UK College of Education Health Promotion Education (P-12)

Application InformationRichard Riggs

Professor Richard Riggs

NCATE/EPSB Documents

Welcome to the Health Promotion Education Program at the University of Kentucky! We are particularly proud that you are interested learning more about this most challenging teaching experience. Students with whom you will be working mature, learn, and explore at different rates, seemingly in different directions during their Health Promotion Education Experience. As a classroom teacher engaged in working with young people during this time in their life, you will make similar discoveries about better ways to teach, to manage a classroom, to help a child learn.

Professor Richard Riggs is the Chair of the Health Promotion Education Program faculty.

Our Health Promotion Program Faculty has educators from within the College of Education, faculty from the University community, the Professional Educators from the Bluegrass area, and advanced Health Promotion education students.

Interested prospective students are encouraged to apply to UK and indicate their strong interest in the Health Promotion program. You will note that you apply to UK and to the Teacher Education Program.

 

Program Process Information

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The Health Promotion Education Program offers a breadth of classroom choices and a wealth of field experiences. The combination of these classroom and experiential activities result in graduates who are prepared for many of the Health Promotion challenges! Student community activities include the Health Promotion Association.

Program students and faculty communicate by frequent classroom contact, advising sessions and the LISTSERV for Health Promotion Majors and by their course LISTSERVs.

The Health Promotion Program faculty continuously montior how our program is relevant to the professional challenges so we can adjust our teaching and learning experiences to provide a dynamic preparation for our pre-professional students.
Graduation Information Graduation for our students is extremely important for our program faculty. We take pride in our prepartion for PRAXIS II testing, a standardized test that is recognized by the ESPB for teacher certification. Typically our students do very well on this measure of readiness to teach in the Health Promotions.

The Academic Services and Teacher Certification Office announces test dates and information on graduation deadlines.

The web page that shows the certification requirements across the country is frequently visited by people who are graduating.
Health Promotion Alumni Our alumni teach in schools across the commonwealth and many of the 50 states.

Health Promotion Educators are in great demand across the country; employment opportunities abound!
Health Promotion Resources The Health Promotion Program at UK also maintains a professional educators' resource center. In addition several LISTSERVs are directed toward the Health Promotion Educator.
   
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