Archive for the 'Community health' Category

Planning the teaching of an integrated task.

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

Currently I am fortunate to be sharing my classroom with a motivated pre-service teacher. This has resulted in me focusing on purposeful planning for Health Education aspects, and providing an opportunity to engage in relevant discussion and reasoning for learning activities.  It was during one of thee discussions yesterday afternoon that a brainwave hit.  I [...]

Community Health – Health at Every Size: The debate rages on!

Monday, May 18th, 2009

I am enjoying this unit so much.  The class has come alive with informed debate and differences of opinion.  Surprisingly the one student who I thought I would have most debates with has been the easiest to convince of the alternate point of view.  This could be used as a learning experience to demonstrate how [...]

Community Health – my favourite unit

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

I always look forward to this unit.  It proves a real challenge to open the eyes of my students and show them one of their health beliefs is in fact false.  With this class, who are more outspoken and willing to challenge, this should be fun.
Within this unit I will introduce the paradigm of “Health [...]