Certificate in Education: Health Education (2008)

Aim of the course

The overall aim of the course is to enable teachers to develop their own professional skills to teach and promote health within schools and their local communities.

Outcomes of the course

On successful completion of this course, participants would have:

1. Explored the definitions around health and health promotion;
   
   
2. Discussed and debated the importance of health promotion in schools;
   
   
3. Explored the importance of skills related to health education and their implications;
   
   
4. Used child-centered and action-based methodologies inherent in the Child-to-Child approach for health promotion in schools;
   
   
5. Developed a school health action plan based on the health needs in their own schools;
   
   
6. Learnt to identify ways of and develop checklists for monitoring and evaluating school health education activities;
   
   
7. Use reflective practice in order to continually review and assess your school health initiatives.

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