Health, Safety Fitness for Teachers

EDUC

110

Health, Safety Fitness for Teachers

This course will provide prospective teachers with the necessary knowledge and skills to establish and maintain personal health and fitness, to create and maintain safe and healthy home and classroom environments, and use their knowledge of personal and community health issues to effectively manage their resources and to advocate for healthy children, families and communities. This course will consist of a series of seven two-hour workshops on the following issues of health and safety: nutrition; exercise and physical fitness; sexuality, health and hygiene; prevention and risk education strategies to promote safety at home and in the classroom, including prevention of child abduction; identification and reporting of suspected child abuse and maltreatment; fire and arson prevention; and the impact of alcohol, and substance abuse on personal health and families.

Fall, Spring

Undergraduate

No