Teacher Professional Development

Teachers are eligible to receive 10 hours of professional development and certification through Rio Salado College by completing the “Hip Hop Healthy Heart Program for Children.” Learn more by contacting program chairperson Jyl Steinback at                  602 996-6300 or at Jyl@AmericasHealthiestMom.com.

Teaching Kids the Basics of Healthy Living

Dear Teacher,

 

Congratulations! You are about to learn how you can positively influence each of your students for the rest of their lives by teaching the basics of healthy living through the "Hip Hop Healthy Heart Program for Children".

 

The program includes six exciting teaching modules:

 

1. Meet Doctor Beat . . . Your Fascinating Heart

2. Eat Good Food, Dude . . . Nutrition for Great Health

3. Take Down da' Pressure . . . Keeping The Pressure Down

4. Improve Your Groove . . . The Many Benefits of Exercise

5. Grin it, Win it . . .Dental Health Means Heart Health

6. Think Hip 'n Happy . . . Positive Thinking for Healthy Heart

 

Module Features:

·    No Brainer Teaching! -  To make this complex topic a no-brainer, Positive Living has done the organization for you with four to six, easy-to-teach, 20-30 minute lessons designed to fit into Monday through Friday lesson plan.

·    Two Versions - We offer modules for:

o    K-3 grade teachers

o    4-6 grade teachers

·    Presentation Style - The effects of each lesson are presented with a positive approach designed to give all students self-confidence.

 

Teachers Benefits

Each of the Lessons -

©     Communicate nutrition concepts through age-appropriate, fun activities and hip-hop style rhymes.

©     Offer activities and handouts that incorporate a variety or interdisciplinary skills including math, reading comprehension, writing, critical thinking, information analysis, organization, comparison, and synthesis.

©     Offer a variety of ways to teach the subject for busy teachers. 

©     Contain student handouts that may be duplicated.

©     Provide activity handouts to send home for parent involvement.

 

Interdisciplinary Benefits

Each of the 5 Lessons -

©     Integrate teaching each lesson with teaching one or more of the following subkects: science, math, health, language arts, music and physical education.

©     Offer activities and handouts that promote reading comprehension, writing, critical thinking, information analysis, organization, comparison, and synthesis.

 

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