What?

As a collaborative group, we consist of four physical education and health teachers from the K-12 grade levels. The purpose of our site is to inform students, teachers, and the community on the importance of living a healthy lifestyle.

As a group we are working on building a shared vision of teacher education from looking at our own experiences and knowledge in this subject. Our site is entitled “A Journey through Wellness.” There are three main issues we look at in depth that deal with the idea of wellness and living a healthy lifestyle. They are mental and emotional health, physical health, and social health. In some ways, each part of health interacts with the other.

When looking at the mental and emotional aspects of health, we gear in on important issues such as, how to cope with stress, the types of mental disorders, the idea of self esteem, etc.

When looking at the social aspect of health, we have information on issues such as, how to build a healthy relationship, violence prevention, etc.

And our physical health aspects show the types of diets, nutrition, also the seriousness of drugs, smoking and alcohol, etc.

Our site is very informative and is geared toward the students, teachers and the community as a whole and individually.

An increase in physical activity has been associated with an increased life expectancy and a decrease risk of cardiovascular disease (American Heart Association, 1996).

Why?

As a collaboration group we are focusing on the Personal Mastery discipline. This best fits our group because it includes children and adults, as an individual and as a community. Our site will touch on many specific points used in personal mastery. The strength of our site will be shown when readers learn through their own interest and curiosity. We will have a number of pages, all different, all interesting for different readers. Also, readers will be able to set goals after looking at a specific interest from our wellness site.