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  • 3.00 Credits

    Provides an analysis of planning and assessment in health education for PreK-6 grade students. Emphasis is placed on designing comprehensive health education lesson and unit plans and fully integrating health-literacy skills with functional health content. This course also includes elements of personal health and safety content.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Analyzing and applying pedagogical processes of classroom teaching techniques in Health Education. Students will gain experience in constructing and implementing units of instruction, and in using a variety of teaching aids/strategies to enhance the teaching/learning process. This course is designed to meet SHAPE America Health Education teacher preparation standards. A Stage 3 field experience in Pk-12 schools is required as a part of this course. Background clearances are required to enroll in this course.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course provides an in-depth analysis on planning and assessment in health education for 7th through 12th grade students. Emphasis is placed on designing comprehensive health education lesson and unit plans, fully integrating health-literacy skills with functional health content to help school-aged children adopt and maintain healthy behaviors. It also includes elements of drug education and mental and emotional health.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Intended for students interested in school health education. The course includes information and skills for planning and implementing policies and programs aligned with the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) approach. It also addresses the basic elements of nutrition, violence prevention, and physical health content for the health education major.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Includes functional sexual health content and the health-literacy skills needed to plan and implement a comprehensive sexuality education program. Emphasis is placed on topics within sexuality education that are included for students in PreK-12.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Provides an orientation to the health and physical education profession. This course includes an overview of contemporary instructional models and underlying scientific and health-related physical fitness principles, along with a description of the history of health and physical education that highlights successful qualities of physical educators. A focus on health education behavior theories is included as well. Students complete school-based observations and field experiences. It is aligned with the SHAPE America national accreditation competencies for Physical Education and Health Education.
  • 3.00 Credits

    A methods course requiring students to plan and deliver multiple lessons to peers enrolled in the course. This involves knowledge, fundamental skills, strategy and rules of flag football, soccer, and floor hockey. Emphasis is placed on tactics and skill learning in modified-game situations, performance analyses, and the planning and implementation of developmentally appropriate instructional progressions. This teaching methods course encompasses teaching methods, formative assessment, class management, and safety appropriate for all teaching opportunities.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Provides students with pedagogical content knowledge, fundamental skills, strategies and rules of basketball, team handball, and ultimate frisbee with a tactical focus and structure. Emphasis is placed on skill learning, game tactics and decisions, performance analyses, and progressions. This methods course encompasses teaching methods, class management, formative assessment, and safety appropriate for developmentally appropriate grade levels. Students will complete peer and self-evaluations.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Provides pedagogical content knowledge, fundamental skills, strategies and rules of tennis, badminton, pickle ball, volleyball with a secondary focus on other net sports. Emphasis is placed on tactical-focused skill learning in modified game situations, as well as on performance analysis and instructional progressions and the planning and implementation of developmentally appropriate instructional progressions. This teaching methods course encompasses teaching methods, formative assessment, class management, and reflective assessment after completing teaching opportunities.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Provides the background to develop and adapt lifelong healthy behavioral changes to improve and maintain mental and physical health. Concepts and strategies are taught to address the significant declines in mental and physical health, social connectedness, education, job disruption, and insecurity that may continue to develop during pandemics. This course emphasizes personal health issues and current health concerns with an emphasis on wellness behavior, physical fitness, nutrition awareness, stress management, and substance use and abuse.
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