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Reece, Lindsey

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SUNY College Cortland Digital Commons @ Cortland COR 101 Slides COR 101 Student Symposium 2022 Maintaining Health and Wellness in College Lindsey Reece Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/corslides  Part of the Higher Education Commons Maintaining Health and Wellness in CollegeS T U D E N T  F A C I L I T A T O R :  L I N D S E Y  R E E C EI N S T R U C T O R :  D R .  A N N  B L A N T O NS E C T I O N :  C O R  1 0 1 - 0 0 2Topic• For my lesson I chose the topic of How to Maintain Health and Wellness While Adjusting to College. I reflected on what health and wellness is and the three main types; Physical, Mental/Emotional and Social. I explained the importance of maintaining your health and gave them tips on how to do that. I also gave them on campus resources that can help them maintain their health and wellness.Why I Chose This Lesson• I chose this topic because it is a common misperception that college students are overall a healthy demographic. When in reality, the traditional college age range (18-24) has proven to be a critical period of development where individuals have a worse health profile than other age groups (Lederer). Navigating the new context of college during an impressionable time in their lives can cause first year students to partake in unhealthy behaviors that can have long lasting health impacts (Agans). It can also be very easy to overlook your health when coming to college. When adjusting to all the changes that happen when you go to college for the first time, developing healthy habits is not often at the top of many first-year student's list of priorities. However, I hoped to express to my students just how important it is to remember take care of themselves. I wanted each of them to be aware of the potential negative side effects of overlooking any area of health. Your physical, mental/emotional, and social health are all inter-connected and all play a crucial rule in being successful in college. Neglecting any of these areas will cause students to not live up to their full potential. I wanted to share on campus resources as well as tips to help first year students maintain their health/wellness and thrive during their time here at SUNY Cortland.Class Activities/ Methods• I started off the class with a short, three question anonymous survey about how they were feeling overall. They were able to see how everyone in the class was feeling. This opened a great discussion between the students.Class Activities/Methods Cont.I created a power-point that covered what physical, mental/emotional, and social is, why it is important, tips to maintain your health in each area, as well as on campus resources. My power-point was my main method of sharing information..• .Methods Cont.In my presentation I included an interesting video that discusses what happens to your body when you deprive it of sleep.Video:https://youtu.be/Y-8b99rGpkMClass Activities Cont.• I ended class by giving them a personal wellness quiz to help them reflect on their overall health and wellness. The survey was for their eyes only and covered all different areas of health, including areas not discussed in my presentation. It was my hope that they could take what they learned from my lesson and apply it to help improve their scores.ReflectionWhile preparing the lesson there were two main things that I did not want to happen. I did not want to get through everything I had planned with a lot of extra time left; and I did not want the students to be bored and disengaged. I tried to incorporate many different methods into my lesson to keep them engaged. I planned to give my lesson in a way that did not come across as a lecture. I wanted to make it a point that I understand how following these health tips can be difficult in college. I planned on telling them that I am also guilty of not always following my own tips.Reflection Cont.Overall, I felt very good about how the lesson went. Starting off class with the survey sparked a lot of discussion between the students. Many of them talked to myself and each other about classes they were struggling with, if they were getting enough sleep and other things that were upsetting/stressing them. Our class discussion was the perfect way for me to segue into the lesson. During the lesson, the students seemed engaged the whole time; they were all watching me not looking at phones/computers. Throughout my presentation, I often asked questions that sparked more discussion in the classroom. I felt that I presented my lesson in a way that was relatable to them and engaging.Reflection Cont.I did not struggle taking up the whole class time like I had worried about. I had one more activity that I had planned to do with the students that I did not have enough time for. I had prepared a 20 question Kahoot! based on the material covered in my presentation and brought prizes for the winner. I had told them about it at the beginning of the class and they were excited, but unfortunately, I underestimated how long it would take to get through everything and did not get the Kahoot!.Citations• Agans, Jennifer P., et al. “College Students’ Perceptions of Healthy and UnhealthyLeisure: Associations with Leisure Behaviour.” Leisure Studies, vol. 41, no. 6, 2022, pp. 787–801., https://doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2022.2055773.• Lederer, Alyssa, and Mary Hoban. “The Development of the American College HealthAssociation-National College Health Assessment III: An Improved Tool to Assess and Enhance the Health and Well-Being of College Students.” Journal of American College Health, vol. 70, no. 6, 2021, pp. 1606–1610., https://doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2020.1834401.

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