Health 3200 – Methods in Health Education – 3 Credit Hours
Summer 2010

Instructor: Michael Olpin, PhD, CHES
Office: Swenson Gym Office #125G
E-mail: molpin@weber.edu
Phone: 626-6485

Prerequisite: Health 3000 Foundations of Health Promotion

Class Schedule:  
MWF 8:30-10:20 Stromberg PE/Health 62

Required Text 
Active Learning: 101 Strategies to Teach Any Subject: by Mel Silberman   

Secondary References:
Health Education Methods Books are available on loan from the instructor. In addition the instructor maintains files on most methods used in health education. Curriculum guides for several topics are also available from the instructor. These can be checked out from the instructor. The primary resource location has become the internet. You will be shown where these places are to help you find support material.

Also Required:
Students will need to be able to access the online webspace (online.weber.edu) for this class. Several things we do in the class will involve working in there. If you need help, contact the friendly technical help people at 626-7777.

Course Description
Students will obtain the necessary skills to plan and implement a variety of health promotion lessons & methods in the school, clinical, hospital, or worksite settings. Emphasis will be on facilitating prepared units/lessons to respective target populations such as students, employees, patients, or community members.

Aim                              
The course will enable the student to select methods and develop a lesson plan in order to effectively communicate an educational session with specific learning/behavioral objectives. Students will be capable of creating and implementing an individualized change program through a process of risk analysis, individualizing a behavior change program, and counseling the client/student/patient toward success.

Goals                
For the various projects, students will identify both a setting (school, clinic, government or community health setting, worksite, etc.) and a target population in order to meet the following learning objectives:

 Objectives: At the completion of this course, each student will have the opportunity to:

• Construct, demonstrate, and disseminate an innovative teaching method in the form of a Method-Presentation.

• Develop 2 comprehensive Content-Presentations incorporating a minimum of three (3) separate teaching modalities. The presentations must include clearly identified learning objectives, comprehensive content materials, opportunity for processing the material, brief summary for closure, and evaluation items.

• Develop a Unit Plan. Proper scope and sequence must be followed. Duplications of unit plans from 3050 are not acceptable. Sample Unit Plans are available inside the class webspace. The Unit Plan will also contain an appropriately marked section for all method and content handouts that are distributed during the semester. Detailed instructions for creating your Unit Plan will be given throughout the semester.

• Review and rate one Health Related Audio-Visual production using an appropriate evaluation sheet.

• Complete regular Peer Evaluation Instruments to assess peer performance (for the Method and Content Presentations). Peer evaluations, worth 5 points each, will be graded based on constructive ratings and comments. Evaluations that do not include comments (both positive and constructive) will be downgraded.

• Complete a Bulletin Board. (Must be on a real bulletin board. Poster Board is not acceptable.)

• Demonstrate the correct usage of an audio-visual aid, e.g., movie projector, VCR, Elmo, overhead projector and the use of a PC to develop overheads.

• Locate and develop appropriate health education methods and materials for use in planning and implementing programs & classes from appropriate sources. So documentation of a review of literature is required in both the method and content presentation).

Suggestions for Presentations

• Content presentations should include at least 1 icebreaker, and at least one, but preferably 2 or 3 of the methods that were treated in the Method-Presentations

• Guest speakers may not be used except if presented in videotape format for a maximum of 3 minutes.

• Video segments used in the content-presentation may not exceed 2 minutes.

• Each student must use at least two overheads with proper font size and clip art for their methods presentation.

• All students should meet with the professor at least one week prior to their presentation for a consultation.

Course Requirements:            
The course is highly participatory and experiential. Class projects will determine most of the grade. Participation is a large part of the course and points will be awarded accordingly.

Participation Policy:           
Students will receive points for participating in class. For each content/method presentation, 5 assessment points will be awarded. If you miss a day when a presentation is happening, you'll miss out on those points. Excused absences (official WSU business, major life event, etc.) must be petitioned for a week in advance of the missed day(s). Failure to petition for points will result in no points for that session.

Semester Schedule – Found Here:

Schedule of Daily Activities

 Determining the dates that you will do your Methods and Content Presentations
The following procedures will be used to determine assignments for the method and content presentations. The dates you will present the method and content presentations will be determined by drawing a number out of a hat (or something that can hold little pieces of paper). You will be assigned the selections that you draw. The drawing will not begin until those with special needs have been accommodated. For example, an expectant mother or some other similar circumstance will be able to choose her preference for the date of her presentation.

Assignments
The point values for the different assignments are listed below. Where the due date is provided, the assignment must be turned in on the due date, not before or after. Late assignments will NOT BE ACCEPTED unless the instructor has been notified in advance of the due date that extenuating circumstances exist. 

Grading:  Grades are based on a percentage of the total possible points earned in the class.
The following total number of points is associated with the final grades.

Your grades scores and ongoing grade for this course are found in the webspace designated for this class. This is accessible by following the instructions at the top of this syllabus.

Class Ground Rules

Beginning and Dismissing Class
Given the nature of the class, attendance is important. Classes will begin ON TIME. Unless you have extenuating circumstances, please make your best effort to be in class when it is time to begin. Attendance/Participation points will be deducted whenever you come in late. Also, we will dismiss class when the class activities are finished for the day. Please refrain from "packing up" before we are officially through. It is very rude to hurry up the finish time of the class. If you absolutely must leave during class, please leave in a way that does not disrupt the flow of the class.

Cell Phones and Other Electronic Devices
Please turn off, and leave in your bags, any cell phone or other electronic device while in the classroom.

Food in the Classroom
If you must bring food into the classroom, be sure you bring enough food to share with everyone (including the instructor).

Classroom Chatter
If you need to carry on an extended conversation with someone else in the room on an unrelated topic, please be courteous and leave the room to do so.

Academic Misconduct
Cheating of any kind will not be tolerated. Evidence of not doing your own work will result in an automatic zero for that assignment on the first infraction. Evidence of not doing your own work a second time will result in an automatic failing grade for the class. This includes plagiarism. If you use someone else’s work, be sure to give them credit for it. This rule applies for all class assignments.