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7 Teacher Preparation and Training
Pages 63-72

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... • Program directors, professors, and teachers need to be held accountable for nutrition education for future teachers. • Increasing the number of teachers trained to teach nutrition education in elementary, middle, and high schools is imperative if standards in nutrition education are to be met.
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From page 64...
... UNDERGRADUATE TRAINING OF FUTURE TEACHERS The costs of health care in the United States exceed $20,000 per family, said Esther Okeiyi, professor and program director for the dietetic internship program and didactic programs in dietetics at North Carolina Central University. Given that poor nutrition is a contributor to this cost, nutrition education must be a high priority.
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From page 65...
... All programs follow accrediting and state standards. To determine the steps needed to provide training for future teachers, Okeiyi interviewed university program directors involved in the preparation of teachers, state consultants assisting with policy, university teachers who teach nutrition education, and undergraduates.
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From page 66...
... National, state, and accreditation standards should address the minimum number of credit hours of undergraduate study required to qualify teachers to teach nutrition education. Educators and teachers must know what skills, knowledge, and values students should have acquired in the area of nutrition.
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From page 67...
... STANDARDS AND TEACHER CERTIFICATION Phillip Rogers, executive director of the National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification, reviewed the process by which teachers are certified in areas subject to education standards. He began by reviewing a set of guidelines for the accreditation of teacher preparation programs in the United States (Lauer and Dean, 2004)
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From page 68...
... The National Council of Accreditation of Teacher Education, which at the time of the workshop was changing its name to the Council on Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) , works with these groups in evaluating teacher preparation programs.
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From page 69...
... Marilyn Townsend, Cooperative Extension nutrition specialist in the Department of Nutrition at the University of California, Davis -- who develops and studies nutrition education programs for nutrition educators -- examined in depth an issue that emerged repeatedly during the workshop: the advantages and disadvantages of integrating nutrition education into the rest of the school curriculum versus a stand-alone curriculum on nutrition. With both options, nutrition and physical activity objectives and content first need to be developed, and then this content is aligned with existing education standards.
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From page 70...
... Requires dedicated lab space Finding teachers with nutrition training Questions of sustainability during budget cuts focus on education standards created by the legislation and provide credibility to the effort, an independent curriculum expert aligned the nutrition content with standards in mathematics, science, English, physical education, and health for each lesson. The result was a set of content standards identified in areas where there is state-mandated testing, and a set of challenge standards where local adoption of standards is optional.
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From page 71...
... Dietary Guidelines every 5 years, and the food guides developed to represent those guidelines to consumers. Eating recommendations have progressed from the basic four food groups to the food wheel to the food guide pyramid to MyPyramid to MyPlate, with concomitant changes in the recommended food group name and serving size of, for example, meat and beans.
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From page 72...
... . The study showed that nutrition education can improve academic performance measured by achievement of specific mathematics and English education standards (Shilts et al., 2009)
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