Approved for CFLE Continuing Education Credit (1 Contact Hour/.1 CEU)

Date and Time:

Thursday, October 4, 2012 - 4-5:30 PM EDT.

More than 1,000 students from foreign countries enter U.S. schools every day.  Our nation is growing more and more culturally and linguistically diverse each day…..creating both a challenge and an opportunity for FCS teachers to be agents of change, and the FCS classroom to be a model for healthy living.

At the same time, guidelines for living a healthy lifestyle are constantly changing as we absorb new research developments and learn more about the adolescent brain and human behavior.  As a result, professionals often have difficulty keeping pace with the changes, let alone applying it to our classrooms.

This webinar will bring you up to date and offer you powerful and effective methods for teaching your students why it is important to build a healthy lifestyle and how they can do it within their own social and cultural framework.  From research-based nutrition information to model lesson plans and culturally responsive activities, you will come away with a wide range of resources that you can put to use right away.

Objectives:

• Identify social and cultural factors that influence healthy lifestyle choices.
• Determine ways to showcase the healthy lifestyle information within classrooms, schools, and communities.
• Develop an understanding of how problem solving can help individuals make healthy lifestyle choices.
• Create and apply healthy choices within the classroom related to healthy lifestyle choices.

Target Audience:

Educators

FLE Content Areas Covered:

• Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
• Human Growth and Development
• Family Resource Management
• Parent Education and Guidance
• Family Life Education Methodology

Sponsored By:

American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences - www.aafcs.org