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Inquiry Based Cultural Awareness project. How does learning more about different cultures help us do a better job in the healthcare workplace setting?

For this assignment you are going to create a slideshow project of a culture and teach the rest of the class information that would be important to understand in healthcare work situations. You will be allowed to choose one culture listed below per teacher permission to research. You will be creating a google slideshow with 6-12 slides .

Here is a sample project. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1W-ib-ITz1zzy9Suf7UAXV56tG7rTPRo859AA4jnihz4/edit#slide=id.p

Strive to answer all of the these questions listed below in your presentation

1. Consideration of family organization in the provision of health care
2. Consideration of language in providing health care
3. Consideration of personal space in providing health care
4. Health care beliefs regarding cause of illness, methods of treatment, and response of pain.

Each student in the class needs to do a different report so we can all learn about as many cultures as possible. Please comment after this blog post the culture you would like to do and if needed I will speak with you if more than one person asks for the same one. You will give a 5 to 10 minute oral presentation with your slide show. Write out your oral presentation notes in the speaker notes below the slides.  Your project must include at least 6 slides. More is great! The cultures are:

Islamic

Arabic

Hispanic American

Asian American

Cambodia

African American

Central and South African

Dominican Republic

Haiti

Jamaica

European American

England

France

Germany

Italy

Norway

Russia

Poland

Cuba

China

Japan

Korea

Western American

Indosphere

Tibetan

Mexico

Puerto Rico

Spain

Central and South America

Middle Eastern Americans

Egypt

Iran

Iraq

Jordan

Lebanon

Palestine

Saudi Arabia

North African 

Native Americans

If there is another culture not listed that you would like to research you must talk with the teacher for approval. 

In your slide show you need to include information about the culture’s family organization, language, personal space and touch, eye contact, gestures, and their health care beliefs. Use the rubric to make sure you include all the information required. Also Include this information in your speaker notes for the slideshow and then complete the assessment on google forms.

Assessment 1 – Rubric -Summative https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B2k0lY7MCxsiR4BtiL-GdsXJ7pjeUlHx/view?ths=true

Assessment 1 Formative – Using a Google form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeOc2hIz3PmtndZlVeQaJFXPmT7E0Ythj_XrAyyfXXYgBXe7g/viewform

Critical thinking questions also listed here below from assessment.

What is the typical Family organization in this culture? (nuclear or extended, patriarchal or matriarchal?)

What language is typically spoken in this culture?

What is acceptable personal space and touch between people in this culture?

What about eye contact? Is direct contact acceptable? or not?

What gestures are commonly used in this culture? What is a situation that this might occur in a health care setting?

What health care beliefs with regard to religion or spiritual reasoning are important to know while working with people in a health care situation? What else did you learn about this culture that you found very interesting? How was this culture different of the same from your own? Why was it important to know about other cultures in a work setting?

Explanation.

I created an Inquiry based activity for my students to research all about another culture.  My students loved this activity and their results were really awesome. They seemed to really enjoy it.  The students were able to learn about many cultures and why understanding them is very important in the work setting. 

Wolpert-Gawron (2016), “Triggering inquiry is about learning something new, and triggering curiosity is no small feat. It takes modeling enthusiasm, and learning something new generates our own enthusiasm, even if it’s something new about the content we’ve covered for years”.  

Technology was used as a tool for researching the culture online,  google slides for the presentation, and google forms for the assessment as well. Students have the option to use many applications in the course of creating their presentation. 

Reference Page

Wolpert-Gawron, H. (2016). Edutopia.org. Retrieved from https://www.edutopia.org/blog/what-heck-inquiry-based-learning-heather-wolpert-gawron

Nutrition Lesson Plan
Objective: To educate my students on how to plan a healthy balanced and  nutrient dense meal. 
Materials Needed: chromebooks, smartboard, video from http://www.choosemyplate.org and quizzes, paper and pencil. 

Target Population: 9th grade students/high school 
Instructional Approach and Procedure: Student directed learning. Also to connect prior learning. 

•  STUDENT DIRECTED LEARNING – by allowing the students to individually explore the website and the many tools located there they can explore their own eating habits and look for ways to enhance their diet and choices with food each day. This learning activity will allow them to do these things listed below.
• To apply proper nutrition and physical activity practices to everyday life. 
• Enhance Personal Wellness 
• Apply knowledge of food and nutrient needs to personal eating decisions and meal planning.  
• Evaluate various sources that affect your personal dietary choices and physical activity habits. 
•  Formulate an effective plan for personal health enhancement.
• Determine the value of applying a thoughtful decision-making process in health-related situations. 
• Implement a wellness plan that meets dietary guidelines and incorporates moderate to vigorous physical activity.

1. Remember Prior Learning/Direct Instruction/ Questioning – Start off by reminding students about what we have already been discussing including the problems with obesity and preventable disease in our country.  Ask the students what they have already learned about nutrition. Introduce how important good nutrition and healthy eating is to each one of us. 

2. Online Multimedia tool – Show a short video to introduce the website www.choosemyplate.org  My Plate, My Wins. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8KsDHCPrwY&feature=youtu.be

  3. Interactive technology instruction activity -To allow kinesthetic learners to move and stay engaged.  Use the smartboard to introduce the website www.choosemyplate.org .  Go through different aspects of the website showing them how to click through and find healthy foods.  

 4.  Self Directed Learning – To explore the website and get familiar. Have the students get a  chromebook and go to the choose my plate website (www.choosemyplate.org). Give them 5 minutes to get the chrome book and open it up to the website.   Do the ‘my plate plan’ and find out your recommended daily calories. https://www.choosemyplate.gov/MyPlatePlan

5. Additional student directed learning. Take the quizzes on the website to see what know already about healthy eating. https://www.choosemyplate.gov/quiz

 6.  Cooperative Learning/Partner Share – To have more engagement and cognitive thinking. Ask the students to raise their hands and share some small changes they think could improve their diet.  Tell them to come up with three small food changes they could make. Write them down and share with another student in the room.

7. Wrap up/Closure  and Reinforced Learning -Review what has been learned with the entire class.

Your first activity is to help yourself lay out a vision of who you want to become. Please follow the directions below carefully!

First open up google slides. https://docs.google.com/presentation/u/0/?tgif=d

1. On your first slide answer the first five questions .  Then brainstorm question 2. After doing those items create the Vision Board (3) on a google slide and follow the directions carefully.  4. Finish up with a short reflection essay of 175 words about the activity. I will be moving around the classroom to offer assistance and you may talk to students who sit near you if you need help at any point on your vision board.
   

1. Review Goals. Please answer these questions on your first slide.
   1. Goal for this year, are you on track to meet it? What can you do?
   2. Goal for four years of high school, graduation? (ex. white gown) What do you need to do now to meet that goal?
   3. Future Goals; after High school, college goals, career goals? What makes you happy?
   4. Write at least three things even if they seem silly. For example, I like the color red, daisies, chocolate chip cookies, basketball etc.
   5. What is “one word” to help you focus for the year. Choose one word that will inspire you.
2. Brainstorm. Think about the lifestyle you want? Things like living in a city, by the ocean, or having weekends off, working four day weeks, etc. Does your career goal, meet these desires? What career do you envision doing? What pictures can you find that depict the life you want.
3. Vision Board – Create your second Google Slide that encompases all these things. This is the one that should inspire you. Make sure you include your one focus word, and a lot of photos of what represents success for you this year and in the future. Be creative! Have fun and let your personality come through. Be sure and follow copyright laws .
4. 175 word reflection – Please complete this project with a 175 word reflection on how you felt about making this project. Explain what was difficult. What did you enjoy? How did you like using google slides for the project? Any issues? Describe what you learned about yourself while working on this. You may type this on a google document or additional slide. Share all the slides and/or documents together when completed with me at creersh@nv.ccsd.net

Who does this instructional activity address? This activity addresses my gifted and talented students and also my culturally diverse learners. It is also a great activity for all of my students with all levels of cognitive challenges as it allows them to work independently, focused, and work at their own level and ability. There is room to explore and be creative. I have used Google Slides Presentations as the web-based tool. There is no right or wrong answer for this project. I appreciated reading this in the book, Teaching and Learning with Technology “Whether a student is physically challenged, has learning issues, or is gifted, technology can play a significant role in enhancing and supporting his or her learning…. technology solutions can be remedial, supportive, or expansive in the learning experience across all content areas (Lever-Duffy & McDonald, 2015, p. 67).

Lever-Duffy, J., & McDonald, J. (2015). Teaching and learning with technology (5th ed.). Retrieved from The University of Phoenix eBook Collection database.

Reflection

This week’s assignment was a little rough for me. Honestly I had a hard time understanding how I was to complete the work and starting a blog was very overwhelming for me. I am not one who loves to write and also technological tools, such as this blog, can be daunting for someone unfamiliar as myself. I am still fumbling over how to create new posts and while I did like wordpress better than google blogger, as it had more options I could figure out, I am still not over feeling anxious. I am a prime example of the reasons technology isn’t always smooth sailing. What would have been more helpful for me was to have someone to work with me who already had experience creating a blog. Perhaps a pair up would be helpful in this circumstance? Or a video teaching me exactly how to do this wordpress blog. Technology for me is hands-on and if you don’t know how to do it, if you are like me, you resist.

That being said I did eventually figure out a lot! I am actually excited to share my introductory post with my students next fall in health ed and health science. I can see how a blog could be a really awesome way to interact with my class and have them contribute individually with posts, feedback, and comments as well. The practice writing and critical thinking for my students would be fantastic too. I chose to use wordpress as it was the most familiar to me and also seemed to have the most creative options I could figure out. I am a very social person and I do like the idea of sharing my thoughts with a larger audience besides my students as well. I think setting the example for my students of constructing their thoughts and putting them online for others to share is a worthy activity. I’m also considering having my students keep an online journal on the subjects we cover in health class using WordPress or perhaps another web based tool that can encourage creative thinking and analogy as well as communication and possible collaboration.

WordPress.com(n.d.). Retrieved from https://wordpress.com/

Hello my name is Mrs. Creer and I’m so happy to be your teacher! I started teaching last year at Las Vegas High School and I’m not your average teacher. I’m a lot older than most teachers who begin a career in teaching and that means I come with a lot of unique experience. I have been a mother of my six children for the last 20 years working hard to help them become amazing human beings. It was important to me that I could be there as much as possible to run them to and from their school events and extra activities. I wanted to be there to plant in their little minds all the life lessons and every day teaching that would happen at unexpected moments. I love being a mom! I have four daughters and two sons ranging in age from 11 to 23 and the last two were twins!

The other big passion I have is taking care of my health and helping others do the same! I have worked as a certified personal trainer for 15 years and a group fitness instructor teaching indoor cycling, strength training, and flexibility classes. I have worked directly with older adults in fitness as well. I became a high school teacher so that I could share my passion with all of you! The choices that you make with regard to your health in these high school years is so important and sets the potential habits that can continue for a lifetime.

In my classroom I have lettering on the wall that states, “What you water grows”. This statement is kind of my main philosophy in my classes. If you take care of a plant it will give back to you in ways you cannot measure fully. For example one apple tree seed can produce up to 500 apples in one season. That same small seed can produce for up to 20 years. You must nurture it and provide the proper care including nutrients, sunlight and water. With regard to your health including mental, emotional, social, and physical health, you must care for each of these properly. Over time those who care for their body, mind, and spirit see greater happiness and peace in life, while those who have been reckless in what they eat and drink, careless in how they physically use their bodies, or have fed negative thoughts and taken no care in stimulating their minds regularly, begin to see diminished quality of life. It does not happen overnight just as a tree does not create fruit for some time. Care must be taken daily to watch for disease, damage, and issues that may damage the results. Watering regularly with the proper nutrients, will generally lead to good results and yet it is pretty miraculous to observe the fruits of your labors! (another hobby of mine is that I love to work in my little garden.)

Our health truly is our wealth in life and my job as your teacher is to educate and inspire my students to nurture and love themself to take care of their greatest asset.

Your health.

I look forward to learning more about you and what inspires you.