Teens as Teachers: Positive Outcomes and Recommendations for Promoting Healthy Nutrition in Adolescents
The prevalence of overweight and obese status in adolescence points to a need to identify and broadly disseminate effective approaches promoting healthy eating. One promising approach engages teens as teachers to implement a nutrition education curriculum for younger youth. This article highlights q...
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| author | Elizabeth H. Weybright AnaMaria Diaz Martinez Gary Varrella Mary Katherine Deen Kevin Wright |
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| description | The prevalence of overweight and obese status in adolescence points to a need to identify and broadly disseminate effective approaches promoting healthy eating. One promising approach engages teens as teachers to implement a nutrition education curriculum for younger youth. This article highlights qualitative evaluation results of a cross-age peer-teaching program on teen teachers. Results strengthen our knowledge base of cross-age peer teaching and inform policy and practice implications. Teens experienced greater internalization of curriculum content as evidenced by increased knowledge, improved behaviors, and overcoming barriers to healthy eating. These findings are grounded in social learning theory. To disseminate cross-age peer teaching within youth-serving organizations, we recommend the use of an evidence-based framework to guide program implementation and the development of policy to ensure intentional teen teaching opportunities. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-50763c63f492407d8bb85c208fb5c6742024-02-03T02:12:13ZengClemson University PressJournal of Youth Development2325-40172018-09-01133436010.5195/jyd.2018.595510Teens as Teachers: Positive Outcomes and Recommendations for Promoting Healthy Nutrition in AdolescentsElizabeth H. Weybright0AnaMaria Diaz Martinez1Gary Varrella2Mary Katherine Deen3Kevin Wright4Washington State UniversityWashington State UniversityWashington State UniversityWashington State UniversityWashington State UniversityThe prevalence of overweight and obese status in adolescence points to a need to identify and broadly disseminate effective approaches promoting healthy eating. One promising approach engages teens as teachers to implement a nutrition education curriculum for younger youth. This article highlights qualitative evaluation results of a cross-age peer-teaching program on teen teachers. Results strengthen our knowledge base of cross-age peer teaching and inform policy and practice implications. Teens experienced greater internalization of curriculum content as evidenced by increased knowledge, improved behaviors, and overcoming barriers to healthy eating. These findings are grounded in social learning theory. To disseminate cross-age peer teaching within youth-serving organizations, we recommend the use of an evidence-based framework to guide program implementation and the development of policy to ensure intentional teen teaching opportunities.http://jyd.pitt.edu/ojs/jyd/article/view/595teens as teachersnutritionyouth–adult partnershipssocial cognitive theory |
| spellingShingle | Elizabeth H. Weybright AnaMaria Diaz Martinez Gary Varrella Mary Katherine Deen Kevin Wright Teens as Teachers: Positive Outcomes and Recommendations for Promoting Healthy Nutrition in Adolescents Journal of Youth Development teens as teachers nutrition youth–adult partnerships social cognitive theory |
| title | Teens as Teachers: Positive Outcomes and Recommendations for Promoting Healthy Nutrition in Adolescents |
| title_full | Teens as Teachers: Positive Outcomes and Recommendations for Promoting Healthy Nutrition in Adolescents |
| title_fullStr | Teens as Teachers: Positive Outcomes and Recommendations for Promoting Healthy Nutrition in Adolescents |
| title_full_unstemmed | Teens as Teachers: Positive Outcomes and Recommendations for Promoting Healthy Nutrition in Adolescents |
| title_short | Teens as Teachers: Positive Outcomes and Recommendations for Promoting Healthy Nutrition in Adolescents |
| title_sort | teens as teachers positive outcomes and recommendations for promoting healthy nutrition in adolescents |
| topic | teens as teachers nutrition youth–adult partnerships social cognitive theory |
| url | http://jyd.pitt.edu/ojs/jyd/article/view/595 |
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