Nutrition Education in the K-12 Curriculum The Role of National Standards: Workshop Summary (2013) / Chapter Skim
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1 Introduction and Themes of the Workshop
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would constitute a critical step in achieving this recommendation. National nutrition education curriculum standards could have a variety of benefits, including the following: 1 he T planning committee's role was limited to planning the workshop, and the workshop summary has been prepared by the workshop rapporteurs, with the assistance of Institute of Medicine (IOM)
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However, none of these recommendations, including those summarized below from the closing session, should be seen as consensus recommendations of the workshop. Following this introductory chapter, which provides background and introduces the main themes of the workshop, Chapter 2 describes the current opportunity to move forward on the development and implementation of national nutrition education curriculum standards.
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THE USE OF THE TERM "STANDARDS" The United States has been pursuing a standards-based vision of education reform for almost three decades. The 1994 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act mandated the establishment of rigorous content standards for all students and assessments to measure students' progress in meeting the standards (Improving America's Schools Act of 1994, P.L.
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However, the term should be interpreted broadly and does not imply a specific approach to nutrition education. SUMMARY OF WORKSHOP THEMES In the final session of the workshop, Katie Wilson, executive director of the National Food Service Management Institute at the University of Mississippi, reviewed some of the most important points made during the workshop.
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The people involved in that organization and similar organizations are "already doing it, and they're doing it in their districts with their district culture." Nutrition expertise also needs to be leveraged, given the scope of the changes that are necessary. For example, the National Food Service Management Institute, which provides education, training, technical assistance, and research in school nutrition, uses a train-the-trainer model to multiply impact, which Wilson recommended.
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These could be compiled, compared, and mined for valuable information and approaches, with the National Agricultural Library serving as a portal for wide dissemination. More science-based evidence from studies on the effectiveness of various nutrition education curricula is needed to know how best to move forward.
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