Degree Earned
Bachelor of Science: Community Health Education, teaching concentration in school health education

About The Program

Completion of this NCATE-accredited program prepares students to teach health in K-12 classrooms in Maine and in approximately 30 other states. Classroom-based research, on-campus work opportunities, and service learning projects are led by faculty with a broad range of specialties including all of the health-related content areas required by law for instruction: substance abuse prevention, personal health, nutrition, environmental health and human sexuality, among others. Core and program requirements are supplemented by a semester-long practicum and a semester of student teaching.

Learning Goals and Outcomes

Students will learn to assess individual and community needs for health education.
Students will learn to conduct evaluation and research related to health education.
Students will learn to communicate and advocate for health and health education.
Students will learn to implement health education strategies, interventions and programs.
Students will learn to serve as health education resource people.
Students will learn to plan health education strategies, interventions and programs.
Students will learn to administer health education strategies, interventions and programs.

Maine's Ten Standards for Initial Teacher Certification are an essential component of the Conceptual Framework for the University of Maine Farmington (UMF) College of Education, Health and Rehabilitation.  All UMF teacher candidates must demonstrate, based on the performance criteria, how they meet the Standards in order to be recommended by UMF for state certification at the time of their graduation.
Standard 1: Demonstrates knowledge of the central concepts, tools of inquiry, and structures of the discipline s/he teaches and can create learning experiences that make these aspects of subject matter meaningful to students.

Standard 2: Demonstrates the ability to integrate concepts, tools of inquiry, and structures among the discipline.

Standard 3: Demonstrates knowledge of the diverse ways in which students develop and learn by providing learning opportunities that support students intellectual, physical, emotional, and social development.

Standard 4: Plans instruction based upon knowledge and subject matter, students, and curriculum goals.

Standard 5: Understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies and materials and appropriate technologies.

Standard 6: Creates and maintains a classroom environment which supports and encourages learning.

Standard 7: Demonstrates the ability to support students learning and well being by engaging students, home, school, colleagues, and community.

Standard 8: Understands and uses a variety of formal and informal assessment strategies to evaluate and support the development of the learner.

Standard 9: Demonstrates an awareness of and commitment to ethical and legal responsibilities of a teacher.

Standard 10: Demonstrates a strong professional ethic and a desire to contribute to the education profession.

Requirements (For course descriptions click on a course number below)