Teaching about Personal Body Care 1.pdf

Teaching health and hygiene (TA) ◼ Face-to-face:  Guide student teachers to explain health and hygiene in terms of wellness, disease, prevention and recognitions of symptoms.  Put students in groups to present their report on local terminologies used to refer to these...

Teaching health and hygiene (TA) ◼ Face-to-face:  Guide student teachers to explain health and hygiene in terms of wellness, disease, prevention and recognitions of symptoms.  Put students in groups to present their report on local terminologies used to refer to these terms; wellness, disease, preventions and symptoms, and how they can be better presented to basic school learners. Teaching health and hygiene (TA) Contd ◼ E-learning opportunity:  Put students in mixed ability groups and present video and computer simulations (source: MOOCs, OERs) on good and bad hygiene practices to student teachers. Teaching health and hygiene (SA) ◼ Face-to-face:  Brainstorm to come out with explanations of the concepts of health and hygiene.  Working in groups, student teacher presents a report on local terminologies used for the following terms: wellness, disease, preventions and symptoms and how they can be better presented to basic school learners. Teaching health and hygiene (SA) Contd ◼ E-learning opportunity:  Work in mixed ability groups and make health cards on good and bad hygiene practices from video and computer simulation for presentation. Infections and diseases (TA) ◼ Face-to-face/Elearning opportunities:  Questioning identifies student teachers’ misconceptions about causes of diseases and connection between personal health and infectious diseases.  Provide videos on communicable and noncommunicable diseases for student teachers to view and report. Infections and diseases (TA) ◼ E-learning:  Maintain students-teachers in mixed ability groups and present them with video on the causes of common communicable and non- communicable diseases and directs student teachers to make mini projects that will document mode of transmission, symptoms, treatment/prevention Infections and diseases (TA) Contd ◼ E-learning/face-to-face:  Brieflyexplain what action research is to student teachers.  Maintain mixed ability groups and assign tasks to investigate various groups, organizations and institutions that work towards community and environmental hygiene through a mini action research. Infections and diseases (SA) ◼ Face-to-face/eLearning opportunities:  Present designs of diagnostic tool in groups to unearth learners’ misconceptions on diseases and personal hygiene Infections and diseases (SA) Contd ◼ E-learning:  Reflect on the videos presented and make T- charts on communicable and noncommunicable diseases and their causes.  Use the T-charts as TLM to demonstrate how they can be used to teach the topic at the basic school. Infections and diseases (SA) Contd ◼ E-learning/ independent study:  Work in groups to design guidelines for mini action research with the help of the teacher, to study institutions, organizations and groups working towards community and environmental hygiene.  The study should be presented in the next week during lesson on Humans and their environment TLMs ◼ The Course Manual, Computer, projectors, ◼ Flip Charts, Pens, Pencils, ‘A’ 4 sheets, ◼ markers, health cards, work sheets, slides, videos.