08 Health Apps for Children’s Care (Course8-EN)

Units

  8.2 Experiential training sess...
8.1 Teaching Session

Objectives

  • What are newborns?

  • Types of newborns

  • Characteristics of newborns

Competences

  • Newborns and their characteristics

  • The importance of breastfeeding and complementary feeding

  • The importance of sleep habits.

  • Learners will know the applications related to newborns and will learn how to use them appropriately.

Duration: 3 hours

Resources for 8.1

ETA 8.1 Teaching Session (online)
ETA 8.1 Teaching Session (pdf)

8.1.1. Introduction: newborn baby

Duration: 50 minutes

This session will present the following sections:

  • Brief introduction to the project
  • Introductory activity
  • What are newborns (also called neonates)
  • Types of newborns according to gestational age
  • Characteristics of newborns based on explanatory video.

Resources: 

8.1.2. Breastfeeding and Feeding

Duration: 50 minutes

This session will cover topics such as:

  • What is breastfeeding and its benefits?
  • Alternatives to breastfeeding
  • Supplementary feeding

Activity to summarise concepts. Users will be divided into groups of 3-4 people, and the trainer will provide them with a sheet of paper containing a table with several cases of children of different ages. The group will have to discuss and write down which foods they think are the most appropriate to give them at that time of development and in what way.

Resources: 

8.1.3 Sleeping habits

Duration: 50 minutes

This session will cover topics such as:

  • Importance of sleep habits in newborns.
  • Recommendations for hours of sleep at different ages
  • Problems that can arise if good sleep routines are not in place

Debate, where the trainer will present cases of children of different ages and the number of hours they sleep per day so that the students can comment on the real cases and solve the possible problems as a group.

Resources:

  • ETA - 8 Teaching Session (8.1), Unit 8.1.3

8.1.4. Health applications on newborns

Duration: 60 minutes

The trainer will introduce the different newborn applications and the areas they cover (daily record, feeding, paediatric advice, types of crying, sleeping habits and breastfeeding).

Once the functions of the different apps have been introduced, a kahoot will be performed. The activity consists of several rounds, in which each round presents a characteristic of one of the applications and several alternative answers. Each of the learners will have to answer which application they think is the one in which this characteristic is present. This activity is intended to familiarise attendants with the apps.

Resources: 

  • ETA - 8 Teaching Session (8.1), Unit 8.1.4

8.1.5 Assessment and closure

Duration: 50 minutes

The trainer will give a brief summary of the aspects seen during the sessions. Learners will sit in a circle and each one will give their opinion on what they thought of the sessions, what they have learned and whether they consider the applications shown to be useful.

Finally, a satisfaction questionnaire will be handed out and the trainer will thank everyone for attending the sessions.

Resources:

  • ETA - 8 Teaching Session (8.1), Unit 8.1.5