Behavior Change? Modify Nutrition Curriculum Scientifically !

1. Behavior Change? Modify Nutrition Curriculum Scientifically! Lucia Kaiser, PhD, RD Connie Schneider, PhD, RD Susan Donohue, MS, RD

2. Workshop Overview • Pre-Survey • Welcome & Introductions • Adult Learning Theory • Cultural Curricula Adaptation • Nutrition Education Theory • Post-Survey & Workshop Evaluation

3. Objectives • Differentiate between adult and children learning needs. • Identify process (steps) to modify curricula for targeted audience. • Apply educational theory to modify curricula and evaluate behavior change.

4. Adult Learning Theory Connie Schneider, PhD, RD Nutrition, Family, and Consumer Sciences Advisor University of California Cooperative Extension, Fresno

5. Lecture Overview Adult Theory of Learning • Child vs Adult Learners • Adult Characteristics Teaching Tips & Considerations • Teaching Method

6. Turn to your neighbor and ask: How do you like to learn new information?

7. Do you like to learn new information now in the same way you learned when you were ten years old? Why?

8. Adult Education or Fable! Fact!

9. Team Game • Play by tables • Statement will be read • Team to decide if the statement is a fact or a fable • Correct response = ticket • We will draw for prizes later today!

10. Team Game • How should the teams respond if the statement is Fact of Fable? 1. Team Stands? 2. Team Claps? 3. Team raises their hands?

11. Adults must want to learn the topic being presented.

12. Learning Efficiency & Achievement • Personal Motivation • Required class attendance may decrease learning vs. optional attendance • Communicate a passionate need to learn

13. Adults enjoy learning concepts for fun facts and future use.

14. Focus on the target audience’s reality • KISS Principle • Problem-solve solutions & alternatives • Use lots of examples • Know your adult audience

15. Adults learn best whenthe teaching method is lecture.

16. Hear See Touch - Do Smell Taste • Adults learn through their senses • Techniques to incorporate senses will increase learning retention

17. I hear – I tend to forgetI hear and see – I usually rememberI hear and see and do – I understand - Anonymous

18. The environment is critical to learning.

19. The Learning Environment • Welcome participants • Seat participants in groups • Insure safe environment for discussion • Comfortable lighting and climate • Activities and breaks enhance learning

20. Adults have experiences which impacts learning

21. Empower adults in the learning process • Integrate adult experiences in the learning process • Can previous experience have a positive or negative impact on learning? • Positive • Great ideas – Enhances quality of learning • Negative • Misinformation – Inhibits effect of learning

22. Adult educators need to be aware of barriers faced byadult audiences.

23. Learning Barriers • Language, literacy, culture • Other life priorities • Existence Poverty • Confidence level, self-esteem • Many fears • Be respectful • Do not “talk down” or treat as children

24. Lack of Literacy = Lack of Knowledge ?

25. Poverty = Lack of Intelligence ?

26. Adults like their work evaluated.

27. Involve adults in developing class guidelines • Do not criticize • Do not use as “an example” • Encourage and affirm capabilities • Offer suggestions • Insure approach is tactful & • non-threatening • Use self-evaluations

28. Learning by Dialogueaka Learner-Centered Create a safe environment. Knowledge and skills transferred through conversation and participating in activities to develop skills. Involve adult in the process of acquiring and retaining information, skills and strategies.

29. Resources • From Telling to Teaching by Joye Norris (2003) http://www.learningbydialogue.com/ • The Adult Learner by Malcolm Knowles, Elwood Holton, & Richard Swnason (Gulf Publishing, 1998, 5th ed. or 2005, 6th ed.)