¶ … Teaching Plan: Reflection and Evaluation Summary of teaching plan

The topic of the presentation and instruction is heatstroke and other heat related causes of death. The teaching presentation was provided to staff at a Parks and Recreation department in the community, and plans are being made to conduct the teaching presentation at church communities in preparation for their vacation Bible school activities, at adult / child care centers that often plan outings for their program participants, and at health centers at Universities who are in a position to encounter university students who are suffering from a heat-related threats to their health.

The heat wave that occurred in western Europe in the summer of 2003 is a case study in the relation of social structure and cultural practices and the impact of a natural disaster on public health (Kopp, et al., 2015). Heat waves are more lethal to the poor who do not have air conditioning and the elderly who live alone and don't have much contact with others on a daily basis: these situations are characteristic of French family structure and culture (Kopp, et al., 2015). Elders were left in the cities without air-conditioning while their families and physicians vacationed on the coasts (Kopp, et al., 2015). This information about the somewhat unique public health policy and practice issues of the heat wave in France in 2003 ties to Alma Ata's Health for All Global Initiative to consider health "as a socio-economic issue and as a human right," and calls for "economic and social...

The objectives for this goal that are relevant to the proposed community teaching initiative are as follows: 1) Foster informed, empowered individuals and communities; 2) ensure situational awareness; 3) ensure timely and effective communications; 4) ensure prevention or mitigation of environmental and other emerging threats to health; 5) ensure that all systems that support national health security are based on the best available science, evaluation, and quality improvement.
The theory of learning to be utilized is constructivism, which holds that learning is an active and constructive process in which individuals construct or create their own subjective representation of some objective reality (Atherton, 2013). Prior and new information are integrated through activity, dialogical process, and experience (Atherton, 2013). The creative group activities that are used during the teaching presentation provide opportunity for the integration of active, cognitive, and relational features (Atherton, 2013). The participants will learn new facts about heat waves and apply it to their work in Parks and Recreation in order to ensure that people engage in physical activities safely, that they understand the danger of overheating during hot and human conditions, and with a healthy regard to the weather.

The primary learning objectives for the teaching presentation are as follows: 1) Parks & Recreation staff will be able to explain the dynamics of wet-bulb temperature by he end of the presentation; 2) Parks & Recreation staff will be able to list recent heat waves and the approximate number of people who died from heat-related causes during the heat waves by the end of…