Question

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If you were the next Community Health Nutritionist for the local colleges in the Brooklyn area, how would you prepare a workshop to discuss A Personal Plan: Making Informed Choices About Food

Answer 1

A workshop includes a series of educational and work sessions. A small number of people meet together over a short period of time to concentrate on a defined area of interest. A workshop must be interactive and it ensures the participation of delegates actively in learning new information or techniques. The workshop facilitator ensures that the audience or members participate actively.

Steps of conducting a workshop: planning, preparation, and implementation. It is important to follow up with participants to get feedback on the workshop.

PLANNING PHASE:

• Consider your topic
• Consider your audience.
• Known to unknown
• What is their understating of the topic?
• Select the workshop size.
• Plan based on the time available (Short workshop: 45-90 minutes, Medium-length workshop: 90 minutes to 3 hours, Long workshop: over 3 hours.)
• Vary activities.
• Consider the attention span:
• Plan a break.
• Set the objectives or the purpose of the workshop.
• Enhance current knowledge of the participant’s
• Solving practice and discussion
• Facilitation.
• Maintain consistency of presentation and the workshop's theme.
• Participation of the delegates.
• Entertaining and interactive activities.

PREPARATION PHASE

• Arrange everything you need.
• Make the materials as attractive and interesting as possible so that participants will return to them.
• Use audio-visual aids.

IMPLEMENTATION

Delivering of the incredibly organized workshop.

Introduction

The body of the workshop

Closure

Follow- up

Sample Outline and Schedule for a 120 ‐Minute Workshop

• 20 minutes Introductions: the importance of informed food selection, healthier choices, Presentation on informed choices of foods, importance of informed choices, right to make informed choices.

• 20 minutes(15 +5 minutes):- 15 minutes Discussion on informed choices about food
• The facilitator can control the discussion
• 5 : minutes: Recap: the discussion at the end

• 20 minutes: Presentation: How to get information about food choices.
• 30 minutes: Activity - Arrange food items and allowing the people to select them based on the information they obtained from the presentation.
• 5 minutes: Recap and discussion about the selected choices.
• 20 minutes: Relevant Video and Brief Discussion
• 10 minutes: Poster presentation on healthy choices of foods
• 10 minutes: Summarize Key Points and Plan Next Steps
• 120 minutes: You can modify for a shorter session, select the components that fit your schedule and needs