Community Teaching Plan on Primary Prevention and Health Promotion

Community Teaching Plan
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Institutional Affiliate
Community Teaching Plan
Planning and Topic: Primary Prevention/Health Promotion
Planning Before Teaching:
Name and Credentials of Teacher:

Estimated Time Teaching Will Last:
Approximately 60 minutes or I hour

Location of Teaching:
Elementary School Setting

Supplies, Material, Equipment Needed:
Handwashing Handbook, Manila paper, posters, markers, Chalk, projector, and a laptop

Estimated Cost:
The schools or selected elementary schools will provide the projector, and thus, approximately $100 will account for all the other materials.

Community and Target Aggregate: Preschoolers and Grade 1, 2, and 3 learners

Topic: Hand washing is an effective preventive intervention against the spread of communicable diseases

Identification of Focus for Community Teaching
The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic shed light on the importance of personal hygiene, with handwashing being one of the proposed ways of managing the spread of the deadly virus. The focus of handwashing is to teach preschoolers, 1st graders, 2nd graders, and 3rd graders how to wash and clean their hands towards preventing and reducing the spread of germs and other infectious diseases—normalizing proper handwashing at an early age among children’s functions to offset the spread of communicable diseases with the magnitude witnessed in the emergence of COVID-19.
Epidemiological Rationale for Topic
Normalizing the act of washing hands among young children from the ages of 3 to 9 is essential for promoting the health and wellbeing of the community as a whole. It is, therefore, important to teach the young children in communities how to wash and clean their hands properly to reduce the contamination of germs while equally preventing the spread of contagious infections and communicable diseases. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), contagious diseases such as diarrhea account for the death of approximately 1.8 million children below the age of 5 years annually CITATION Cen18 \l 1033 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2018). CDC also purports that proper washing of hands among children prevents the spread of respiratory diseases in 1 out of 5 children CITATION Cen18 \l 1033 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2018). Proper handwashing further accounts for preventing the spread of diarrhea infection in 1 out of 3 children and reduces absenteeism from school due to gastrointestinal complications by nearly 57% every year CITATION Cen18 \l 1033 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2018).
Teaching Plan Criteria
An integrated teaching criterion will apply for an easier understanding of the essence of proper handwashing practice and procedure. First and foremost, students will be allowed to showcase their handwashing skills or training, followed by a video clip on the importance of washing and cleaning hands. The use of other visual aids such as charts and diagrams depicting the negative effects of not washing hands properly will be showcased for their understanding. The final assessment will be the practical application of proper handwashing techniques taugh...