# Health Education Development/Assessment

Your learning outcomes from studying this subject can be assessed through your assignments. Your assignments must contain evidence that you have achieved the following learning outcomes:

## Conduct a session

Plan and conduct a session which facilitates learning for a chosen community using relevant health education and cooperative learning theoretical frameworks.
* Identify health education philosophy and principles;
* Be familiar with, and critically analyse models of behaviour change applicable to health promotion planning;
* Plan and document an educational session suitable for a specified group;
* Facilitate cooperative learning within a group in various settings.

## Facilitate cooperative learning

Develop the skills to enable people within a variety of settings to identify and attain critical aspirations and facilitate cooperative learning within the group taking account of their specific learning needs and cultural characteristics.
* Account for participant diversity and differences in learning/teaching preferences;
* Examine and apply knowledge of societal values in planning and implementing health education approaches;
* Demonstrate health education and group facilitation skills specifically tailored to consider cultural, gender, age and other differences

## Critically appraise health education

Critically appraise various approaches to health education development
* Consider options for evaluating health education activities;
* Critically analyse relevant literature and health education strategies;
* Critically reflect on your own health education experiences and practice.

## Other attributes

Your assignments should also contain evidence that you can:
* Competently use the technologies that are relevant in your discipline.
* Identify and access authoritative information
* Make accurate observations and develop reasonable inferences.
* Describe and contrast different approaches to drawing and justifying inferences from observations.
* Communicate effectively using a variety of modes, technologies and media in an integrated manner.
* Use contextually sensitive written and oral skills to engage others in effective communication in a variety of settings.
* Develop and present a rigorous argument that is relevant and appropriately targeted for a given audience.
* Use effective independent work skills as appropriate to your own discipline.
* Work in a team, and evaluate your own and others’ behaviours in a team setting, communicate effectively and manage conflict, brainstorm, and encourage others.
* Use effective leadership and organisational skills, including managing collaborations, negotiating differences, educating, and influencing the thinking and behaviour of others.
* Plan and determine the effectiveness of your own work.
* Find, investigate and describe relationships between observations and new, complex information that pertains to your discipline.
* Independently, and as part of a team, examine, select, use and evaluate various approaches to develop solutions to new complex problems and issues.
* Apply creative thinking and problem-solving strategies to new situations.
* Demonstrate awareness of social and environmental issues (within Australia and internationally) and their impact on health, health care and the community.
* Maintain high ethical standards, and deal with ethical dilemmas.
* Be able to practise in accordance with professional values and ethics in a socially diverse community.