PEDU 9169

Teaching Health Education

3 Semester Units

This course will convince you of the need to take this responsibility very seriously; not only in the way you incorporate health across the curricula you teach but, more importantly, in the ways, you live your life before your students. “Every teacher is a health teacher.” Our classrooms literally become the places where children touch, taste, feel and think their way through life. The things children learn in school and the ways they apply them in their daily lives continue to be the foundational skills that help them move from childhood, through adolescence and on into adulthood. The schooling process, as the major component of a child’s formal education, must include opportunities to learn not only the proverbial 3Rs but should also include the acquisition of information that will lead to the development of healthy lifelong living skills. It is hoped that the lifestyles and behavior the children observe from us, on a daily basis, are the kinds that point them toward longevity and quality of life.