This script elucidates how to deliver health education on the topic sleep. It demonstrates how the health education can be delivered through visual, auditory, writing, reading, as well as kinesthetic models of learning. It will be prudent to give the definition of sleep through lecture, which represents an auditory model of learning. It explains sleep as a natural condition of resting where one closes the eye and becomes unconscious (Gilbert, Sawyer, & McNeil, 2015). It is prudent to accompany the explanation with visual aids, which helps in assisting the audience to visualize the topic. Additionally, it is significant to allow group discussions and group activities on the subject sleep. It is appropriate to ask someone from the audience to read aloud the accepted definition of sleep.
The use of visual as a model of learning can be demonstrated to the audience by stating the importance of sleeping. Sleeping for eight hours is appropriate for immune function. It is achieved by displaying charts, diagrams, as well as charts of the immune system while explaining how sleep is important for immunity of the body. It is proper to show a film on the importance of sleep and ask the audience to make notes after watching the film. Additionally, the health educator should have written directions on the walls to demonstrate and reinforce the information being passed.
Adequate sleep is necessary for learning as well as memory (Wandberg & Rohwer, 2010). Sleeping for eight hours assists the human brain to commit novel information to memory via a process referred as memory consolidation. The health educator should request the audience to discuss amongst themselves on how sleeping can help in learning as well as memory. To address the needs of kinesthetic learners, health educator must request the audience to stand, bounce legs, as well as stretch periodically in the course of the discussion.
References
Gilbert, G. G., Sawyer, R. G., & McNeil, E. B. (2015). Health education: Creating strategies for school and community health. Burlington MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Wandberg, R., & Rohwer, J. (2010). Teaching health education in language diverse classrooms. Sudbury, Mass: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
