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Objectives:
- To explore the ways learners think about health
- To set a tone of sharing and trust among learners in anticipation of the difficulties in talking about difficult health topics.
Step by Step:
- Invite your students to think about the following question: What is good health?
- Ask students to share their answers.Write their responses in a cluster diagram on a large piece of newsprint.
- Extend the discussion by asking clarifying questions. For example, if someone says good health is eating good foods, ask: What kinds of foods? Why?
- Cluster similar responses on the diagram to create categories that students can identify at the end of the lesson.
- Review the diagram. Ask students to talk about what is similar about the ideas in each group. Examples of categories are: personal habits/lifestyle (eating,
sleeping, safe sex); nutrition (good food, fruits, vegetables); professional services (visit to the doctor, getting a mammogram); spiritual (go to church, pray);
community (clean environment).
- Follow Up: Students can copy the diagram into a "good health" journal and use the information for future writing assignments.
HEAL:BCC provides adult learning centers and teachers with materials and support to combine health and literacy education in the
classroom. The above activity is taken from the HEAL:BCC Curriculum and is one of many activities designed to support
teachers in their primary goal of helping learners improve their basic skills while exploring the topics of breast and cervical cancer. Over
the past three years, World Education has piloted the project with nine adult learning centers in three states. We are now partnering with an
additional 16 adult learning centers in four states to replicate and evaluate the model. The evaluation will look at integrating health content
into adult education classes and will examine institutional change, classroom activity, learning (learners' knowledge, attitudes and efficacy),
and behavior change, including detection and screening for breast and cervical cancer.
For more information, contact Sabrina Kurtz-Rossi at 617-482-9485 or at skurtz@worlded.org
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Originally published in: Field Notes, Vol. 10, No. 4 (Spring 2001)
Publisher: SABES/World Education, Boston, MA, Copyright 2001.
Posted on SABES Web site: April 2001
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