Learning Plan for Sam: Maintaining Optimal Weight in Children
Teaching and Learning
Learning involves three main domains that teachers should know and use to develop lessons for learners. Sam is a five-year-old son to Sarah and Matt. Sam is overweight and needs to reduce his body size as well as weight for health issues. Therefore, Sam’s parents have to make use of the three domains in ensuring that their son shades extra fats and achieves healthy weight through physical exercise. Notably, the areas include cognitive, psychomotor, and affective, which determines the understanding and application of concepts. According to Owen (2020), educators should use all three domains to ensure that learners are able to understand and apply them in their daily activities for the achievement of specific objectives.
Cognitive
The cognitive domain also called the thinking domain can be divided into subsets. The subsets are evaluating, synthesizing, knowledge, comprehending, applying, and analyzing (Owen, 2020). Matt and Sarah can make use of application as an objective in the cognitive domain to help their son acquire average weight according to his age. I will provide knowledge about the importance of physical activity in maintaining optimal weight in children to the family. Consequently, the family will apply the knowledge acquired to help Sam in shading off extra fats that will enable him to gain optimal weight. Western diet can predispose to overeating which, will result in further weight gain and diseases such as cardiovascular disorders, hypertension, diabetes, and cancers. A common cause of all these diseases is related to metabolic syndrome, a chronic state of systemic inflammation.
To start with, some of the vital knowledge that Watt and Sarah should possess is the fact that overweight problem results in chronic illnesses. Thus, physical activities as a way of extra shading fats reduce the chances of Sam being exposed to chronic diseases (Roychowdhury, 2020). Also, engaging Sam in physical exercise improves the metabolic and cardiovascular activities in his body, which reduces his body weight at a significant rate. I will provide information through written materials to help the parents get information about the importance of physical exercise in achieving optimal weight in children. The data will be helpful in the application as the goal within the cognitive domain.
The objective will be measured through the change in Sam’s weight as the parents use the knowledge that I will provide to them. A significant reduction in weight will imply that the family is making good use of the experience to achieve the goal of weight loss for their son. In this learning process, Latent learning theory is appropriate to illustrate how the family will help their son get to optimal weight. According to Erisen, Celikoz, and Sahin (2016), behaviors of human beings like talking and thinking consists of nerve system movements as well as muscles. That is, learning activities are associated with muscle movements together with neural system activities. Therefore, the family will change their behavior in favor of their goal of weight loss for their son.
Affective Domain
The affective domain is also referred to as feeling domain, which is associated with the emotions (Owen, 2020). The opinions are organized from the simple to the more complex one. The parents will monitor their son’s feelings and emotions towards the physical activities that he will be subjected to. Sam will be able to receive the required assistance from his parents as well as a health care professional. The intended goal from the affective domain is receiving where Sam is expected to get required support and care from the parents through the advice of a health professional. The goal can be measured through Sam’s response to physical activities. That is his willingness and commitment to the exercises that he will be required to go through.
The feedback theory is essential in this case for monitoring how Sam is responding to the physical exercise in terms of body size and weight. According to Al-Bashir, Kabir, and Rahman (2016), feedback is considered to be a critical element in enhancing the learning process. The feedback theory infers that body reactions result in different emotions. Therefore, the physical exercise will cause Sam’s body to react and, in the process generating different emotions that will communicate essential information to the health professional.
Psychomotor Domain
Psychomotor is also called the kinesthetic domain, and it consists of objectives that are specific to physical activities, informative movements, as well as reflex actions (Owen, 2020). Interpretive movements as an objective will be used within this domain. Sam’s parents will be able to use the information that I provided from the health professional to set specific moves and activities that their son will go through to reduce his weight. Physical activities, like running around and jumping up regularly, will promote Sam’s metabolic activities, which in turn reduces his body size as well as weight. Sarah and her husband will also be in a position to recognize the physical changes that their son will display in order to know the progress of their learning process.
The theory of human behavior is appropriate in explaining the family’s case. This theory explains how human behavior is predisposed in the environment (Akintunde, 2017). In this theory, human behavior is usually influenced by what they interact with within the environment. Notably, the interactions can be positive or negative. Sam’s parents should adopt positive stimuli from the environment to help their son achieve optimal weight.
Conclusion
In conclusion three domains are crucial in teaching leaners about different concepts. The domains include cognitive, affective, and psychomotor. They are also important in measuring the objectives of the leaner.
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