Teaching Plan Summary
In developing countries, Handwashing with Water and Soap (HWWS) is one of the most economical yet effective approaches to treating faecal-oral vectored diseases (Curtis, 2009). Consequently, a good HWWs campaign would benefit many in the society, especially school going children (Biran et al., 2009). The following paper will investigate teacher response to driving effective HWWS intervention in different schools across the globe (Xuan et al., 2013).
There are different HWWS campaigns going on in a wide variety of schools. These could range from in class lectures, advice from student advisors to talks during school meetings or common school meetings. Statistics show that HWWS promotional campaigns take place at least once a month for the entire school and at least once a week in each individual class.
According to the research, up to 35 HWWS promotional classes took place over the test period with up to 566 students in each of the four schools visited getting some leaflets to take home and share with their families.
During the intervention, we paid attention to a wide range of experiences and activities. At schools, observations were done on a total 15 HWWS activities and the gathered information placed on an observation sheet. The collected information cantered on:
HWWS methods used per each promotion session
The teacher and student reaction on the activity in general
After the convention, four focus group discussions with five teachers and eight students each were taken in for studying to help access the effectiveness of the convention and possible challenges that possibly made it less effective (Xuan et al., 2013).
The Epidemiological Rationale of the Topic
Several studies in the past show proof of multiple advantages on any school's hygiene efforts. These campaigns are not only effective but also accelerate the teaching by using the involved children as hygiene ambassadors in the community (UNICEF, 2010). Even though the HWWS promotion approach might vary from one institution to another, the results and search for solutions to uphold its effectiveness remain the same across the board (Xuan et al., 2013).
A recent study shows that in most developing communities, the effort to educate people on the benefits of HWWS heavily focuses on the entire community with very few campaigns going to schools (Vindigni, et al., 2011). A random clustered study on the feasibility of teaching HWWS to the community via schoolchildren proved viable when conducted on 87 Chinese primary schools (Bowen et al., 2011).
According to an elaborate formative research of 2008 on teachers, children and parents from six schools and 20 homes (Xuan & Hoat, 2013), hygiene patterns are more or less the same across the table. The most common findings included:
The use of pit latrines with limited after visit HWWS
Poor adherence to the wash hands before eating convention
Little or no access to clean drinking and cooking water
Limited know-how on the benefits of upholding high levels of personal hygiene
After conducting HWWS sessions in each of the schools, teachers identified with HWWS an ideal solution to some of the hygiene related complications in both the school and the society (Xuan et al., 2013).
An assessment of the teaching experience
According to the information gathered from all the children attending the HWWS workshop, it is clear that all of them enjoyed it regardless of their gender or age. All the children were willing to learn and gave ideal responses toward the whole HWWS concept. None of the students felt like the seminars were a bother or a waste of time.
This is evident in the quoted responses from different groups of the students picked to participate in the FGD aftermath. For instance, a group of 3rd grade students were of the opinion that
"The most impressive and exciting thing in the past month was the HW-with-soap exercise….There was nothing we did not understand….Nothing we disliked about the exercise." (Xuan et al., 2013)
The parents involved in the report did not report any dislike on the convention at all. They all embraced HWWS as one of the most ideal ways to deal with the health of their children both in school and at home. During an interview, a grade 3 student's parents admitted that:
"HWWS is needed because we are afraid of dirt, disease and contamination. HWWS is good, we all know….HWWS is very essential because it helps us to prevent disease; HWWS also helps to protect us against environmental pollution (Xuan et al., 2013)
The teachers, on the other hand, were highly...
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