February 21, 2016

Teaching Health to Preschoolers

   I  found an article / Guide on the website Kidshealth in the classroom.The website covers all grades.I clicked on the age group I wanted and found my article/ guide. It talks about Healthy Habits for life.They have a kit you can download. available in several languages. Included in the guide are lesson plans, ways to present them and ideas to get the children eating healthy and exercising. The guides include family handouts, family newsletters and separate sections on eating healthy, exercising and the third part is treating each day as a healthy day. The guide includes families on the weekends by giving ideas  for ways families an keep moving together. There is a dvd mentioned in the guide that you can get to help with the lessons. 

Here is the Kids Health website link

http://classroom.kidshealth.org/index.jsp?Grade=cc&Section=hhfl

Here is the link to the guide

http://classroom.kidshealth.org/cc/GetMoving.pdf 

February 21, 2016
   Being a recent diabetic I am always looking for ways to learn about and control my disease   I was on the American Diabetes websitehttp://www.diabetes.org/ / when I came upon a page for  Older Adults with Diabetes. It is for age 55 and older.I am 51 so I am close enough. It contains a section called the Older Outreach Program called the Senior Signature Series.http://www.diabetes.org/in-my-community/awareness-programs/older-adults/ It has many pamphlets you can download in several languages.They also provide a few facts about Diabetes and the older population.There is also a phone number to call for more information. 1(800)-DIABETES .You can also register for a half day informational event in your area if you are 65 and older. Once you call you will find out if there is an event in your area. I highly recommend if you are a diabetic you download the Living Healthy with Diabetes booklet for age 55 and up. It is a wealth of information about your sugar counts  and the importance of your diet and exercise.

Here is the link for the PDF Booklet  

 http://main.diabetes.org/dorg/PDFs/living-healthy-booklet-american-diabetes-assoc.pdf

February 21 , 2016

       I found an article about writing instructional goals and objectives that uses basically a rubric.It is easy to follow and to understand. .It is called Bloom's Taxonomy. The article is from Vanderbilt University Center for teaching.It states that Blooms Taxonomy is is framework for categorizing educational goals created in 1956 by Benjamin Bloom.
        The framework consists of of six categories Knowledge,Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation.Each category is describe as to what it entails. The article also has links to further help you understand the framework.It gives you a brief history of how Blooms Taxonomy was created and why. The end of the article tells you why you should use Blooms version.Here is their answer:

1. Objectives (learning goals) are important to establish in a pedagogical interchange so that teachers and students alike understand the purpose of that interchange.
2. Teachers can benefit from using frameworks to organize objectives because
3. Organizing objectives helps to clarify objectives for themselves and for students.
4. Having an organized set of objectives helps teachers to:
   • “plan and deliver appropriate instruction”;
   • “design valid assessment tasks and strategies”;and
   • “ensure that instruction and assessment are aligned with the objectives.

For visual learners such as myself they have given a pyramid example of Bloom's Taxonomy

 

The article can be found here https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/blooms-taxonomy/

Writing Objectives Using Bloom's Taxonomy

Writing Objectives Using Bloom's Taxonomy

Writing Objectives Using Bloom's Taxonomy

Writing Objectives Using Bloom's Taxonomy

Hello ,
 I am Mary Frances Kroyak. I have never attempted blogging before so this will be interesting. I actually set this up in 2007 and have never used it. I updated the about me section  so please read it if you have a few extra minutes. Finally welcome to my blog.