HEALTH TEACHING: ORAL & DENTAL HYGIENE AND HAND WASHING

Learning is a constant part of life, and teaching is the sharing of the newly acquired knowledge to the person you care about. Most learnings were done in the primary education, this is where the basic things in life like counting numbers, importance of eating nutritious food, being responsible and life skills are developed. With this, we had an opportunity to teach the pre-school students of Motibot Elementary school about oral hygiene and hand washing last January 24, 2019. This passage will discuss what and how we taught the students, lastly what was our experience of the mentioned event.

There are several ways on how to properly teach a person, however if it was a child, there are special ways to teach them, because they easily get bored and lost interest. Firstly, we used images that we had personally drawn ourselves like the picture of a healthy and unhealthy teeth and mouth for the effects of bad oral hygiene, because young learners appreciate more if there were images presented to them rather than just talking all throughout, and  lastly, we demonstrated them on how to properly brush their teeth  and hand washing by using songs like happy birthday and brush-brush song of a tooth paste brand commercial years ago for reference, in this way we had an active participation of the learners,and excitement in learning. These were the ways we used to teach our students, and it was a success.

We were able to see the joy and the impact of the being a doctor in a barrio was. Joyful because for some of us in the group it was their first time to teach in school, some it was their first time to teach health related topics and seeing how the students react to our teachings was priceless, and knowing that when we left the school that day, in some way we were able to have an impact on their lives. There were several memorable experiences of the event but these were the highlights we consider most significant.

Overall, it was a great opportunity, the students learned something from us and we also learned how it was to be a physician teacher in the community, and we look forward on doing more for the next four years.

“knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied” -Alan Moore

Roldan F. Legal Jr.

ADZU SOM, Level 1