Transcript Teaching Adults About Food Safety

Teaching Adults to
Teach Children about Food Safety
Food Safety Professional Development
for
Early Childhood Educators
Teaching Adults
to Teach Children about Food
Safety
• Goals
– Introduce ideas to help you effectively
communicate with others
– Introduce you to some tips for dealing with
culturally diverse audiences
– Introduce several ways of promoting
parental involvement
– Introduce some things that could make
your presentation/workshop completely
ineffective
– Give tips for effective workshops and
How do adults learn?
Three Powerful Principles of Adult Learning
• Adults bring a lot of experience with them to
workshops, and therefore have something to
contribute and something to lose.
• Adults want workshops that focus on reallife here and now problems and tasks, rather
than on academic situations.
• Adults are accustomed to being active and
self-directed.
Something to Learn and
Something to Contribute
• Every person learns at their own pace and
in their own way.
• Adults have a lot invested in their
experience.
• If adults are expected to change, it must be
of their own volition. Workshop leaders
cannot FORCE change.
Real-life,
“Here and Now” Situations
• Adults see learning as a means to an end,
rather than as an end in itself.
• Learning is voluntary. It must have
personal meaning and it must be of direct
and immediate value, or adults just won’t
be interested.
Active & Self-Directed Learning
• The best learning is based on experience.
• Aim for a cooperative and collaborative
process that supports participants sharing
their experiences.
Matching Adult Teaching
Strategies with Your Audience
(Know Your Audience)
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Who are they?
Why should they listen to you?
Can they relate to you?
Are you adequately addressing
cultural differences?
Analyzing Your Audience
• Demographic information
• Audience attitudes, values, and beliefs
• What do they know and when did they
know it?
Why should they listen to you?
• Tell them what to expect
• Highlight the benefits
Can your audience
relate to you?
• Create common ground
• Localize and customize your
remarks
• Push their hot buttons
Speaking to
Cross-Cultural Audiences
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Do not fall for stereotypes
Do not assume your humor will work
Do project humility
Do not greet the audience in their
language if you do not speak it
Creating Rapport
• Acknowledge what the audience is feeling
• Share something that helps the audience
know you
• Do not whine about your problems
• Identify and address audience audience
subgroups
• Identify influential audience members
• Express your feelings
• Focus on their needs, not yours
Emphasizing the Importance
Of Food Safety Content
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Why should I listen to you?
How does this relate to me?
What is my benefit from listening?
How does this apply to my current
circumstances?
Identifying Developmentally
Appropriate Information &
Children’s Knowledge Base
What do they know and
how can we build on that?
Communication Process
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Verbal and nonverbal messages
Reactions to role
Emotional responses
Personal factors
Communication
Leads to Involvement
(Six Levels)
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Parenting
Communicating
Volunteering
Learning at home
Decision making
Collaborating with community
Family-Friendly Schools
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Welcome parents visually and emotionally
Accommodate diverse family situations
Make it easy to get involved
Demonstrate that parental opinions and
involvement are important
• Create spaces for parents
• Provide assistance and resources
Effective Communication Methods
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Telephone calls
Written communications
Communicating through technology
Visual communication
Home visits
Parent meetings
Parent-teacher conferences
Factors Influencing
Quality Involvement
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Written policies
Administrative support
Training
Partnership approach
Networking
Evaluation
Benefits of
Teacher-Parent Partnerships for
Children, Parents and Teachers
Benefits for Children
• Security
• Self-worth
• Guide and nurture a child’s development
knowledgeably
• Gain academic skills and verbal
intelligence
Benefits for Parents
• Support
• Gained knowledge and skill
• Parental self-esteem
Benefits for Teachers
• Increased knowledge (get history of
children)
• Self confidence
• Parental resource to supplement and
reinforce their efforts in providing an enlarge
world of learning
Barriers to
Teacher-Parent Partnerships
Barrier Caused by Human
Nature
• Fear of criticism
• Fear hidden behind a
“professional” mask
• Parent reactions
• Fear of failure
• Fear of difference
External Barriers
• Time
• “Busy-ness”
• Old ideas of parent
involvement
• Administrative policies
• Personal problems
The barriers can be broken by “a
bit more relaxation, a bit more
empathy, a bit more recognition of
the many complex factor that
shape life for all of us”
Tips for Effective Workshops
(Eight Steps to Effective Training Events)
Step 1. Define purpose of the training and
target audience
Step 2. Determine participants’ needs
Step 3. Define training goals and objectives
Step 4. Outline training content
Tips for Effective Workshops
(Eight Steps to Effective Training Events)
Step 5. Develop instructional activities
Step 6. Prepare the written training design
Step 7. Prepare participant evaluation form(s)
Step 8. Determine follow-up activities for the
event
Critical Requirements
For In-Service Training
• New skills and knowledge must be presented
to improve the employee’s usefulness in their
assigned job
• Training activities must develop employee
understanding of their assigned job and the
responsibilities incumbent upon them
• Information must be available and skills must
be present to enable the employee to review,
update, and upgrade their knowledge
necessary for his assigned job
Critical Requirements
For In-Service Training
• Training activities are immediately applicable
to the job assignment
• Training is provided for promotion to greater
responsibility
• Training and activities provide an opportunity
to broaden general work knowledge
What Have We Learned?
• How to identify with your audience
• How to create a relationship with your
audience
• How to promote parental involvement
• How barriers will impede your success
• How to plan an effective workshop