About Us
About Valerie A. Ubbes, PhD, CHES
- Email: ubbesva@muohio.edu
- Webpage: http://www.units.muohio.edu/EAP/departments/phe/Ubbes.htm
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I am a Certified Health
Education Specialist and an
associate professor of health
education at Miami University
(Oxford, OH). My primary
responsibility as a teacher
educator is to prepare teachers
in health education, preK-12.
My desire to increase the
instructional time for health
education in elementary
classrooms led me to create the
Children's Picture Book Database
at Miami University (CPBD@MU),
which is a technological tool
for designing
interdisciplinary curricula by
topics, concepts, and skills.
Teaching
My primary teaching
responsibilities include: (1)
teaching Early Childhood
Education majors their one-time
health education course before
becoming certified to teach all
subjects, and (2) preparing Health
Education majors to understand the
dynamic relationship between
teaching and learning through
their professional coursework,
field work, and student teaching
internship.
Scholarship
My scholarship focuses on
mapping the use of
educational theories, namely
constructivism theory and
multiple intelligence theory,
within the discipline of health
education. Inquiry projects, like
the CPBD@MU, can help all teachers
to think critically about the
ongoing decisions they make about
curriculum, instruction, and
assessment. I am committed to
teaching for understanding
through multiple ways of knowing,
personal meaning making, and
collaborative, learner-centered
relationships. I am also interested
in using academic service learning
as a pedagogy in health education.
Service
My service within professional
organizations involves
improving the health status of
children and youth through
intraprofessional teaming, known
nationally as the Coordinated
School Health Program (CSHP)
model. I am particularly
interested in how school health
instruction articulates with
health-related programming
before, during, and after school for
students, faculty, and staff.
Connecting academics with learner-
centered health issues helps to
bring public education and
public health agenda together,
which ultimately helps to
establish health-promoting
schools and communities.
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