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Health Literacy Class Schedule
What: Health Literacy Classes
When: Every Thursday evening (5:30 – 7 pm) from February 9 to March 22
Where: Utah Valley Regional Medical Center, Northwest Plaza (1034 North 500 West, Provo)
Schedule:
Thursday, February 9, UVRMC Classroom #5, Reading Labels and Measuring
Thursday, February 16, UVRMC Classroom #5, Emergency Care and Health Insurance
Thursday, February 23, UVRMC Classroom #6, Prenatal & Maternal Health
Thursday, March 1, UVRMC Classroom #5, Chronic Disease
Thursday, March 8, UVRMC Classroom #5, Medicine
Thursday, March 15, UVRMC Classroom #1, Nutrition
Thursday, March 22, UVRMC Classroom TBA, Regular Check Ups and Health History Forms
Online Game Teaching Financial Responsibility
The National Center for Family Literacy has released a new online tool to recreate the experience of shopping in a real store and encourage children to learn while shopping. Created in partnership with the Dollar General Literacy Foundation, “A Day at Dollar General: Learn While Shopping” makes learning financial responsibility and budgeting fun and engaging.
By expanding the definition of literacy to include smart financial habits, NCFL and the Dollar General Literacy Foundation are teaching children to make informed spending decisions that will help them reach their goals.
“A Day at Dollar General: Learn While Shopping” is tailored to families and children, providing them with a fun and interactive game that teaches good spending habits. The game has four sections that are quick and easy to complete. The subjects covered by the game are:
- Budgeting—teaches children to identify the difference between wants and needs and manage expenses within a certain income.
- Planning a shopping trip—encourages families to get in the habit of reading store advertisements, collecting coupons and making shopping lists to avoid impulse buys.
- Spending wisely—shares smart shopping strategies such as taking advantage of store specials and comparison shopping.
- Managing money—stresses the importance of factoring price into purchasing decisions and offers tips to make and reach long-term savings goals.
Families can complete the game in their homes or as part of a family-focused learning program, giving parents a forum to develop a deeper understanding of their own finances and share the lesson of smart money management with their kids in an engaging way. NCFL and the
Dollar General Literacy Foundation expect to update the game on an ongoing basis to encourage sustained learning as children grow and face new and more difficult financial decisions.
Tutor Tip: SQ3R
Survey, Question, Read, Recite and Review
SQ3R (Robinson, 1970) is a method for active elaboration of material that you read, say in a textbook. It consists of 5 steps. I’ll talk in terms of a chapter from the text, but this can be adapted to almost anything.
1. Survey (1 minute): Before beginning reading, look through the whole chapter. See what the headings are—the major ones and the subheadings; hierarchical structures seem to be particularly easy for our brains to latch onto—check for introductory and summary paragraphs, references, etc. Resist reading at this point, but see if you can identify 3 to 6 major ideas in the chapter.
2. Question (usually less than 30 seconds): Ask yourself what this chapter is about: What is the question that this chapter is trying to answer? Or—along the curiosity lines—What question do I have that this chapter might help answer? Repeat this process with each subsection of the chapter, as well, turning each heading into a question.
3. Read (slower for some of us than others!): Read one section at a time looking for the answer to the question proposed by the heading! This is active reading and requires concentration so find yourself a place and time where you can concentrate.
4. Recite/write (about a minute): Say to yourself (I do this out loud so I have to study where I don’t embarrass myself) or write down (I sometimes do this in the margins of the book itself) a key phrase that sums up the major point of the section and answers the question. It is important to use your own words, not just copy a phrase from the book. Research shows that we remember our own (active) connections better
than ones given to us (passive), indeed that our own hierarchies are generally better than the
best prefab hierarchies.
5. Review (less than 5 minutes): After repeating steps 2–4 for each section you have a list of key phrases that provides a sort of outline for the chapter. Test yourself by covering up the key phrases and seeing if you can recall them. Do this right after you finish reading the chapter. If you can’t recall one of your major points, that’s a section you need to reread. This method works. It works for me and it has worked for many students in the past.
Reference: Robinson, Francis Pleasant. (1970) Effective study (4th ed.). New York: Harper & Row.
Adapted from http://www.ic.arizona.edu/ic/wrightr/other/sq3r.html