Educating for Health: Teaching Plan for General Adults

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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