Course Syllabus: HSc 411B

Health Science for Secondary Teachers,

Fall, 2008



 

Nathan Matza, MA, DrPH(c), CHES

 

California State University, Long Beach

College of Health and Human Services (HHS)

Department of Health Science

 

 

 
General               Information                                                   Contact Information

Units:

3 units-Meets California State Teacher Credential Requirement

Commission on Teacher Credentials (CTC)

Professor:

Nathan Matza, MA, DrPH(c), CHES

IMPORTANT:

Papers via e-mail encouraged INCLUDE IN SUBJECT: name.411b/mon, etc.

E-mail & website:

nathan@nmatza.net

nmatza.net

Faculty   Office:

HHS # FOA 14 (In patio area)

South of the Gym

 

Office Hours: 

Tue: 11:30-12:30,  & 4-5 PM

Wed 6-7 PM

& by appointment
Please send E-mail for
appointments.

 

Health Science Department

EMERGENCY ONLY Messages: 

(562) 985-4057  HHS 2 Room 115

Dept. FAX (562) 985-2384

Matza: (562)-985-8192

 

TEACHERS: Please read this syllabus thoroughly. Arrive to class on time, be responsible for your work and turn in assignments on the due dates. You should expect the same from you students.


Catalog Description:

 

Prerequisite: Upper division Standing. Co-requisite: Current CPR Certification required. Contemporary teaching of health education in the secondary schools; emphasizes coordinated school health, integrating health content and instruction into other subjects, drugs, sexuality, nutrition, child abuse prevention, violence, community and human ecology. Includes practical classroom problem solving. Based upon California Health Framework, meets state credential requirements. Not open for credit to health science majors or minors.

 

Attendance:

 

This course is required to complete the teaching credential, and students are expected to attend all sessions and arrive on time. Please turn off or mute all cell phones/pagers/and gizmos! Please call and leave messages should any genuine emergency arise. Pop quizzes may occur unannounced, at beginning, during, or end of class (20-50 points).

 

Textbooks: Required Reading 

 

Matza, N. (2009-2010). Health Science for Teachers. 4th ed.  Copy Pro. Long Beach, CA.

ISBN: 0-615-12320-1. The textbook is available at Copy Pro on Palo Verde &

Atherton.  Call for credit card or shipping. (562) 431-9974. ($50).

 

California Department of Justice, (2000).  Law in the School.   Attorney GeneralÕs

Office. ISBN: 0-8011-9718-X. FREE DOWNLOAD

This text only available via Internet. URL = Law in the School

Or, http://www.safestate.org/shop/index.cfm?cat=2&navid=107&action=list

 

California Department of Justice, (2007).  Child Abuse: EducatorÕs Responsibility. Attorney
            GeneralÕs Office. (35 pp). FREE DOWNLOAD

Click on: Child Abuse Prevention Documents

 

For your Professional Library: Highly Recommended: 

 

Edell, D. (1999), Eat, Drink, and be Merry. Harper Collins, New York, NY.

            Available on-line http: healthcentral.com ISBN: 0-060191955-4

 

Edell, D. (2004), Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Healthiness: Dr. Deans Commonsense

            Guide for Anything That Ails You By Dr. Dean Edell. ISBN: 0-06-0577231

            Available on-line http: healthcentral.com

 

Barrett, S., Jarvis, W., Kroger, M. (2002). Consumer Health. Mc Graw-Hill. New York,
          NY.  ISBN: 0-07-248521-3.

Lewis, K., Bear, B. (2009) Manual of School Health, 3rd Ed. Saunders/Elsevier. Philadelphia.
            ISBN: 978-1-4160-3778-1

 

Nestle, M. (2002) Food Politics. University of California Press. Berkeley, CA.

ISBN: 0-520-22465-5

 

Nestle, M. (2006) What to Eat, North Point Press. New York.

            ISBN: 13:978-0-86547-704-9

 

California Department of Education,  (2003).  Health Framework for California Public Schools: Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve, Sacramento. CA. Free Download Health Framework

 

On-line Reading Required:

 

On the Internet: Several Internet sites will be used throughout the course. The following links will be used for reference throughout the course. Click on MatzaÕs web page: recent data link for details. Click on HKRC, Healthy Kids Resource Center, websites etc. You may wish to  save files on disk, print hard copies or attach to e-mail for later reading (Project B).

 

Important Websites for the course: 

 

Nathan Matza's Homepage ,  Healthy Kids Resource Center (HKRC),  California Laws

 

Objectives (Note Credential standards. Commission on Teachers Credentials, CTC/S, follows each listed objective) This course stresses that teacher candidates will practice Lifelong Learning, Professional Growth, Social Responsibility, as they enter the teaching profession.

 

At the completion of the course students will:

  1. Explain contemporary concepts of coordinated (comprehensive) health education. (10c, TPE 11).
  2. Identify major causes of adolescent student morbidity and mortality.
    (10c, i TPE 8).
  3. List practical management techniques for the secondary school classroom.
    (10a, i, TPE 12).
  4. Anticipate, recognize and diffuse situations leading to student conflict.  (10c, 10e, TPE 12).
  5. Locate appropriate community health resources. (10a, v; 10C, ii, 10e, TPE 5,8,11,12).
  6. Describe risk factors, physiological and sociological effects for abuse of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs. (10a,v; 10C,iv, TPE 8,9,11).
  7. Classify psychoactive drugs, define their use, abuse and effect on human potential. (10a,v; 10C,iv, TPE 8,9,11).
  8. Describe the impact of nutrition on learning related to youth. (10c, i, iii, TPE 6B, 6C, 8,9).
  9. Research on-line databases related to adolescent health. (10a,i; 10C, (i) iii).
  10. Analyze positive,  negative  and political aspects of family life and sex education.
    (10a,iii,iv; 10C, iii,iv; 10D, TPE 11, 12.
  11. Apply   problem-solving techniques related to student health. (10d TPE 6B,6C, 12).
  12. Identify symptoms, treatment and prevention of sexually transmitted disease, (STDs) related to the adolescent population. (10C, ii, 10e; TPE 8,9,11).
  13. Describe the anatomy and physiology of human reproduction as it relates to sexual responsibility. (10a, (i) iv,v; 10D,iv, TPE 11,12).
  14. Discuss family planning methods, techniques and devices. (10a, iii, iv,v; 10e, TPE 11).
  15. Clarify the educator's role pertaining to child abuse prevention. (10a, iii iv,v; 10C, (i), TPE 11, 12). 
  16. Describe methods to prevent teen pregnancy. (10a, (i) iv,v; 10e, TPE 11)
  17. Analyze major California laws, concepts and principles related to student health and safety. (10C, 10E;   TPE 12) .
  18. Distinguish between situations likely and those unlikely to result in litigation within the school setting. (10C, 10E;   TPE 12).
  19. Synthesize practical teaching methods, techniques and management skills.
    (10c, ii,10e; TPE 8).
  20. Identify common chronic and communicable disease of adolescents and locate specific referral sources when these diseases are recognized at school.
    (10a, iii, iv,v; TPE 8,9).
  21. Discuss how culture, heritage, race, gender, and heredity influence health behaviors. (10a, iii, iv,v; TPE 8,9).
  22. Practice situations related to student health literacy, culture, heritage, race, and gender. (10a, iii, iv,v; TPE 8,9).
  23. Develop a lesson plan or activity incorporating health education information within a designated subject matter area. (TPE 4, 6C, 8,13).

 

Course Outline & Assigned Readings

 

Unit 1         The Art of Teaching  (Matza, Chapters 1,2,3,4)

 

A.            Introduction, Trends/Adolescent Health

B.             Communicating, cultural implications

C.             Listening, modeling

D.            Motivation and student self esteem

D.            Classroom management techniques, discipline

E.             Coordinated health education, state health standards

F.             Professionalism-teacher role modeling

G.            Practical tips for secondary educators

 

Unit 2         Tobacco, Alcohol and Other Drugs  (Matza, Chapters 5,6,7) 

 

A.            Motivations for use, abuse and risk factors

B.             Classification, use and abuse of psychoactive drugs

C.             Problem solving techniques, conflict resolution

D.            Prevention, treatment, referral services

E.             Political implications of tobacco, alcohol and drug addiction

 

Unit 3         The School Health Program  (Matza, Chapter 8)

 

A.        Overview, student health services, instruction, State Framework

B.         Teacher's role in health problems: identification vs. diagnosis

C.         Selected health problems:

1.     nutrition

2.     U.S. obesity epidemic, eating disorders,

3.     teen suicide

4.     unplanned pregnancy

5.     homosexuality

6.     chronic and communicable diseases

7.     confidentiality and student rights

D.        Legal Implications

E.         Problem solving techniques

F.         Health Framework for California Schools, Mandates:

1.     personal health, consumer and community health

2.     injury/violence prevention

3.     tobacco, alcohol and other drugs

4.     nutrition

5.     environmental health

6.     family living, individual growth and development

7.     communicable and chronic disease.
Note: See Manual of School Health (Lewis/Bear) above, for detailed data related to common diseases, etc of teens.

 

Unit 4    Human Sexuality and Family Living  (Matza, Chapters 9,10)

 

A.            Fundamentals-anatomy, physiology, student sexuality

B.             Adolescent sexuality, abstinence and mixed media messages

C.             Family planning methods, techniques, devices

D.            Hot Topics:

1.     controversial issues

2.     condom education

3.     homosexuality

4.     abortion, and the role of the teacher

5.     politics in the  school

E.             Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), HIV disease

Unit 5         Health Education & the Law
(Matza, Chapter  11, Law in the School, Chapters 1-7 {selected reading*} HKRC [on-line] Laws),  & Matza, Chapter 12, Common Health Problems

                 

            A.        Teacher and administrative responsibility:  in loco parentis

            B.        The school setting, physical and health environment

            C.        Legal aspects: computer lab research of   ÒHealthy LawsÓ

            D.        Campus safety and violence prevention

            E.         Child abuse, sexual abuse and the law, prevention methods

            F.         The Health Framework for California Schools

            G.        Education code requirements -Health mandated topics:

family life education, morals manners, citizenship, personal and public health, tobacco, alcohol and drugs,  excuse from health instruction, sex education notification, STD, HIV/AIDS education, nutrition, birth defects, personal beliefs, sexual assault and rape prevention, parenting education, environmental health, anabolic steroids, gang and violence prevention, mental health, personal beliefs and comprehensive school health education. 

 

*Note: Law in the School totals 152 pp. Teachers may wish to print the entire document or print only required reading below (approx 98 pp.):

 

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Law in the School