Identity Development

How will you support your students' identity development? Be specific. Use suggestions from the textbook and/or online resources to support your strategies.

As a teacher I will give the students opportunities to listen and learn from adult role models that are in different careers in the health field, including male and female doctors, male and female nurses, nutritionists, government health, dentistry, etc. These role models will talk about the education they received, the average income of their job, explain to the students what their jobs entail, and basically letting students know that “they can do this!”

As a teacher, I will give my students a list of local colleges and which majors they offer. I will also discuss different opportunities available for those majors for example, a community health major at UVU has the opportunity to go to Ghana to do a service project for the summer months or for Art History at UVU, students have the opportunity to study abroad in Italy. As the teacher, I could find what areas the majority of my students are interested in and research the different programs at different colleges and tell my students about those opportunities and requirements.

As a teacher, I will be acceptable of teenage fads, I will not judge or allow other students to be rude or judge another student by their dress or hair. I will allow students to be themselves as long as they are being respectful to others.

As a teacher I will only criticize behavior NOT criticize the student. I will make sure I discuss with the student why the behavior was undesirable and together we can come up with a solution to prevent the negative behavior from happening again. As a teacher, I will make sure I let the students know that the behavior was unlike them and what is going on?

As a teacher, when my class learns about healthy and unhealthy relationships in standard one of the state core, I will make sure that I take that opportunity to discuss resources to working out personal problems. I will encourage students to talk to the school counselors anytime, and provide a list of outside resources students can go to to get help such as, hotlines, websites, or organizations in the community.

Differentiation

Differentiation

Carlos, Cassie, Analysa

For a specific topic in your content area, explain how you would differentiate instruction for readiness. Ideas may include the use of grouping, different levels of scaffolding, intervention/enrichment, and/or the use of technology.

Develop and practice effective communication skills.

First of all we would pretest students to check their mastery level of the target objective by giving them a short quiz on the macronutrients (proteins, fats and carbs). We would form learning groups based on their score of the quiz.

Based on the quiz the teacher will have three separate learning groups.

The first group- Students will write a one page paper with a partner and classify the different macronutrients and their sources.  

The second group- Students will write a one page paper defending a macro-nutrient of their choice. The student will examine if or why they think this macro-nutrient is more important than another.

The third group- Students will predict future conditions of individuals with deficiencies in macronutrients by writing a one page paper and defending their position.

                     

Piaget

 Piaget

Explain how you would teach a specific topic at the concrete level. Be sure to include how you would cause disequilibrium, how you would help them assimilate, and how you would help them accommodate.
Concrete level
Most foods that we enjoy eating have fats in them. They have fat that is not good for us. These fats will raise your cholesterol, make you gain weight, and clog your arteries.
Bring in food labels from chips, cookies, candy, processed foods, crackers, salad dressings (point out that basically anything made with animal fat.) Talk to them about how a healthy diet should have less than 10% of saturated fats.
Formal level
Disequilibrium: There are actually fats that are good for you. Fat is necessary for maintaining healthy skin, and it plays a central role in promoting proper eyesight and brain development. Fat is essential for our bodies to be healthy. 

Assimilation: Food has fat in it. We eat fat on a daily basis, however, we need to be aware of which types of fats we are consuming.

Accommodation: Good fat vs bad fats or in other words, trans and saturated fats vs unsaturated fats.

Bring to class foods with unsaturated fats in them (avocados, sunflower seeds, olive oil, salmon, almonds) These fats are actually good for us. They may reduce the risk of coronary heart disease, lower our cholesterol and also boost our immune systems.

Equilibrium: Understand what the good fats are, and all fats that we consume don’t make us fat or are unhealthy for our bodies.