Chapter 12 Scenario: Preschool Nutrition


 Review the Kids area of the MyPlate website , https://www.myplate.gov/life-stages/kids  

hypothetically conduct a 1 hour professional development session for your staff, and to evaluate  your guide. 

 

Scenario:

As a director of an early child care  and education program, you wish to ensure that all teachers are  knowledgeable about nutrition in the early years. Hypothetically, you  asked your staff to review the kids section of the MyPlate website in  preparation of an upcoming professional development session you will be  holding at your center. You have located a great video that you will  open the session with. This video is one that teachers can potentially  use in teaching a topic on nutrition in their preschool classrooms. You  will put together a post-video and website review discussion guide so that you and your teachers can explore this topic and discuss your  findings during the professional development session. 

Focus Assignment: 

Create a 4-question post-video discussion guide on the topic of  building teacher understanding of healthy eating. In your guide, be sure  to integrate the concepts of ChooseMyPlate. The  discussion guide will focus on teacher understanding of healthy eating  through ChooseMyPlate. Include any type of break out activity that you  may use to drive the discussion so that your teachers are not just  sitting and listening for the entire session. Think outside the box, how  can you make the discussion active? 

Self-Reflection: 

1. For each item of your discussion guide, explain how this guideline addresses the issues in the scenario