Health Education Development/Assessment

Your learning outcomes from studying this subject can be assessed through your assignments. Your assignments must contain evidence that you have achieved the following learning outcomes:

Conduct a session
Plan and conduct a session which facilitates learning for a chosen community using relevant health education and cooperative learning theoretical frameworks.
 * 1) Identify health education philosophy and principles;
 * 2) Be familiar with, and critically analyse models of behaviour change applicable to health promotion planning;
 * 3) Plan and document an educational session suitable for a specified group;
 * 4) Facilitate cooperative learning within a group in various settings.

Facilitate cooperative learning
Develop the skills to enable people within a variety of settings to identify and attain critical aspirations and facilitate cooperative learning within the group taking account of their specific learning needs and cultural characteristics.
 * 1) Account for participant diversity and differences in learning/teaching preferences;
 * 2) Examine and apply knowledge of societal values in planning and implementing health education approaches;
 * 3) Demonstrate health education and group facilitation skills specifically tailored to consider cultural, gender, age and other differences

Critically appraise health education
Critically appraise various approaches to health education development
 * 1) Consider options for evaluating health education activities;
 * 2) Critically analyse relevant literature and health education strategies;
 * 3) Critically reflect on your own health education experiences and practice.

Other attributes
Your assignments should also contain evidence that you can:
 * 1) Competently use the technologies that are relevant in your discipline.
 * 2) Identify and access authoritative information
 * 3) Make accurate observations and develop reasonable inferences.
 * 4) Describe and contrast different approaches to drawing and justifying inferences from observations.
 * 5) Communicate effectively using a variety of modes, technologies and media in an integrated manner.
 * 6) Use contextually sensitive written and oral skills to engage others in effective communication in a variety of settings.
 * 7) Develop and present a rigorous argument that is relevant and appropriately targeted for a given audience.
 * 8) Use effective independent work skills as appropriate to your own discipline.
 * 9) Work in a team, and evaluate your own and others’ behaviours in a team setting, communicate effectively and manage conflict, brainstorm, and encourage others.
 * 10) Use effective leadership and organisational skills, including managing collaborations, negotiating differences, educating, and influencing the thinking and behaviour of others.
 * 11) Plan and determine the effectiveness of your own work.
 * 12) Find, investigate and describe relationships between observations and new, complex information that pertains to your discipline.
 * 13) Independently, and as part of a team, examine, select, use and evaluate various approaches to develop solutions to new complex problems and issues.
 * 14) Apply creative thinking and problem-solving strategies to new situations.
 * 15) Demonstrate awareness of social and environmental issues (within Australia and internationally) and their impact on health,  health care and the community.
 * 16) Maintain high ethical standards, and deal with ethical dilemmas.
 * 17) Be able to practise in accordance with professional values and ethics in a socially diverse community.