A Skills Based Approach

Join us for
Health Education: A Skills Based Approach

This two-day workshop will be held
*Friday, February 24, 2012 from 8 am – 3:00pm &
*Friday, March 30, 2012 from 8 am – 3:00 pm

At the Hamilton County Public Health Department,
250 William Howard Taft Rd, 2^nd FL
Cincinnati, OH 45219

Overview
The Ohio Department of Education, Ohio Department of Health & Buckeye Healthy Schools Alliance are sponsoring a two-day health education workshop for middle and high school health teachers. This workshop is set up as two interactive training sessions designed to teach educators to develop curriculum, teaching units and lesson plans that focus on building the critical thinking and decision making skills students need to establish good health behaviors. Our facilitators are Dr. Susan Telljohann & Dr. Joseph Dake of the University of Toledo. Participants will meet on February 24^th, 2012 to learn how to incorporate characteristics of effective health programs into their health curriculum/units/lesson plans then go back to their classrooms to implement and test these strategies. Participants will then come back together on March 30^th, 2012 to discuss lessons learned and work through challenges in their classrooms.

Objectives
At the end of the training, participants will be able to:

State the goal of skill-based health education
Describe the Characteristics of Effective Health Education Curricula
Apply the Characteristics of Effective Health Education Curricula to a middle school/high school health class
Describe the steps needed tgo adequately teach and assess a health skill
Apply the steps for teaching health skills to middle school or high school students
Apply the Characteristic of Effective Health Education Curricula to a middle or high school health class
Explain the steps of backwards design in unity plan development

Target Audience
Health Teachers & Curriculum Directors/Coordinators

Registration Details
The cost to attend this workshop is $20 which includes lunch for both days and all workshop materials. Space is limited and registration is required. Click here to REGISTER. Registration deadline is February 15^th, 2012. *Please note: participants must attend both sessions. Questions, contact Heather Vilvens, Executive Director, BHSA or by phone @ 937-725-2787

College Credit
Application has been made to Ashland University to offer one semester hour of graduate credit for completing this workshop and out of class assignment. Graduate credit will be granted upon completion of all requirements. The cost for college credit is $175 and is payable by check to Ashland.