Earn these career-relevant skills in weeks, not years.
- Identify the history, purpose, and scope of health, wellness, and physical education.
- Examine the effects of a healthy lifestyle on self-image and self-esteem.
- Determine the relationship between proper food choice and wellness.
- Describe the relationship between nutrition and exercise.
- Examine state and national health and physical education standards.
- Describe how exercise science applies to wellness and physical fitness.
- Examine the basic scientific principles of biomechanics and physiology.
- Determine what guidelines should be applied to the evaluation of physical movement and skill demonstration.
- Explain why locomotion movements, nonlocomotion skills, and object manipulation skills should be considered when planning a program of physical development.
- Identify potential issues in developing motor skills and motor learning.
- Describe the relationship between the stages of K-8 students’ growth and development to a healthy lifestyle, self-concept, and wellness.
- Analyze instructional strategies for teaching health.
- Examine strategies for teaching students how to determine the validity of health products and services such as diet or nutrition products.
- Examine innovative strategies for teaching nutrition.
- Examine teaching strategies for teaching the risks of drug, alcohol, and tobacco use.
- Describe the relationship between the stages of K-8 students’ growth and development to movement, skill development, and fitness.
- Analyze instructional techniques and methods for the physical education curriculum.
- Evaluate materials and resources related to physical education.
- Create an age-appropriate integrated lesson on an area of physical education and health.
- Create assessments that align to lesson objectives and include performance-oriented tasks.
- Examine ways in which health and physical education can be integrated into other content areas.
- Examine how to adapt physical education instruction and assessment for diverse learners.