Trainings: Make It or Break It

As someone who sat through many training sessions I think I am more than qualified to say what makes or breaks a training especially with the lesson from this week. I am going to keep it to OSU classes. I took a required health class at OSU that I found relatively useless. It offered at the best a discussion about how to read about health when it came to food selection and exercise but at its worst it felt it was plagued with many subtexts about acceptance of weight and other social issues despite that not being the reason someone was there. It also required you to upkeep a log that tracked your health patterns but obviously this could be cheated because it was self reported. Analyzing it it had resources but lacked skill practice in the setting. (Lecture 1) 

A class I found extremely useful was intro to public health. It was taught in a format that made you have to have emotional investment adding to its presentation with it being harder subjects to be hands on with. It also utilized tophat to cause discussions within the topics whereas the personal health class was so centric toward facts that we all have to look at every day where public health had so many fallouts that we don’t often see. (Lecture 1) 

Evaluating both I had found the personal health class was repetitive information that gets addressed in other settings. Public health was more centric to exposing you to new ideas and theory that lead to your understanding. Generally the presentation through lecture was telling and it really made or broke them. (Lecture 1)