This participatory, project-based course will take place online through Canvas over an eight-week period. The goal of the course is to prepare Vermont health educators to demonstrate an understanding of personal health topics and be able to apply this knowledge to their own state of health as well as to the classroom. This online course is a comprehensive study and reflection of personal health and wellness with an emphasis on mental and emotional health, stress-management, physical activity, healthy aging, personal safety, and consumer health. The Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child model will also be addressed. Vermont’s focus on proficiency-based learning and teaching in the health education classroom will be addressed.
Students will use a variety of online resources as well as a required text to assist in their development of weekly class discussion posts, text reflections, an interview assignment with a practicing health educator in Vermont, and a Standards-Based Unit Plan.
This course is fully online, with some synchronous virtual meetings. Click View Schedule above for dates and times.