Course Description
Not only for Health and P.E. Teachers, this course is designed for any proactive educator eager to guide students towards a lifelong path of healthy habits. It’s more important now than ever to help students learn that food choices and healthy activities in their youth can influence their health throughout their entire life. The CDC states that obesity in children has tripled since the 1970s, and as of 2018, has affected over 20% of youth aged 6-19. This course provides an opportunity to earn professional development credit for extending your instruction to include health and nutrition education in your classroom or across the curriculum. Since including this in your curriculum often requires lots of tweaking and adaptations done on your own personal time, we offer credit for health/nutrition programs you spend your own personal time developing. If you have already developed such a program or have been asked to do so, now you can earn PD credit for all your hard work. You simply need to submit (1) a short description of the creative teaching ideas you have already created (or that you plan to create), (2 )a self-created time log verifying the hours of work you have invested, and(3) selected proof of completed objectives.
About University of the Pacific
University of the Pacific, established in 1851, is California’s oldest private chartered university and is fully accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC).
The credits offered are post-baccalaureate, graded, graduate-level semester units of credit, provided directly through University of the Pacific, Benerd College. They are specifically designed to meet the needs of educators for Salary Advancement and Recertification. The credits/units are acceptable where local districts approve and applicable to state licensing where authorized. We always encourage you to check with your employer for acceptability of these credits/units. Course participants are responsible to determine acceptability of these credits for their intended use. Each graduate-level semester credit is equivalent to 15 hours of academic involvement.
Course Objectives
Upon successful mastery of this course, you will be able to:
- Identify specific curriculum objectives that can be met through health or nutrition projects or activities.
- Integrate health and/or nutrition projects or activities into your regular curriculum to teach specific objectives.
- Apply strategies and insights gained to a health- or nutrition-related project that you will use in your work.
- Formulate engaging methods to empower your students with the necessary knowledge and skills to make healthy nutritional choices.
- Reflect on the impact and effectiveness of your health and nutrition program on your students’ learning and lives.