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Connecting with our students is an important part of our job as health teachers. This episode shares ideas for embedding how you connect with students into your instructional practice and a Mid-Year 5 Day Challenge to help you be intentional about how you connect with students.

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If you ask five different educators what makes a lesson or activity engaging, you'll probably get five different answers. In today's episode, I talk about what engagement is, and what it isn't, in a health education classroom.

Universal Design for Learning: Engagement

The Skillful Teacher: What Accounts for Student Engagement

Engagement Is Not A Gimic (Brooke Mckinney)

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In this episode, I reflect on teaching with a lens of gratitude and joy. Happy Holidays, everyone!

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Teaching students how to access valid and reliable information has never been more challenging...or more important. In this episode, I answer a health teacher's question about teaching the skill of accessing valid information. I review practical instructional strategies and ways students can access information, products, and services to improve their health and well-being.

Links Mentioned In This Episode:

• National Health Education Standards: Teacher Toolkit
• Common Sense Media: AI Literacy Lessons
• Media Literacy Now Resource Library
• Project Look Sharp
• SIFT Information
• Create a Custom Search Engine

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In this episode, Jeff answers a question about visible thinking routines. He reviews what they are, why they're effective, and how to use them in your health education classroom.

Future episodes will follow a two-week-on, one-week-off format for now. The "off" week might include a shorter episode or a throwback reading of an older newsletter. Still, my focus on the "off" weeks will be sharing information with my email newsletter audience.

Links Mentioned in This Episode:

• Visible Thinking Routines: Project Zero. The place with ALL of the information about VTRs.
• Health Education & VTR: Chart and Examples. A list of example activities using visible thinking routines, with a chart pairing VTRs with skills from the National Health Education Standards.
• See, Think, Wonder and Connect, Challenge, Extend. Two VTRs from an 8th-grade advocacy unit focused on food insecurity.
• Step Inside. A VTR from an 8th-grade advocacy unit focused on food insecurity.
• Decision Making. Experimenting with pairing each step of the DECIDE Model with a VTR. I'm not sure what this will look like this year.
• HPE Collective. Join us!

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In this episode, Jeff answers a question about teaching and assessing the skill of analyzing influences, or National Health Education Standard 2.

Links Mentioned:

• Influence, Content, Explanation Google Doc
• RMC Health
• NHES Teacher Toolkit
• 7th Grade Information Doc

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In this episode, Jeff explains five things he does every day to build connections with his students.

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In this episode, Jeff talks about a unit hook he uses to introduce a unit on analyzing influences using milk, food coloring, and dish soap.

Milk Food Coloring And Dish Soap Experiment ~ Incredible Science

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