Educating for Health: Teaching Plan for General Adults

This essay discusses the importance of health education and the development of a teaching plan for general adults. It covers the assessment of learning needs, content, structure, and delivery of the teaching plan, and evaluation methods.

Module title: Educating for Health
Summative Assessment 1
Assessment topic: (example: Educative workshop on how to
achieve good health by following healthy diet and exercise
regime
Summative Essay (2,500 words)
plus Appendix [the Teaching Plan (500 words)]
(no word count for references)
UWL ID:
Submission date:

1. Introduction
Health education plays an important role in educating people about health. It can be
defined as the principal through which individual or large population to behave for
promoting restoration of health. Teaching plan in health can help individual or large
population to learn about the benefit of taking in every single food for their better
health. Health education plays an important role in promotion better health for the
individual or large population. This can help to understand the importance of health
and influence everyone to promote and acquire better health. It also provide the
understanding and knowledge about good health due to having quality meal. This
essay is focused on general adult aged (more than 18 years) should take nutritional
food for their proper growth and development and better health. In this essay there is
discussion about understanding about the nature of learning and communicating
which can help to support teaching method related with health that can be used
across the lifespan. In health care setting, this can provide the ability for the chosen
group to focus on their better health by taking effective meal. There is also
discussion about content, structure and delivery of teaching plan which can be used
for apply to communicate their strategy for health promotion within individual or large
population. There is also discussion about evaluation of educational approach which
can meet the need of individual and large population for their better health (Kerner,
(2017)).
2. Background
Health education refers to a social science that is drawn from environmental,
biological, physical, psychological and Medical Sciences for promoting better health
and preventing disability, disease and premature death. Health education plays an
important role in providing understanding and knowledge about mental, physical,
social and emotional health. It is also able to motivate individual for improve and
maintain their health and prevent various diseases to reduce their risk of ill health. It
is focused on mental, emotional and social health too. Nature of teaching and
learning can provide individuals or large populations with an understanding about
maintaining their health in better way. It also provide their understanding of how to
manage and improve their health for preventing ill health and live a better quality of
life. General adult should have the understanding and knowledge about their health
and the way through which they can maintain their better health and well-being for
the setting our community. There are various importance of using a structured
approach and conducting learning needs assessment for developing and delivering
teaching plan and evaluation of teaching plan. These plays an important role in the
learning and teaching individual or large population about better health and well-
being (Johnston, (2018)).
3. Discussion
3.1 Assessment of learning needs of the chosen group
Critical health literacy refers to an understanding about skill to take action for
improved health on individual or community level. This can help to understand the
benefit and improve better life. Accessing of learning study focus on the opportunity
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for the general adult to evaluate themself for making decisions and judgment for their
improved health. It also provide a lot of opportunities to develop skill and understand
the benefit of health. It also provide the understanding and learning about the topic
and help in progress to understand nature and to fight with difficulty (Chan, (2017)).
There are various benefits of assessing learning needs. It can able to provide
learning goal which can help general adult to learn about the way to apply strategy
and plan for their health improvement. It can also enhance the learning and
understanding about the performing different activities which can be help to improve
health of the individual or large population. It also help to self-regulate about the
understanding for performing and focusing on improved health. It also allowed
deciding the delivering of learning to the general adult group. Learning need
assessment should be undertaken and by creating awareness and to analyse the
interest of individual or their improved health. Assessing learning need can help to
inform the development of a teaching plan (Broglia, (2018)). This can also help to
structure and deliver awareness about the health to promote education about health.
This can help to improve and inform the development of teaching plan. Assessing
learning need help to develop a teaching plan by providing information about the
need of learning in the area where teaching plan should be highly implemented for
better development and to influence general adult about better health and well-being.
Teaching plan is highly important because it provide the overall understanding
and planning to delivered the knowledge to the large population. It have the strategy
which can be utilized for delivering knowledge and understanding about the related
topic. For the individual and general adult group. There is need to create awareness
about health and related education that can help to promote better health and tail or
for teaching plan for meeting the need through creating awareness (Pang, (2018)).
Teaching plan is highly important for delivering and implementing learning and
knowledge to the large population of general adult. It help to implement the teaching
plan statistically which can be accessed by general adult and to understand about
the importance by the help of teaching plan. General adults can get excited and
motivated to get education for their better health. This can help to tailor the teaching
plan for meeting the need of general adult group. Aim of the teaching is to provide
education and understanding about the importance of good health. Teaching plans
have the objective to deliver knowledge and learning about the benefit of improved
health for the individual or large population which can influence for better health .
There is need to tailor the teaching plan in such a way that general adult can get the
learning and education about health in a specific way. This can help to meet the
need of chosen group (Nagge, (2017)).
3.2 Content, structure, and delivery of the teaching plan
Cooperative learning method has been used as the teaching plan because
this method can encourage student to learn about maintaining better health by
working together. This can help to promote a small group or whole class activities.
This is the method in which verbally expression of different ideas from different
student. This can help to develop self-confidence between general adult and
enhance communication along with thinking skill which can help a them to
understand the knowledge and benefit of being healthy. With the help of different
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short drama sketches, it can help to understand and provide the learning for
cooperative learning with classroom lesson. To promote health education,
cooperative learning has been utilized in the healthcare setting to promote and
educated general adult about the health education. This can be beneficial in creating
awareness about the health education and its benefit throughout the life . It can also
help to develop a teaching plan by performing effectively deliver education and
create awareness within a general adult. With the help of drama and conducting
scientific experiments which can help to provide better teaching and educate general
adult for better health. Scientific based experiment is the key learning which can help
a teacher to inform the development in the teaching plan. This is highly beneficial
and can help in general adult to influence for getting health education.
Communication theory and approaches have provided the delivery of teaching plan.
Communication theory plays an important role in the process of delivery awareness
and sharing of information (Tria, (2020)). Communication theories have the
importance for effectively delivery of information or knowledge through one person to
another. This can be highly beneficial sharing of information and importance of
health benefit to the general adults. This can help to get the information about the
health related benefit that should be influence general adult for there better and
improved health.
Theories can enhance learning effectively to provide knowledge to practical.
There are different theories and model of learning which can explain effective
learning and teaching data constructivist approach, Anderson model, learner based
model etc. Constructivist approach related with the theory which is based on the
principal that any individual can learn the knowledge on experience and prior
knowledge related with concern topic. This can help and to obtain passive lecture
and memorization. Constructivist approaches facilitate learning process which can
oppose to provide direct instruction to the individual. This is the approach which
promotes the diversity along with the different culture due to having student-centered
by involving learning process using senses. Constructivist curriculum provide
previous knowledge which can allow individual to deliver knowledge for longer time
and enable to deliver crucial information related with health education to the general
adults (Megawati, (2018)). This involve group work for delivering opportunity to share
ideas, gain information and knowledge together. This theory also lead to frustration
and confusion in learning to establish abstract and relationship between current
knowledge and prior knowledge. The constructivist principal can be beneficial and
require more structure and evaluation for effective progress. It provide the
understanding about continuous process and there can be chance of lack of
confidence when general adult are learning new concept. This is the theory and
which acknowledging knowledge which have a dependency about creating
knowledge by own-self. This is related with own perspective and based on
discussion. Discovery thought activity idea for enabling student learning activity. This
approach can help to understand learning and provide help in teaching to general
adult (Mukhalalati, (2019)). Communication theory also plays an important role for
delivering effective communication with the individual for delivering positive
understanding of the delivered theory. This can help to attain positive attitude and
behavior with in general adult group related with health education. With the help of
this theory, it can create change in understanding and knowledge of the individual or
general adult group which can directly impact the attitude and behaviour towards the
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health and should focus on maintaining better and effective health.
3.3 Evaluation of the teaching plan
Evaluation of teaching plan is highly important because it can provide
feedback about the implementation and effectiveness of the teaching plan.
Evaluation can help to understand about the performance for delivery health
education to the general adults. Evaluating Method can help to understand and
provide the opportunity to improve their strategy that can be highly beneficial for
delivering health education to the general adults for their improved and better health .
Elevation plays an important role for providing information about how to implement
the strategy that teaching plan should be implemented in a effective way (Vallberg
(2020)). It also provide guidance and key factor that can be highly beneficial while
implementing teaching plan for delivering better learning and knowledge to the
general adult about health education. Evaluation allows individual to deliver
systematic way to apply teaching plan to the general adult for improving learning and
knowledge related with health education. Evaluation also allows individual to improve
their practice and develop reflective habit that can help to deliver and make effective
teaching plan and for general adult related with health education. This is the
evaluation method which can include a faculty employing and delivering learning
strategy which can help general adult for practice the concept which they are
learning. It also provide individuals to ask about feedback of the curriculum and
provide instruction to evaluate the effectiveness of teaching plan. It can deliver
learning and knowledge to general adult about the health education (Donga, (2021)).
Benefit of outcome assessment method is chosen for the evaluation and is
highly beneficial that can provide systematically collection for improving on the basis
of feedback. Benefit of outcome assessment can able to provide various information
related with the response of teaching plan which have their response as an benefit
outcome. This is highly beneficial and can help to deliver better health and health
education to the general adult and effective and for improved health. It also promote
the outcome assessment is providing the learning a strategy to learn different
principle and concept while receiving information or data. This is the method which is
difficult to implement due to requirement of curriculum objective to focus on student
and what individual in trying to deliver. It has been evaluated that outcome
assessment is an important approach which can focus on making a strategy that
how and what general adult should learn about health education. Community,
healthcare site, Healthcare premises are some of the setting where health education
should be promoted and delivered education that can help to create awareness in
general adult related with health education. It can also allows developing teaching
plan by utilizing this on worksite, schools or seminars which is associated with
implementation of teaching plan on a large scale. It can allows to improve health and
making effective decision making that could fight against disease and can allowed to
utilize all the resources efficiently to fight with misconceptions (Bui, (2021)). It
promote health education related with creating awareness and for better delivery of
healthcare services.
4. Conclusion
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From above discussion, it can be concluded that health education plays an
important role for individual health and well-being. Health education can allows
individual to a stay healthy and live a quality of life. It also influence individual to
maintain their healthy lifestyle and to reduce the risk of illness and improving quality
of life. Health educator are one of the most important individual who can deliver
knowledge and information about the health education. They are the one who
promote a health education which help to improve the quality of life of large
population for improved health. It can provide high benefit to the large population by
guidance and providing information about the specification of health education.
There is high value of theory in higher health education. It can help to promote health
education by creating a strategy and implement effectively that it can allows
individual to reach up to a large population for creating awareness about the health
education. Health communication also important for effectively delivering of
knowledge and learning to the large population that it could influence them to
maintain their healthy lifestyle with the help of health education.
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APPENDIX
APPENDIX – TEACHING PLAN
Activity Plan for an activity or teaching session
Title: Health education
Subject/topic: Creating Health education
awareness
Room: Time:
Teacher: YOUR NAME Date:
Topic: How to maintain health education in delivering effective learning about the better
health.
By the end of the session students should be able to:
 To understand the importance of health education and its benefits to the specific
chosen group in the setting.
 To provide the information about the different values and importance of health
education and its specification.
 To acknowledge about the healthy lifestyle and knowledge to apply it in life for better
quality of life.
Class profile (including individual students’ specific need):
 Improve the skills and learning activity for improved health and implement in
regular lifestyle.
 Health education help to improve the quality of life by implementing better
deliver of care to the better health.
Health and Safety considerations:
 Individual should focus on delivery better education about safety at the
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work place to reduce the chance of risk of life and to promote healthy and
effective workplace.
 There is need for proper exercise and physical activity which can help to
regulate a healthy lifestyle.
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