As I reflect on our first Health & Fitness Methods class together, I am so excited to begin learning the most effective ways to teach these topics to elementary students. It is so important for us as educators to teach children about health and give them the necessary skills they will need in order to live healthy and happy lives. Helping them realize that their health is their foundation and empowering them to make educated decisions about their own bodies is so important! This knowledge is something they can build off of and take with them throughout their lives.
One aspect from today's class that I hadn't previously thought much about when it comes to teaching about health and fitness is how we as educators need to always keep culture in mind, just as we should always strive to do, when we teach about what is healthy. Definitions of "health," types of behavior, food, acceptance of risky behavior, etc., all very widely from culture to culture, thus, we as teachers need to constantly be aware of our students' different cultures and what this means in terms of their definitons of what "healthy" means.
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