T&L 2900: ONL: Nutrition Education for the School Aged Child

This is a four unit online course that will increase your knowledge and skills in teaching Nutrition Education to the School Aged Child. The course focuses on nutrition issues affecting school-age children and their families. It examines how the school, family, and community influence a child's nutritional health and provides the teacher with the background needed to teach nutrition with emphasis on strategies for bringing about behaviorchange. The course focuses on skill building in the area of using food in the classroom as a teaching strategy and investigates specific nutrition issues, such as societal and cultural influences on eating habits, body image and eating disorders, sports nutrition, and other nutritional concerns relating to school-age children. Participants will also learn about a healthy school nutrition environment.

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Course Resources
Nutrition Education (Course at a Glance) (PDF Document)

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Once the course is paid in full, access is typically granted within 3-5 business days after payment is processed. You will have up to 4 months to complete your course. Work at your own pace.

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Julie Zikmund

Julie Zikmund
RDN, Associate Director

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Julie Zikmund, MPH, RDN has over 30 years of work experience in the areas of nutrition and public health and has mentored many students from CDM, CFPPs to RDN students. She has been part of the faculty at the University of North Dakota since 2000. Julie is currently the Associate Director in the Office of Extended Learning at the University of North Dakota. Her new scope of work involves online learning courses for all types of learners, including the training of CDM, CFPPs across the nation through the University of North Dakota. In her professional career, she has worked in a wide variety of practice settings, but seeing budding students grow into competent professionals has been the most rewarding and impactful part of her career. She believes in building a legacy for other nutrition professionals to follow. Julie graduated with her bachelor's degree in 1992 from the University of North Dakota and earned her Master's degree in Public Health from Tulane University in 2000.