No matter the subject you teach, it is important to Public Health.
Whether you teach Social Studies, English Literature, Art, Math, or Science - current events in public health are excellent case studies that can put the subject into the context of the world beyond the classroom.
The What Is Public Health Resources webpage can connect you to material you can incorporate into your lesson plans, and share with your students. The following links are some sample resources.
Infusing classroom curriculums with a dose of public health is probably easier than you think. Children already grow up learning to wear their seat-belts and to wash their hands, along with a number of other basic public health protocols. As an educator, it is important to capitalize on what your students already know, and furthermore to nurture that knowledge until students fully comprehend that public health is everyone's health. After all, we are only as healthy was the world we live in.
Information for Counselors
School Counselors work with students of all ages and stages. Working with high school students and providing guidance on potential careers can prove challenging, while also helping students get into college and triaging students' personal issues.
Regardless, advising students on their career paths is a critical part of a counselor's responsibilities. A counselor is one of the best resources for a student in pursuit of higher education. Students rely on counselors to assist with the following:
- Identify post-secondary options consistent with interests, achievement, aptitude, and abilities.
- Seek co-curricular and community experiences to enhance academic and personal interests.
- Develop career awareness, honing in on the long-term objective of higher education leading to a fulfilling career.
- Identify personal skills, interests and abilities and relate them to a career path.
There are many career paths that fall under the rubric of "public health." The What Is Public Health website is a good introductory resource for counselors and students alike to explore public health education and careers.
One of the benefits of pursuing an education, and then a career, in public health is that the field is so broad that students will find their mobility between different work settings practically endless. Public health workers are found in classrooms, in clinics, in corporations, and even in the furthest corners of the world helping other communities develop healthy environments. To top it all off, the U.S. faces a shortage in public health workers (for more information click here) - giving qualified personnel job security that is paralleled in few other industries.
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