Readiness for Learning
Many people living in Alamosa, Colorado have prioritized a healthy lifestyle to avoid getting diseases, such as obesity. They live under a special diet and carry out exercises to stay fit. The community needs to be informed and updated on how to avoid getting diseases such as obesity that come with various risk factors, such as heart diseases, osteoarthritis, type 2 diabetes, stroke, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and sleep apnea. The community should be empowered with knowledge on the causes and effects of obesity on the human body. They should be advised on how to live a healthy lifestyle. This is the only way in which they can stay healthy and avoid getting various diseases that come with obesity. Obesity is also an expensive disease to treat. According to 2008 health statistics conducted in Alamosa, Colorado, an estimated cost of $ 29 billion was spent on medical costs to treat obese people. One-third of the population is obese with the majority being adults (Maurer & Smith 2009). These harsh statistics of those diagnosed with obesity in Alamosa County encourage many people to take control of the situation by teaching people how to live a healthy lifestyle to avoid being obese.
Planned Evaluation of Objectives
To evaluate effectiveness, the people of Alamosa County have to keep track of what they consume daily and ensure that they exercise daily to burn all the unnecessary fats in the body and maintain fitness. They should reduce the consumption of food high in sugars and fats but increase the consumption level of food with fiber (Levy-Navarro 2008). Follow-up calls should be conducted on the clients to ensure that they live a healthy life every single day. They will discuss how important physical exercise and proper dieting are to their health. The client should have excellent knowledge about diet quality and how it can help to reduce cholesterol levels in the body. After every month, the cholesterol level of the clients will be redrawn to check with the previous cholesterol readings. This will show whether the clients are following instructions by maintaining a healthy lifestyle. The clients should keep a record of their daily activities to enable them to save time and be organized. After one month, the activities and the effects that they have on the client’s health and wellness will be discussed (Fumento 1997).
Planned Evaluation of Goal
When the goals have been set, the evaluation process can be conducted to ensure positive results and effectiveness. The Alamosa community should own the program if they want the teaching plan to be successful for the entire society. They should determine how the members of the program can be involved in the lesson. Follow-up calls should be done daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly to evaluate whether the program is successful and to ensure that the clients maintain a healthy lifestyle. The clients should be given a chance to come back to the gyms to exercise after the program ends.
Planned Evaluation of Lesson and Teacher
Self-evaluation is important both for the teacher and the lesson. The evaluation mainly entails an understanding of the lesson. Self-evaluation will enable the teacher to know whether the program is successful or not. Educators will be able to know whether the clients clearly understand the learning objectives, whether they identify the major concepts taught during the lesson, especially physical exercise, and lastly whether their verbal information supplements the visual models by checking on their weight and cholesterol level in the body (Kolata 2007). At the end of the program, the clients can be offered a written evaluation.
References
Fumento, M. (1997). The Fat of the Land: Our Health Crises and How Overweight Americans Can Help Themselves. New York: Penguin Books.
Kolata, G. (2007). Rethinking Thin: The new science of weight loss and the myths and realities of dieting. California: Sage Publications Inc.
Levy-Navarro, E. (2008). The Culture of Obesity in Early and Late Modernity. Palgrave: Macmillan Publishers.
Maurer, F. & Smith, C. (2009). Community/Public health nursing practice: Health for families and populations. St. Louis: Saunders/Elsevier.