Engaging Adult Learners in Nutrition Education
This course is designed to equip you with practical strategies to engage adult learners in various nutrition education settings, including pantries, nutrition demonstrations, and Cooking Matters lessons.
Before we get started, let’s see what you already know about engaging learners in nutrition education. This is a chance to see how your knowledge grows as you progress through the course.
Answers the questions, proceeding by clicking the next button or the dots at the bottom.
Course Objectives
Now that that is out of the way, let’s go over the course objectives! By the end of this course, you should be able to:
- Understand and apply principles of adult learning to create engaging nutrition education experiences.
- Demonstrate skills to set up and facilitate welcoming, inclusive environments in nutrition education settings.
- Utilize tools and strategies to encourage interaction, discussion, and behavior change during lessons.
- Effectively handle common questions, concerns, and sensitive topics with empathy and professionalism.
- Evaluate their engagement techniques to continuously improve participant outcomes.
FAQ
We estimate 1 hour. It may take you a little more or less. This is a self paced course that you can stop and come back to whenever you need.
There are lessons, topics, and activities. Lessons are the steps. The material within each lesson is a topic. There are also activities built-in. The course is linear, and you will need to complete everything in each lesson before it allows you to move on using the next lesson button. Click the first bullet in the activity box to get started in the lesson.
We recommend using a computer to take the course. It will be easier to view the documents embedded into the pages.
Yes! You can visit the appendix page here to view the resources in one location.
