Introducing The FUSED Technique to Teaching Health Education—Part 2
Kristen M. Ford, Julie M. Knutson
Abstract
Part 1 of this article described THE FUSED Technique (Ford & Knutson, 2024) as a new pedagogical approach to teaching K–12 health education, blending or fusing the best aspects from the standards-based and skill-based health education teaching models. THE stands for teaching health education and FUSED stands for functional (data driven) information, using health-behavior outcomes (HBOs), skill-based cues, engaging teaching strategies, and daily application in developing health-literate K–12 students. The FUSED Hourglass (Figure 1) was designed to provide health educators with a progressive itinerary to design a transformative health learning experience for students. There are two main parts to the FUSED Hourglass — planning and implementation — and each is divided into phases. Part 1 of the article described how to follow Phases 1 through 7 to build a FUSED unit and lesson. This article, Part 2, describes how to implement a FUSED lesson by applying Phases 9 through 14.