Healthful Living Essay
Rational
Context:
These essays were created for the purpose of completion of HED 3645 under the advisement of
Dr. Janowiak, a professor at The UNC Chapel Hill Friday Center’s Online Courses, he is also a
Professor at Appalachian State University. These essays were a requirement to complete HED
3645 online course work; I completed the course during the Fall of 2009. Assortments of
resources were used in writing the papers. The lesson included web resources, videos, and
online handouts as methods for teaching Healthful Living objectives aligned from the North
Carolina Standard Course of Study.
Impact:
This particular project and this class in general, has caused me to look at the lives that my
students lead and my life. It has allowed to me understand the needs of the human body in both
adults and in children, which as an educator is very important. I think it is important for me to
understand the reasons kindergartners do not have a very long attention span, but by allowing
them to move about during instruction I can keep them on task and learning for a much longer
amount of time. Overall, I must say that the essays have allowed me to take a step back and look
at the standards, my students, and the pressures that they have placed on them by society and
their peers; then take the two and mesh them so that I can create lessons that will impact the lives
of my students.
Alignment:
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Goal I: Teachers align their instruction with the NC Standard Course of Study.
o I have met this goal by writing about lesson planning and instruction, based off of
the North Carolina Standard Course of Study.
Goal II: Teachers know the content appropriate to their teaching specialty.
o I have met this goal by showing extensive research and understanding of several
different types of student well being, I have also included the sources that I have
used to create these essays so that one can see that I have the knowledge to search
for and find reputable resources in the healthful education field.