Postgraduate Specialist in Sports-Oriented and Healthy Schools (SSGS) to start next school year

In brief

Promoting a healthy lifestyle is receiving increasing attention in primary, secondary and vocational education. With the postgraduate programme Specialist in Sports-Oriented and Healthy Schools in Leiden or Zwolle, you will become the specialist at your school in the broadest sense of the word when it comes to health. Schools need teachers with the knowledge, passion and talent to give health and physical activity a prominent place in the school.
Do you have an affinity with physical activity and health? Then this programme may be for you! Become a specialist and start promoting a healthy lifestyle at your school. With the knowledge and skills you acquire during this programme, you will soon play a key role at your school.

Who is this postgraduate programme intended for?

Are you a primary or secondary school teacher, vocational education teacher or team leader? And do you need more in-depth knowledge and skills in promoting a healthy lifestyle among pupils or students at your school? Would you like practical tools for guiding change at your school? Then the postgraduate programme Specialist in Sports-Oriented and Healthy Schools is for you. In any case, you must be working at a school to take this programme. It is also important that you are given the opportunity to carry out the practical assignment at your school.

What you will learn

You will specialise as an agent of change. How do you involve your school in the transition towards becoming a Healthy School? With the knowledge and skills you acquire during the programme, you will soon play a key role. How do you ensure that attention is paid—and continues to be paid—to various health themes such as nutrition, media literacy, relationships and sexuality, wellbeing, physical activity and sport? The programme provides practical tools to get started with these topics at your school and to change and optimise policy from within.

Programme

In addition to change processes, the Healthy School approach is central. Based on the four pillars of identification, education, environment and policy, you will work structurally and integrally on health themes in your own practical situation. Communication with the parties involved is crucial to successfully transform the school into a sports-oriented and healthy school.

For information: Leiden University of Applied Sciences and Windesheim University of Applied Sciences