.

• Here, integration is not an “add-on” to the regular curriculum instead nutrition education is the vehicle in which to teach core subjects.

Integration = Higher Level Thinking

Think-Pair-Share

• Think: What level of nutrition education do you think a majority of your teachers are at?

• Pair: Share with the person next to you the level of your teachers.

• Share: Wait for the signal and by a show of hands, indicate what level your teachers are at.

Two Minute Physical Activity

Break

Assessment

InstructionCurriculum

Standards

Components of Lesson Design

First Step: Unpacking the Standards!

• Standards guide instruction and provide a common language under which objectives can be formed.

• Teachers are the experts with the content standards, there is no reason for you to be.

• Pacing Guides provide a platform to ensure all standards are taught by the end of the year.

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Assessment


Standards

What is Curriculum Alignment?

Curriculum alignment refers to the process of interpreting standards, then developing learning objectives that are directly targeted to the standards.

What are Pacing Guides?

A planning tool that helps teachers chart the timing of their instruction so that all tested topics are taught prior to the administration of the state test.

A Pacing Guide

is an outline of the

Intended curriculum

Curriculum Mapping

is an outline of the

Implemented curriculum

Diving Deeper into Pacing Guides

There is no single format for a pacing guide.– Simple: list of weekly topics– Comprehensive: includes strategies,

assessments, materials, & alignment to standards.

• Usually involves multiple levels of collaboration.

• Textbook often have pacing guides to offer suggestions how to cover the material during a given amount of time.

• Other names

Scan and insert HOTM Overview

Month Produce

CA Health

Education

Standards

Lesson

Ideas

Classroom

Activity

NEA cooking

lesson

Tasting Trio Taste Testing

Nutrition

Literature

Book for

MUSD

Cafeteria

MenuNAC Nutrient

Dec Pears

Accessing

Valid Health

Information

High Nutrient

vs. Low

Nutrient Food

Pear Party

Salsa

Party Pear

Frisbees

Orange

Poached

Pears

Eating Pairs:

Counting

Fruits &

Vegetables by

Schutte (AR)

Poached

Orange PearsNewsletter Fiber

Jan Mandarins

Interpersonal

Communicatio

n

Teacher for a

DaySunrise Pizza

Sunny Breeze

Salad

Chicken and

Mandarin Roll-

ups

An Orange in

January by

Aston

(AR)

Mandarin

Orange Salad

Physical

Activity EventVitamin C

FebSweet

Potatoes

Decision

Making

Choose Your

Own

Adventure or

Decision

Making

Worksheet

Sweet Potato

Pie

Paradise

Sweet

Potatoes

Apple Glazed

Sweet

Potatoes

Vegetables(G

ood For Me)

by Hewitt

(AR)

Spicy Baked

Sweet Potato

Fries

Nutrient

Density Potassium

Mar Cabbage Goal Setting

Physical

Activity Goal

Target

Stir Fry

Cabbage

Wraps

Cool Cabbage

Confetti

Braised

Cabbage with

Apples

The Have a

Good Day

Café’ by Park

(AR)

Asian SlawWhite Milk

ChallengeVitamin K

Apr Asparagus

Practicing

Health

Enhancing

Behaviors

Healthy vs.

Unhealthy

Fats

Asparagus

Pasta

Awesome

Asparagus

Appetizer

Sesame

Asparagus

How

Groundhog’s

Garden Grew

by Cherry

(AR)

Parmesan

Asparagus

Healthy Kids

DayFolate

May AvocadoHealth

PromotionPen Pals Fiesta Dip

California

Crackers

Avo-Pineapple

Smoothie

The Fruit

Bowl/Vegetabl

e Soup by

Warren &

Jones

Avocado

Spinach SaladMEO MUFA

June ZucchiniEssential

Concepts

Think Your

Drink

Zucchini-Parm

Saute

Lady Bugs on

a Leaf

Zucchini

Marinara

Delicious: A

Pumpkin Soup

Story by

Cooper

Roasted

Lemon

Pepper

Zucchini

Field Trip Water

Pacing Guides Improve Student Performance

• Lessons designed aligned to pacing guide.

• Align standards, skills and assessments so all students are getting the same material.

• They spotlight opportunities for integration.

Assessment


Standards

How can you make this lesson Level 1?

• Core Standards Integrated– Math: Problem solving and algebra

(mean, median, mode)

– Science: Experimentation/process skills of observing, measuring, hypothesis, predicting, etc.

– Writing: Introductory paragraphs

– Technology skills

Life Savers Excel Spreadsheet Project

• Which flavor of Life Savers candy will last the longest?

• The entire 4th grade at John F. Pattie Elementary School ate Life Savers for 2 months to find out!

• The experiment involved eating Life Savers while being timed, graphing the data in Microsoft Excel, and then publishing their results.

Steps of the Life Saver Project

• The kids ate a whole lot of Life Savers and tracked the amount of time it took to eat each color.

• The worked in small groups to make spreadsheets.

• They created a graph for each color of all times recorded in their class.

• They used the f(x) icon to calculate averages and then graphed the averages.

• FINALLY! Each class discovered which color lasts the longest and which is gone the quickest!

Sean & Kellyn’s Lifesaver Graphs

Hi , I'm Sean and this is Kellyn. I like Legos, K'nex, video games, and soccer. Kellyn likes soccer, to collect dolls, basketball and writing. We are doing a lifesaver test to see how long a lifesaver takes to melt in our mouths. After it melted in our mouths we recorded it and put it in graphs on the computer. Red lasted the longest in our mouths. We hope you liked our graphs.

• Do you think using Life Saver candy made students want to eat them more?

• How could you make this lesson have a healthy nutrition message?

• Look at the 4th grade competencies for Essential Concepts, could you integrate one of those into this lesson?

• Do you think your teachers are consistently incorporating nutrition messages into the school day?

Reflection on Messaging

Keeping the message consistent…

How do we remind teachers to incorporate nutrition messages throughout the entire year?

Pacing Guides!

HOW????

How do we get teachers to incorporate nutrition messages into their pacing guides?

It’s all about the

Process!




Review: Turn to your partner and describe one or two ways

interdisciplinary integration is different than messaging.

Interdisciplinary

• Most common approach to integration.

• It includes one health standard (2-8) integrated with one core standard

• Often, integration occurs through a major event or unit. – A grade level might create a Math Night with a Nutrition component. – A Nutrition theme-based unit Nutrition integrating one subject area.– Multiple subjects may contribute but through a parallel approach.

• At first, it may still seem to be an add-on, but eventually is seen as a way to make core curriculum more meaningful.

Level 2

Now it’s your turn!

• Review some 4th Grade Math Standards

• Experience their application with a Math in the Garden sample lesson

• Add new ideas that incorporate a 4th Grade Nutrition Competency.

Reflection on an Interdisciplinary Nutrition

Education lesson

Questions/Comments?

Working Towards Full Integration

• Level 3 is a process and can always be improved by integrating more core subjects.

• Cooperative planning between teachers

• Requires effective instruction to be successful.

• Use effective teachers to model for others.

Indisputable EvidenceWhat teachers do has six to ten times as

much impact on achievement as all other

factors combined.

-Mortimer Simmons

The single greatest determinant of learning is

NOT socioeconomic factors or funding levels,

IT IS INSTRUCTION.

-Mike Schmoker

Full Integration

Level 3

• Take a step beyond the previous level by incorporating a Health Standard, Nutrition Competency, HOTM and a Nutrition Message into more than one content area.

• All Health Standards are addressed at some point during the year.

• Cooperative planning between teachers is a must to make this approach to curriculum powerful and practical.

• No artificial division of knowledge into the subject areas.

• Here, integration is not an “add-on” to the regular curriculum instead nutrition education is the vehicle in which to teach core subjects.

Level 3: Integrated Model Lesson

Lizett Olivares, R.D., Monrovia Unified School District

• Listen carefully for these items that are integrated into the lesson:– 2 Core Standards– 2 Health Standards – A Nutrition Message

There will be a quiz after!

Physical Activity Break

Application1. Each table will be assigned 1 of the 8 Health Standards

(CHECS).

2. Become familiar with the Nutrition Competencies in 4th grade for your assigned Health Standard.

3. As a group, using the lesson plan form, design a lesson that integrates: (20 minutes)• HOTM• Assigned CHECS • Correlating Nutrition Competency• One Core Standard

4. Using chart paper to highlight the integrated components, each group will have 3 minutes to present their lesson idea.

5. During the presentations, take notes! By the end, you will have all 8 Health Standards integrated into the 4th grade Core Standards!

Action Steps to Implementation

• Determine what level your district is at now.

• What level will you strive towards next?

• Use your completed 4th grade Pacing Guide as an example for teachers, curriculum coordinators and other partners

Getting Started• Assemble a core group of teachers.• Training should focus on Health Standards so teachers have

a common language to discuss integration.• Professional development should move away from lecture to

more hands-on work with integration.• Give teachers time to discuss, plan, and present their ideas.• Establish the understanding that this is an on-going process

and Pacing Guides are a working document.• Create an environment that encourages a cycle of continuous

learning.• Encourage higher-level thinking.• Network staff does not need to be the experts, they just need

to create the environment.• Remember this takes time—it has been a 3 year process for

us!

3-Year Implementation Highlights

Year One

• Start by focusing on consistent messaging in all lessons and making changes to the overall school culture.– Focus professional development on the Health

Standards, Nutrition Competencies, consistent messages, and modeling effective classroom lessons with Level 1 & 2 integration.

– Develop a climate of Professional Learning Communities during trainings.


Year Two

• Use your districts instructional planning tool to help teachers match Core Standards to Health Standards and start integrating.– Focus on integrating all 8 standards and the

Nutrition Competencies.– Model lessons to show how nutrition education

can be the vehicle to teach core subjects (full integration).


Year Three

• Full Integration is a continual process– Start by adding the components your teacher’s

feel most comfortable integrating.– Develop the PTRA cycle (Plan, Teach, Reflect,

and Apply) establishing a continual process of reflection and growth

In Closing….

• Questions

• Comments

• Review

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