teens promoting health awareness how to start a peer tutor project at your school
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Teens Promoting Health Awareness
How to Start a Peer Tutor Project at Your School
The ¡VIVA! Peer Tutor Project
of South Texas ISD
Teens promote health literacy through the use of National Library of Medicine resources Class presentations Outreach events
Program benefits Service learning Collaboration 21st century skills
Overview
Best Practices
Planning
Complete in advance Write and distribute Involve key players Follow a timeline Have a backup plan Complete a budget Buy supplies
Management
Consistency The fewer, the better Have an assistant who is informed
Recruiting
Establish criteria for program participation during planning
Advertise early and everywhere possible Have a written job description Make expectations clear
Applications, Screening, Selection
Students Submit letter of interest and/or application Review written applications to determine
eligibility Get teacher, counselor and/or administration
recommendations Check grades Should be upperclassmen Possess good public speaking skills
Orientation
Provide on first day Delineate policies and procedures Distribute calendar, materials and other
information
Training
Practice with case studies or role-playing activities
Learn to give and receive feedback Rehearse Videotape
Parental Support
Make expectations clear Statement of commitment Calendars
Parent meeting Dress rehearsals Potluck
Monitoring
Hold feedback sessions with teachers, tutors and managers
Obtain written reports Could be a simple checklist
Final “Best Practices” session for program evaluation
PR
Begins with recruiting Publicize progress to other members of
district, families and public Keep photo history Give recognition
Record Keeping
Attendance records Files of successful activities Calendars
Evaluation
Collect data Guest log Attendance Feedback
Make adjustments Report success
Detailed Information
Your Campus
First Things First
Administrator approval Medical librarian or qualified trainer
recruited
Personnel
Program sponsor Campus librarian or teacher Motivated, energetic and organized
Trainer Medical librarian
Peer tutors Upperclassmen Must be passing all classes Good public speaking skills
Getting Started
Medical librarian trains program sponsor on NLM resources MedlinePlus, PubMed, Tox Town, Household
Products Database Program sponsor trains peer tutors
Focus on MedlinePlus Peer tutors practice and provide positive
feedback Videotaping
Spreading the Word
Faculty meetings Class presentations Open houses Sporting events School activities
Documentation
Meeting attendance Outreach/presentation attendance Photos
Help is Here¡VIVA! web site
http://bla.stisd.net/viva.html
Our Project
NLM Resources
Household Products DatabasePub MedTox TownMedlinePlusHousehold Products Pub Med Tox Town MedlinePlus
Project Team Members Lucy Hansen [email protected]
Principal Investigator Sara Reibman [email protected]
Project Specialist Ann Vickman [email protected]
Project Director Javier Jiménez [email protected] Technology Support Debra Warner [email protected] Project Consultant Cindy Olney, PhD. [email protected] Evaluation Consultant
PowerPoint prepared by Ann Vickman and Sara Reibman 2008