Join ENC-Teacher Exchange...it's free!

Egg Nutrition Center invites nutrition educators and other family and consumer sciences teachers for students in grades 1 thru 12 to sign up to be a member of the ENC-Teacher Exchange. Sign-up is fast, it's free, and we'll read every word teachers write in our quest to identify great nutrition teaching tools now in use, and to work in tandem with teachers to update existing nutrition teaching tools or create new ones that will resonate with students in grades 1 thru 12. Please click the button above to sign up for ENC-Teacher Exchange today.

• Teachers will receive periodic notices encouraging them to participate in online discussions, but there's no requirement to do so.
• By monitoring online discussions, ENC will be able to identify some teachers who may wish to join small "creative teams" to develop new nutrition tools.  Those team members may be joined from time to time by one of ENC's nutrition advisors to help create one new type of nutrition education tool, such as a PowerPoint presentation or an instructional lesson plan. Each creative team will be asked to produce only one new nutrition tool.
• Each teacher invited to participate in the creation of a new teaching tool--and who actively dedicates the required 8 to 10 hours with teammates to help create the teaching tool--will receive a $300 honorarium from Egg Nutrition Center for the contribution of their time. 
  
• ENC covers all costs related to the creation and production of the new teaching tools, and...
• As each new teaching tool is completed, it will be made available for free to teachers everywhere as a downloadable asset from this web site.
• Some teachers may be invited to join a small "creative team" to update an existing teaching tool that has been proven effective with students, but needs to be refreshed with new information or newly available technology.  ENC will pay a $300 honorarium to each member of those creative teams as well.
  
• In certain circumstances, Egg Nutrition Center will arrange to conduct video interviews at your school with nutrition/consumer sciences teachers and an administrator to feature the video on this web site, on YouTube, and perhaps on the web sites of Egg Nutrition Center and/or The American Egg Board.  In some cases, one of ENC's nutrition advisors will also be interviewed on camera to appear in the featured video. Video production to highlight certain types of nutrition education programs will be considered on a school-by-school basis and subject to ENC budget considerations.
  

"School teachers have special skills to connect with their students in meaningful ways, but in these cost-cutting economic times, they often don't have the best or most up-to-date teaching tools," explained ENC Executive Director Mitchell Kanter, PhD. "Teachers tell us they need the most current nutrition research and educational tools in the form of videos, PowerPoint presentations, lesson plans and other methods that are easily and rapidly downloaded, so that's what we're planning to provide, beginning early in 2012."

Success of the ENC-Teacher Exchange program, according to Dr. Kanter, who earned his PhD in Physiology, will require a steady stream of dialog with school teachers coast-to-coast to learn from them the best methods for cataloging and creating better nutrition teaching tools. ENC can then tap into its considerable nutrition resources and some of the top university-based researchers in the U.S. to develop the best tools.

Egg Nutrition Center invites nutrition educators and consumer sciences teachers to join ENC-Teacher Exchange for free.  Sign-up takes only a couple of minutes, and those enrolled can be assured of being among the first in the U.S. to learn about new teaching tools as they are added to this web site.  Please sign in by clicking the symbol below: