Course ID: | NUTR 7970E. 1 hour. |
Course Title: | School Nutrition Field Experience II |
Course Description: | Documentation of on-site participation in job-related activities
required of a School Nutrition Director that focuses on practice
and demonstration of the knowledge, skills, and dispositions
delineated in state and national standards. |
Oasis Title: | School Nutrition Field Exp II |
Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in NUTR 7970 |
Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. Submission of
documentation of successful completion of worksite-embedded
tasks; documentation submitted when at least 500 total verified
contact hours in the workplace have been met. Ensures needed
skill set for ongoing job-related activities has been
developed prior to receiving a recommendation for the clear,
renewal certificate required for job retention. |
Prerequisite: | NUTR 7950 or NUTR 7959E |
Pre or Corequisite: | NUTR 6770E and FDNS 6670E |
Semester Course Offered: | Offered spring semester every year. |
Grading System: | S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory) |
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Course Objectives: | 1. To recognize personal professional strengths and weaknesses
and the need to become a life-long learner.
2. To document service of menus appropriate at each school
level and their compliance with federal nutritional guidance.
3. To document successful oversight and the application of
improvement strategies, if necessary with lack of compliance,
of the meal counting and claiming system in individual schools
(SFA).
4. To document appropriate application of federal criteria
when evaluating applications for free and reduced meal
eligibility.
5. To document compliance with production procedures and
established food safety standards and the ability to access
the situation and recommend appropriate corrective action in
day-to-day operations if necessary.
6. To use available School Nutrition Operation Financial
Reports to accurately describe the financial status of the
program and to identify any needed changes.
7. To illustrate the ability to communicate the mission of the
School Nutrition Program to at least one group of stakeholders. |
Topical Outline: | 1. A task analysis for one week with linkages made to
managerial functions, and required skills with a comparison to
job description and self efficacy assessment and plans for
future professional development
2. Submission of a week of menus from each school level served
within the current school year with nutritional compliance
documentation
3. Assessment provided for the meal counting and claiming
system on-site review for each school in the district with
recommended actions and documentation of the follow-up visit if
appropriate (both specific schools and school representative may
be redacted)
4. Submission of eligibility decision for free/reduced
applications along with a brief statement outlining criteria
used as the basis of decision-making (identifying information
should be redacted)
5. Documentation of compliance with health and safety
regulations (submit health inspection reports by SFA);
completion of production assessment for any site not meeting
state standards with specific recommendations for corrective
action
6. Analysis of School Nutrition Operations Financial Management
Reports (Lunch Participation and Cost Report, Breakfast
Participation and Cost Report, Snack Participation and Cost
Report, Non-reimbursable Sales Report, Statement of Revenues and
Expenditures, and Cash Resource Management Report) along with an
assessment of where the program stands and plans for any needed
adjustments (based primarily on Cash Resource Management Report
with remaining reports used to support needed adjustments)
7. Documentation and evaluation of a School Nutrition Program
promotion (nutrition education, wellness and/or marketing
related)
8. Performance assessments to be completed on-line by
immediate supervisors (local and state) |