Prerequisites: Completion of all required courses in General Education and in the professional program in health education, and minimum 2.5 GPA for all courses taken at SUNY Brockport; taken concurrently with HLP 485, HLP 491, HLP 492 and HLP 493.
Field experience in health education provides the first semester senior professional health education students opportunities to enhance their knowledge, skills, and attitudes related to their profession in school, community, hospital, and/or worksite settings. Students spend half the semester in a community site, and half the semester in a school site, under the supervision of college and site mentors. The main goal is to help students begin to develop the responsibilities and competencies for entry-level health educators, as outlined by the most recent Competency Update Project (CUP) (NCHEC, SOPHE, & AAHE, 2006).
In preparation for the orientation on Monday, February 20, 4-6 PM in Seymour College Union (Room 119), please become acquainted with the new on-line field experience application process. Under the Tk20 Tutorials column, click APPLICATION: Guidelines for Submitting Health Field Experience Application. You do not need to complete the application prior to the orientation. All procedures, and the application in its entirety, will be discussed at the time of the orientation. It would be helpful for you to print out the first 2 pages of the application instructions, and bring with you to the orientation; hard copies will not be provided. Please note the application deadline isThursday, March 1, 2012 at noon.
HLP 495: Practicum in School Health Education (12 Cr. Spring)
Prerequisites: HLP 485, 486, 491, 492 and 493, minimum 2.5 GPA for all courses completed at SUNY Brockport; and passing score on the Liberal Arts and Science Test (LAST). Click here to access information regarding preparing for the LAST.
The Practicum in School Health Education provides the students with the opportunity to use all of their knowledge and skills on a full-time basis in an elementary and secondary school site under the supervision of a teacher and a health educator respectively. This experience is also an opportunity for students to become proficient in delivering content related to the implementation of the three New York State Learning Standards for Health, Physical Education, and Family and Consumer Sciences.
Download an application for Spring 2012 student teaching.
You will also need the FERPA Consent form for your field applications, please click here to download one.
To download the Professional Education Unit Policy on application deadlines, click here.
Download a Resume Template created by The Office of Career Services at The College at Brockport.
If you are interested in student teaching in New York City through the SUNY Urban Teacher Education Center (SUTEC), you will need to complete an additional application which can be located on the SUTEC website. Click here to obtain additional SUTEC information. Please be sure to submit both the SUTEC student teaching application and the SUNY Brockport student teaching application.
HLP 496: Practicum in Community Health Education (3-12 Cr. Spring)
Prerequisites: HLP 485, 486, 491, 492 and 493, minimum 2.5 GPA for all courses completed at SUNY Brockport.
The Practicum in Community Health Education provides students with the opportunity to function as full-time health educators in community, hospital or work-site settings under the supervision of a health education professional. This experience allows students to develop, implement, and evaluate health education programs as appropriate for the setting.
To download an application and other information regarding Community Internship, click here.
The Department of Health Science has a professional responsibility to deny admission or continuation in any of its undergraduate or graduate programs to any student whose level of performance and/or personal characteristics do not adquately meet academic professional or ethical standards.
All students considering a Department of Health Science program or concentration are invited contact the department's chair or any member of the department faculty for further information and guidance.
Department of Health Science
The College at Brockport
23 Hartwell Hall
350 New Campus Drive Brockport, NY 14420-2979
(585)395–2643
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