Nutrition Learning Packages (WHO, 1989, 170 pages)

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Preface

Acknowledgements

Sources of materials contained in the Nutrition Learning Packages

How to use the Nutrition Learning Packages: A guide for trainers

The learning package approach

Your role as a trainer of community health workers

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What do trainees need to know?

How do people learn?

How can you help people learn?

Providing a good learning experience for trainees

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1. Organizing the lessons or training sessions

2. Choosing appropriate training methods

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(a) Giving a talk or lecture

(b) Giving a demonstration

Outline for planning a demonstration

(c) Role-playing

(d) Games

(e) Visual aids

(f) Stories

(g) Other aids to teaching

3. Leading discussion

4. Reinforcing learning

5. Evaluating the trainees' learning

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Example checklist

6. Evaluating your performance as a trainer

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(a) Self-evaluation

(b) Evaluation by another trainer

(c) Evaluation by the trainees

Adapting the Nutrition Learning Packages

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Pretesting the materials

How do you choose a translator?

How can you use drawings and pictures?

Glossary

Resource list for training

Resource materials for learning

Nutrition Learning Package 1: Getting to know the community

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How to use the materials in nutrition learning package

IA Introducing yourself to others

IB Learning about the community

IC Looking at different food problems and their causes

ID Choosing which problems to attack and how (developing a Community Nutrition Plan)

IE Looking at community leadership

Nutrition Learning Package 2: MEASURING GROWTH

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How to use the materials in Nutrition Learning Package 2

2A Why do we weigh babies?

2B Learning to use growth charts

2C Learning to understand growth charts

2D The WHO prototype growth chart

2E The arm tape

2F Weighing children

Nutrition Learning Package 3: BREAST FEEDING

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How to use the materials in Nutrition Learning Package 3

3A Messages for mothers

3B Suggestions for group activities on breast-feeding

3C Questions to help get group discussion started

3D Breast feeding questionnaire

3E Nutrition snakes and ladders game

Nutrition Learning Package 4: FEEDING YOUNG CHILDREN

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How to use the materials in Nutrition Learning Package 4

4A Feeding a young baby

4B Planning meals using the multi-mix principle

4C Using the multi-mix principle for weaning

4D Making and storing safe weaning foods

4E Picture recipes

4F Some ways to store foods to keep them cool and clean

Nutrition Learning Package 5: NUTRITION OF MOTHERS

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How to use the materials in Nutrition Learning Package 5

5A Nutrition during pregnancy and breast-feeding

5B Food habits chart

5C Good care begins before a baby is born

5D How to identify undernourished pregnant women

Nutrition Learning Package 6: NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCIES

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How to use the materials in Nutrition Learning Package 6

6A How can you tell whether a child is becoming weak and thin?

6B Why do children become weak and thin?

6C Making sure a child does not become weak and thin

6D A community nutrition graph

6E Checking for anaemia

6F Checking a child for nutritionat blindness

Nutrition Learning Package 7: NUTRITION DURING DIARRHOEA AND OTHER INFECTIONS

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How to use the materials in Nutrition Learning Package 7

7A What is diarrhoea and what causes it?

7B Why is diarrhoea dangerous?

7C How can a community health worker prevent diarrhoea and other inflections?

7D Care and treatment of children who have diarrhoea

7E Nutrition and infections

Nutrition Learning Package 8: COMMUNICATING NUTRITION MESSAGES

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How to use the materials in Nutrition Learning Package

8A Rules of good communication

8B Communications in the village

8C Ideas and methods for trainers teaching nutrition

8D Priority messages

8E Pretesting

Nutrition Learning Package 9: SOLVING NUTRITIONAL PROBLEMS

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How to use the materials in Nutrition Learning Package 9

9A Solving nutrition problems in the community

9B Discussion-starter

9C Working with others

9D Choosing which problem to work on first

9E Overcoming barriers