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Research conducted by the American Medical Association
and the World Health Organization reveal that those with
limited literacy, including immigrants from non-English
speaking countries, and those living at or near poverty
levels are more likely to suffer from poor health and nutrition
because of their limited access to health related information.
Furthermore, poor health interferes with the success of
adult English language learners (ELLs) as they strive to
achieve better literacy.
This web-based training is designed to arm you as a provider
of Adult English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL)
with strategies, information and resources that will help
you to help your English language learners take care of
their health. Topics you can use to help your learners include:
- Access to health services.
- Preventive health and nutrition.
- The basics - health vocabulary; making appointments, visiting the doctor and describing symptoms
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- Preparing learners for talking with the doctor
about medication and understanding medicine labels.
- Strategies That Work - Learner-centered
approaches and communicative strategies for teaching
health literacy.
- From the Web to the Classroom - special
sections in each module provide photocopiable lesson
plans and activities for classroom use.
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To complete this web-based training, you will need to:
- Review the section on Inservice Points and the requirements necessary to obtain your inservice points.
- Login - This is required if you are planning to receive inservice points. If you do not wish to receive inservice points, or if you are
a visitor from another state, please login as a guest.
- Complete the pretest.
- Work through each component of Teaching Health Literacy
to Adult English Language Learners, completing the
bulletin board activities where required.
- Print the activities and lesson plans at each From
the Web to the Classroom link. Make sure that you
have a manila folder handy in which to save these items
for later use in your classroom. Some of these lesson
plans or activities require a bulletin board response
so that you can share your own ideas with other training
participants. Look for the bulletin board icon.
- Read the sections entitled, Strategies that Work,
which introduce effective ESOL methods and approaches
in the context of teaching health literacy topics. Some
of these require follow-up bulletin board activities.
- Complete the post test and evaluation. Your answers will be sent to the Department of Education and your
certificate of completion will be forwarded to you from there. The evaluation of Teaching Health Literacy
to Adult ESOL Learners is a required part of the inservice documentation.
Now that you understand the web-based training process, there are three things that you need to do before you begin.
First, if you wish to earn inservice points, login by your region. If you do not wish to earn inservice points,
but just wish to visit the site and obtain useful information about teaching health literacy to ELLs, then please login as a guest.
Next, local school districts or community colleges must do the actual awarding of the inservice points. As an adult
ESOL educator, you must include this web-based training program as part of an approved inservice component in your
district's or community college's Master Inservice Plan.
Each district or college may have slightly different procedures
for awarding inservice points. You will need to check with
the appropriate staff person at your institution to complete
the required procedures. The link below should provide you
with the information you need.
For information on receiving inservice points for this training
component, click here: Inservice Points. (Word Doc)
Finally, don't forget to have a manila folder handy to save items that you print for later use in the classroom. Label the folder Teaching Health Literacy.
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To assist you with this project, print this Online Activity Checklist (pdf) to keep track of activities you've completed within this Web-based Training. |
Now, you're
ready to take the Pre-Test!
Click the "Pre-Test" button below to proceed.
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