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Teens Promoting Health Awareness

Teens Promoting Health Awareness. How to Start a Peer Tutor Project at Your School. The ¡VIVA! Peer Tutor Project of South Texas ISD. Teens promote health literacy through the use of National Library of Medicine resources Class presentations Outreach events Program benefits

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Teens Promoting Health Awareness

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  1. Teens Promoting Health Awareness How to Start a Peer Tutor Project at Your School

  2. The ¡VIVA! Peer Tutor Project of South Texas ISD • Teens promote health literacy through the use of National Library of Medicine resources • Class presentations • Outreach events • Program benefits • Service learning • Collaboration • 21st century skills

  3. Overview Best Practices

  4. Planning • Complete in advance • Write and distribute • Involve key players • Follow a timeline • Have a backup plan • Complete a budget • Buy supplies

  5. Management • Consistency • The fewer, the better • Have an assistant who is informed

  6. Recruiting • Establish criteria for program participation during planning • Advertise early and everywhere possible • Have a written job description • Make expectations clear

  7. Applications, Screening, Selection • Students • Submit letter of interest and/or application • Review written applications to determine eligibility • Get teacher, counselor and/or administration recommendations • Check grades • Should be upperclassmen • Possess good public speaking skills

  8. Orientation • Provide on first day • Delineate policies and procedures • Distribute calendar, materials and other information

  9. Training • Practice with case studies or role-playing activities • Learn to give and receive feedback • Rehearse • Videotape

  10. Parental Support • Make expectations clear • Statement of commitment • Calendars • Parent meeting • Dress rehearsals • Potluck

  11. Monitoring • Hold feedback sessions with teachers, tutors and managers • Obtain written reports • Could be a simple checklist • Final “Best Practices” session for program evaluation

  12. PR • Begins with recruiting • Publicize progress to other members of district, families and public • Keep photo history • Give recognition

  13. Record Keeping • Attendance records • Files of successful activities • Calendars

  14. Evaluation • Collect data • Guest log • Attendance • Feedback • Make adjustments • Report success

  15. Detailed Information Your Campus

  16. First Things First • Administrator approval • Medical librarian or qualified trainer recruited

  17. Personnel • Program sponsor • Campus librarian or teacher • Motivated, energetic and organized • Trainer • Medical librarian • Peer tutors • Upperclassmen • Must be passing all classes • Good public speaking skills

  18. Getting Started • Medical librarian trains program sponsor on NLM resources • MedlinePlus, PubMed, Tox Town, Household Products Database • Program sponsor trains peer tutors • Focus on MedlinePlus • Peer tutors practice and provide positive feedback • Videotaping

  19. Spreading the Word • Faculty meetings • Class presentations • Open houses • Sporting events • School activities

  20. Documentation • Meeting attendance • Outreach/presentation attendance • Photos

  21. Help is Here ¡VIVA! web site • http://bla.stisd.net/viva.html

  22. Our Project

  23. NLM Resources MedlinePlus Tox Town Pub Med Household Products Database Household Products Pub Med Tox Town MedlinePlus

  24. Project Team Members • Lucy Hansen lucy.hansen@stisd.net Principal Investigator • Sara Reibman sara.reibman@stisd.net Project Specialist • Ann Vickman ann.vickman@stisd.net Project Director • Javier Jiménez javier.jimenez@stisd.net Technology Support • Debra Warner dwarner3@rgv.rr.com Project Consultant • Cindy Olney, PhD. olneyc@coevaluation.com Evaluation Consultant

  25. PowerPoint prepared by Ann Vickman and Sara Reibman 2008

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