Healthy Relationships

What is the Health Relationship Course?

Building strong, respectful connections is an essential life skill. The Healthy Relationships course explores how teachers can help students build that skill by fostering emotional awareness, communication and conflict resolution among students. Educators who take this course learn the skills needed to teach students about the essentials of healthy relationships, including mutual respect, trust, honest communication, self-awareness and shared goals.

Designed for educators at all grade levels, this course offers practical tools and strategies to support healthy relationship education in a school setting. Participants learn to model positive interactions and guide students through difficult social dynamics, as well as teach them how to avoid destructive relationships. The course focuses on supporting educators in creating successful conflict resolution strategies in the classroom. Through self-reflection and engaging activities, educators also develop a deeper understanding of how to create an environment where all students can thrive.

What Will You Learn?

The Healthy Relationships professional development course covers a variety of topics that strengthen an educator’s ability to help students build relationship skills in the classroom. Teachers who complete the course earn PD credits and learn to:

• Document the relationship between healthy relationships and optimal health.
• Describe how family, peers and the media influence students’ relationships.
• Demonstrate strategies to improve or maintain healthy relationships.
• Develop a lesson plan or workshop that focuses on strategies to promote healthy relationships. 
• Describe the purpose and value of a self assessment when creating an action plan to develop and maintain healthy relationships.
• Develop an action plan to build and maintain healthy relationships that incorporates life skills and techniques covered in the course. 

What Are the Assignments and Projects?

Educators can enroll in the Health Relationships course at any time and take up to one year from the registration date to complete all assignments. Modules within the course include:

• Analysis and Application Papers
• Healthy Relationships Action Plan
• Healthy Relationships Lesson Plan
• Healthy Relationships Lesson Plan Reflection
• Healthy Relationships Peer Interview
• Healthy Relationships Website Project

Who Should Enroll in the Healthy Relationships Course?

The Healthy Relationships course is for 6th-14th grade teachers.

What Educators Who Took the Healthy Relationships Course Say

“Great course! There was a lot of practical information that can easily be applied to any health curriculum as well as your personal life.”

- Educator, Massachusetts

“This class gave me all new information for my 9th grade girls health class!”

- Educator, Pennsylvania 

NOTE: Required books must be purchased separately: “Healthy Relationships: Making Good Decisions Begins with You!” by Diana Loiewski and Tarane Sondoozi (2nd ed.); “Making Friends (& Making Them Count),” by E.M. Griffin. 

This course is applicable towards the Health Education Teaching Certificate.