Teacher Role
The ultimate goal of Refresh.ED is to increase knowledge and skills in nutrition, healthy eating and related food literacy amongst Western Australian school children.
Teachers have a critical role to help children understand and motivate interest in healthy eating. Most important, teachers can provide a learning environment that develops children’s knowledge, skills and enthusiasm for making healthy choices.
The key objectives are to:
- Increase teachers’ awareness of and positive attitudes towards their potential role in facilitating children’s healthy eating in the school environment;
- Increase teachers’ positive attitudes towards and involvement in healthy eating, food selection and food preparation related classroom activities for children;
- Increase the proportion of teachers incorporating nutrition, healthy eating, food selection and food preparation into curriculum and school-based activities
- Increase children’s knowledge about food, nutrition and healthy eating
The aim of the Refresh.Ed website is to increase the availability of quality materials/resources that will support the incorporation of nutrition and food related issues into multiple teaching areas;
- Increase the proportion of teachers who:
- Are able to access materials/resources to support the incorporation of nutrition and food related issues into multiple teaching areas;
- Are aware of the importance of healthy eating for children’s health and development and have positive attitudes towards their potential role in promoting and facilitating this;
- Report having the confidence and skills to include food and nutrition into curriculum and classroom activities; and
- Trial including food and nutrition –related issues into curriculum and classroom activities; and
- Increase the proportion of children who are exposed to classroom activities designed to improve their knowledge about food, nutrition and healthy eating