Level Up Health Education

In today's episode, I open up my (virtual) Question Box to answer two questions submitted by health education teachers. I give my take on teaching about financial literacy in health class and share resources for teaching students with cognitive disabilities.

Resources From This Episode:

• A Practical Guide for Teaching Health Education to Students with Intellectual Disabilities (Haley Kavanagh in JOPERD)
• YouTube Playlist: Sex Ed for People With Disabilities
• Sexual Health & IDD Resources (Kennedy Krieger Institute)

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In this episode, I talk through the changes I'm going to try out in my classroom this year. And, because I missed this opportunity while recording, imagine this as the introduction to this episode: "Health teachers talk about changes a lot, but this isn't a puberty episode..." (or something like that).

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A conversation with a confused student, combined with a lesson created by two student teachers, led me to rethink the skill of advocacy.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Circles of Action Visible Thinking Routine

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In today's episode, I explain what teaching the same skill across multiple grade levels could look like. I share how we teach advocacy in grades 6, 7, and 8 at our middle school. Other NHES skills, such as interpersonal communication and analyzing influences, are also taught at multiple grade levels and are mentioned here.

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I start every class with a review of what we went over in the previous class, and if we completed any skill practice, I make sure to include examples in my review. Today's episode covers the "This or That?" activity I use to review at the start of health class.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode

• "This or That?" Examples

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In this "Summer Session," I share a set of skill cues for teaching the skill of advocacy in a skills-based health education classroom.

Resources From This Episode:

• SHAPE America National Health Education Standards
• RMC Health: Advocacy 

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In this "Summer Session" episode, I talk about the "Jotter Box Handout," which replaced mini white boards in my classroom. It's an absurdly simple, basic, low-tech document that I call a "Swiss Army Knife" and use for a variety of purposes in my classroom.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Click here for a Jotter Box Handout Template (it's literally just a Google Doc with boxes on it).
• Andy Milne's Question Matrix Activity

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After a two-month break, I'm back! As part of my "Summer Sessions" series, I'm revisiting email newsletters I sent out before I started my podcast and recording them as podcasts, with updates as needed.

Today's episode is a brief look at skill transfer and how you can keep your end destination the same while having multiple paths to get there.

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A few years ago, I was looking to revamp my summative assessment for a sixth-grade unit. This unit focuses on the skill of interpersonal communication and uses the content area of anti-bullying/seeking support from adults. This unit was initially challenging to create a summative assessment for because there were so many sub-skills within the skill of communication that I wanted students to demonstrate. Communication skills were used in a conversation, including verbal and nonverbal. There was a specific method of seeking support from a trusted adult in there. Students learned I-Statements, too. I needed to fit all of those into a project where students actually demonstrated all of those skills. 

In today's episode, I walk through the history of a sixth-grade project and how it's changed over the years before sharing advice about how you can use this approach in your classroom.

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You can improve your skills-based health education teaching and curriculum without a major overhaul. In today's episode, I go over 7 strategies you can use in order to "level up" your SBHE teaching and/or curriculum. These strategies work for both new and veteran teachers alike.

Resources Mentioned In This Episode

• RMC Health: Skill Cues
• The Essentials of Teaching Skills-Based Health Education

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