Health Education & Physical Education Dual Degree

We start you off with young people right away. In your first year, you will spend time at local schools observing and assisting both health education and physical education teachers. Each year the amount of time you spend working directly with students increases. Because you will work in different schools, you will receive a range of experiences with children of different ages.

Your hands-on work culminates with student teaching in your senior year. Supervised by a master teacher, you will spend an entire semester planning, presenting, and participating in classes. You will spend half of the semester delivering a health education curriculum, the other half delivering a physical education curriculum.

The Department has long-standing collaborative relationships with K-12 schools. These partnerships will provide opportunities for you to complete observation hours as well as student teach. These partnerships span schools that are urban, suburban, and rural in nature as well as schools that serve high-needs students. These schools include the Ithaca City Schools as well as schools in Candor, Groton, Dryden, Binghamton, Horseheads, Newfield, Trumansburg, Owego, Newark Valley, Montour Falls, Watkins Glen, and Elmira.