If you know me, you’ll know I’m always searching for different pedagogical techniques to use in my classroom. Part of this is just curiosity around what helps students learn, but part of it is my focus on making sure students get an academic health education experience where they can apply […]
With remote learning continuing through the school year, teachers all over the country are figuring out different ways to meet the needs of their students. In our school, we’ve been 1:1 with Chromebooks for a while now, and teachers have been using Google Classroom daily, so we haven’t had to […]
The second skill of the National Health Education Standards (NHES) is the skill of analyzing influences. Out of all the skills from the NHES, this one can raise the most questions, from both teachers and students. The skill is defined as: Students will analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, […]
NOTE: This is the fourth post in a series breaking down the skill development model in skills based health education. Check out the introductory post, step one post, and post on steps two and three before you read this one. As I stated in my introductory post, linked above, if […]
After a delay, I am resuming this series! My wife and I welcomed our daughter into the world a few weeks early back in November, so I put some things on the back burner as I got used to life as a dad. Although a lot of this series was […]
NOTE: This is the second post in a series breaking down the skill development model in skills based health education. Check out the introductory post here. As I stated in my introductory post, linked here, if you’re following a skills based approach to teaching health education, you follow a five […]
A few months ago, I mentioned on Twitter that if I got my act together, I would write a multi-post blog “series” and I’ve done just that, although later than anticipated. I’ll eventually link all the posts from here, and this sets me up for some follow up posts, too. […]
(Yes, the title of this post can be read two ways: “Let’s review how I start every health class,” and “‘Let’s Review!’ *is* How I Start Every Health Class.”) Beginning every class with a review is common practice across different subject areas, and in a skills based health education curriculum, […]
This post was initially intended to be a deep dive into using rubrics for any situation in skills based health education. I wrote about holistic rubrics, analytical rubrics, checklists, rating scales, and structured observation guides. Due to length, I decided that post will be its own separate thing, and so […]
Last spring, I was looking for a way to communicate to my students the routine I wanted them to follow when they entered my classroom. I did some thinking, and took the word “Health” and made it into an acronym for my students to follow. I made a little poem/rhyme/rap […]
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