The Ohio Department of Education & Buckeye Healthy Schools Alliance are sponsoring a two day health education workshop for middle and high school health teachers. This workshop is set up as two interactive training sessions designed to teach educators to develop curriculum, teaching units and lessons plans that focus on building the critical thinking and decision making skills students need to establish good health behaviors.

This development opportunity is designed as two full-day workshops scheduled 4 months apart. Participants will meet on November 19th, 2010 and learn how to incorporate characteristics of effective health programs into their health curriculum/ units/ lesson plans then go back to their classrooms to implement and test these strategies. Participants will come back together on February 11th, 2011 to discuss lessons learned and work through their challenges in the classroom. At the end of the training, participants will be able to:

1. State the goal of skill-based health education
2. Describe the Characteristics of Effective Health Education Curricula
3. Apply the Characteristics of Effective Health Education Curricula to a middle school or high school health class
4. Describe the steps needed to adequately teach and assess a health skill
5. Apply the steps for teaching health skills to middle school or high school students
6. Understand health education theory supporting the focus on health behavior outcomes

When: November 19th, 2010 from 9:00 to 5:00 and February 11th, 2011 9:00 to 5:00. Lunch will be provided. 
Where: State Library of Ohio, 274 East 1st Avenue, Suite 100, Columbus, OH 43201-3692
Who: The workshop will be facilitated by Dr. Susan Telljohann and Dr. Joseph Dake of the University of Toledo.

For a detailed flyer including cost, go to http://www.bhsalliance.org/Health_Education_-_A_Skills_Based_Approach.pdf or to access the on-line registration form, go to http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/QSDPRY2.