EDU 208 - Children’s Healthy Living

Offered FL, WI
Lecture- 2
2 credit hrs/2 contact hrs
This course is designed to promote the whole child theory as an approach for educators. It will utilize teaching strategies focused on the whole child, supporting their intellectual/cognitive, social/emotional, and physical development. Students will study how to appraise a child’s sense of security, health, and general well-being, and how to develop responsive curricula including physical education, play, and the performing arts to promote learning and develop positive behaviors and attitudes.

Student Learning Outcomes:

Prepare activities/lessons that demonstrate an understanding of typical and atypical whole child development, and are considerate of physical, social-emotional, aesthetic, and cognitive developmental milestones.
Describe how to assess the safety, sense of security, and emotional health of children and develop responsive interventions to promote learning and general well-being.
Develop play-themed activities/lessons supporting physical and psychological fitness for typical and atypically developing children.
Identify the individual variables of a child’s development relevant to self-regulation, including executive function, symbolic representation, and effortful control.
Explain a variety of complex characteristics of individuals, families, and communities that influence a child’s development such as gender, ability, age, home language, family structure, race, and ethnicity.