Syllabus
Health determinants and possibilities to influence them.
Health literacy and its role in health care, development priorities.
Methods of education towards healthy lifestyle respecting health as a state of physical, mental and social well-being.
Educational area 'Human and health' as a part of curricular documents and possibilities of implementing health education aims in primary and special education.
Objectives and content of health education in the education of pupils with special educational needs, holistic approach to health.
Strategy and school programs for risk behavior prevention
The role of motivation in health education, learning activation.
Forms and methods of education towards healthy lifestyle (education towards nutritional habits, sport and relaxation, risk behavior prevention, protection for extraordinary events and laic first aid etc.)
Current issues of education towards partnership and parenthood
Health-promoting school - a comprehensive program developing health literacy
Health promoting projects in schools (preparation, implementation, evaluation) - assessment, assistant practice
Annotation
The course provides special education students with space to practice their teaching skills in developing programs aimed at health promotion of pupils with special educational needs. It presents specific suggestions for integrating the 'Human and health' topics into education (right nutritional habits, prevention of addictive behavior, providing first aid), procedures of creating health promoting school projects, incl. programs of risk behavior prevention of pupils.