Guiding Children to Eat Healthy

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Guiding Children to Eat Healthy was designed to train school food service personnel and lunch aides to better motivate and supervise young children eating school breakfast and lunch. Emphasis is placed on building positive relationships with children, learning to be assertive with children, helping lunch aides to be actively involved with the children and to be part of the "team" of school personnel that work with children each day. This program has been translated into Spanish by Janet Brun, DTR; Supervisor of the NJ Food Stamp Nutrition Education Program--Union County Project for in service training of school food service personnel, lunch aides and educators.

In order to meet the needs of bilingual audiences in New Jersey, a double immersion educational format showing both English and Spanish power point versions of Guiding Children to Eat Healthy at the same time in the same teaching room help English-Speaking as well as Spanish-Speaking participants understand this program. Since the development of this method, participants have been enthusiastic at training sessions because language is no longer a barrier to understanding the information being taught.

Author:
Karen M. Ensle, EdD, RD, FADA, CFCS (Family and Community Health Sciences Educator, Rutgers Cooperative Extension)

Duration:
11 minutes, 52 seconds

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• View Guiding Children to Eat Healthy (English version)
• View Guiding Children to Eat Healthy (Spanish version)

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