Practicum in Teaching Health and Physical Education. Instructional design for health or physical education, leading to the implementation and assessment of an intact unit of instruction. Needs Assessment and Action Planning for Comprehensive School Health Education. Explores the eight components of comprehensive school health, with an emphasis on the application of needs assessment and action planning skills in the development of comprehensive P-12 school health education. Problems in School Health.
Students study and discuss problems and issues relating to school and community health.
Emphasizes prevention and risk reduction strategies available to the physical educator functioning as a member of a comprehensive school health team. The study of current research methodologies and design in physical education. The student will develop a pilot study prospectus. Students complete a field-based research project in health instruction from the proposal developed in KH 7820, in collaboration with a faculty mentor. Students complete a field-based research project in physical education instruction from the proposal developed in KH 7820, in collaboration with a faculty mentor .