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
Share this book
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
Continuum of Integration
Messaging Interdisciplinary Integrated
Adapted from Brazee & Capelluti (1995), Dissolving Boundaries: Toward an Integrative Curriculum.
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
InstructionCurriculum
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
InstructionCurriculum
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!
Continuum of Integration
Messaging Interdisciplinary Integrated
Adapted from Brazee & Capelluti (1995), Dissolving Boundaries: Toward an Integrative Curriculum.
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
Continuum of Integration
Messaging Interdisciplinary Integrated
Adapted from Brazee & Capelluti (1995), Dissolving Boundaries: Toward an Integrative Curriculum.
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.
3-Year Implementation Highlights
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).
3-Year Implementation Highlights
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