HLT 5210 Teaching Secondary Health and Safety
This course will examine the use of multiple methods to be able to teach theories, concepts, knowledge and an understanding about health, wellness and personal safety to the 7-12 grade student. Specific theories to be included, explored and made operational in this course are the Health Belief Model, Transtheoretical Model/Stages of Change Model and the Social Learning Theory. Factors that impact the well-being of the secondary school student include an adoption of a comprehensive approach to healthy development, creating safe environments and emergency responses to secondary education, home and community environments. This course serves as a gateway for teachers in training to promote and execute these mentioned factors. The lab, lecture, and group discussion format offers opportunities to share opinions regarding the cohesive concepts of middle/high school child health. Furthermore, students in this course will gain practical knowledge through developmentally appropriate assignments that emphasize preventing childhood abduction, preventing drug, tobacco and other drug use, providing safety education, instruction in fire and arson prevention, instruction about child development and parental skills and responsibility, and instruction regarding methods to prevent and detect certain cancers that applies to the 7-12th grade student. Upon the completion of this course, the future teacher educator in Health will be able to educate the secondary school students about their health, safety and developing a healthy lifestyle. In addition, students will be required to do ten required hours in an approved 7-12 setting.