HLTH 205 - Health and Fitness for Teachers

Focuses on aspects of health and physical education critical both to personal wellness and to professional practice. Course topics include learning environment applications: health information, physical activity, self-assessment, health action planning, and disease prevention. This course meets the Health and Physical Education outcomes requirements for the A.A.T. Assessment Level(s): ENGL 101 /ENGL 101A . Three hours each week. Formerly HE 201.

3 semester hours

Course Outcomes:
Upon course completion, a student will be able to:

Identify appropriate and responsible health behaviors for optimal wellness and strategies to attain and maintain those behaviors.
Describe how actions and decisions in childhood may perpetuate, initiate, or delay the incidence of lifestyle diseases.
Evaluate how factors such as culture, media, families, communities, and peers influence health information, perceptions, behaviors, decisions, and product and services selection for all ages.
List and explain the components and several benefits of physical fitness as they relate to elementary students and adults.
Identify the components of a healthy diet and list food choices that address those components.
List and explain common drugs abused by students at different age levels and analyze personal, family, and community effects of drug abuse.
Identify communicable diseases possible in the classroom setting and ways to reduce transmission and identify no communicable diseases that may affect elementary children.

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