Health & Wellness for K-6 Educators

Catalog description

The purpose of this course is to provide students with a deeper understanding of health and wellness education with an Anishinaabe perspective within the K-6 elementary education classroom. The curriculum reflects the growing body of research that emphasizes teaching essential knowledge, shaping personal values and beliefs that support healthy behaviors, shaping group norms that value a healthy lifestyle, developing the essential health and wellness skills necessary to adopt, practice, and maintain health-enhancing behaviors, and creating school-based wellness policies addressing nutrition, physical activity, and traditional health practices and beliefs.