379Thursday, April 14, 2005
10:15 AM-12:15 PMConvention Center:E353b
AAHE/School K-12
Delivering Multicultural Health Education
A team of students teachers from Canada have engaged in a collaborative venture with local educators to launch the first network of health promoting schools in the Eastern Carribbean. participants will learn about the process, activities, and outcomes of this project. This session will also focus on the essential elements of making health education content more comprehensible to English Language Learners, and low literacy students. Strategies and best practices for working with diverse students will be presented. Project PATH, which uses culturally appropriate health messages to impact the lifestyle behaviors of high school students in predominately latino schools will be presented. Participants will also learn about a successful ELL coaching program offered in St. Paul, MN. The program is designed to increase ELL student achievement by coaching classroom teachers in how to best meet the needs of the ELL health education students in their mainstream classroom.
Keyword(s): curriculum development, multiculturalism/cultural diversity
Presider: Katherine Wilbur, Maine Department of Education, Augusta, ME
Speakers:
Delivering Culturally Appropriate Health Messages to 9th Grade Latinos - Project PATH
James R. Morrow Jr.1, Eva Pena2, Scott B. Martin3, Shannon J. FitzGerald4, Hector Balcazar5, Allen W. Jackson6, Casie Hamilton7, Francisco Soto Mas5, Frederick Fridinger5 and James R. Morrow Jr.1, (1)University Of North Texas, Highland Village, TX, (2)UNT-Health Science Center, Denton, TX, (3)North Texas/Univ Of, Denton, TX, (4)The Cooper Institute, Dallas, TX, (5)UNT-Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX, (6)Highland Village, TX, (7)University of North Texas, Denton, TX
Designing and Implementing an ELL Coaching Program for Mainstream Health Education Teachers
John L. Rohwer, Bethel University, Saint Paul, MN and Bob Wandberg, St. Paul Public Schools, Minneapolis, MN
Improving Health Education for ELL Students in the Mainstream Classroom
John L. Rohwer, Bethel University, Saint Paul, MN and Bob Wandberg, St. Paul Public Schools, Minneapolis, MN
Initiating Health Promoting Schools in the Eastern Caribbean: Student Teachers in Action
Andy T Anderson1, Erin Hobin2 and Joanna Sheppard1, (1)University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, (2)University of Toronto, toronto, ON, Canada

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