Study Guide

Objective

The student is able to

- define the key concepts related to healthy exercise and exercise guidance
- finds solutions for the client's individual health-related change needs and knows how to guide the change process
- assess the client's health with various measurements and methods, also utilizing technology and digitality
- use national exercise and nutrition recommendations and evidence-based information in customer-oriented guidance and counseling skills.
- to plan and implement a goal-oriented exercise lesson for the group using different guidance methods
- justify and apply their activities in individual and group exercise, counseling and guidance skills.

Content

- Health exercise and the key concepts of exercise guidance
- Methods and principles of health promotion
- Utilization of various measurement methods and technology in counseling and guidance skills.
- Finnish exercise and nutrition recommendations for different ages and groups
- Principles and possibilities of group guidance
- Possibilities and guidance of applied individual and group exercise in different environments

Teaching methods

The studies consist of lectures, individual and group assignments and practical exercises

Student workload

The course is 5 cr, which corresponds to 135h. The studies consist of lectures, individual and group assignments and practical exercises

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Student

- barely knows how to define the key concepts related to health exercise and exercise guidance
- inadequately finds solutions to the client's health-related individual needs for change and is insufficiently able to guide the change process
- can poorly assess the client's health with various measurements and methods, and the utilization of technology and digitality is insufficient
- inadequately uses national exercise and nutrition recommendations and evidence-based information in customer-oriented guidance and counseling skills.
- to plan and implement a mechanically goal-oriented exercise lesson for the group and the utilization of different guidance methods is insufficient
- does not know how to justify his activities in a versatile and applicable way in individual and group exercise, counseling and guidance skills.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Student

- can define the main concepts related to health exercise and exercise guidance
- partly finds solutions to the client's health-related individual change needs and knows how to guide the change process to some extent
- is able to assess the general characteristics of the client's health with various measurements and methods, also utilizing technology and digitality
- partially uses national exercise and nutrition recommendations and evidence-based information in customer-oriented guidance and counseling skills.
- plan and implement a goal-oriented exercise lesson for the group using different guidance methods
- justify and partially apply their activities in individual and group exercise, counseling and guidance skills.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Student

- can broadly define the key concepts related to health exercise and exercise guidance
- finds versatile solutions for the customer's individual health-related change needs and knows how to guide the change process
- accurately assess the client's health with various measurements and methods, also utilizing technology and digitality
- widely and versatilely uses national exercise and nutrition recommendations and evidence-based information in customer-oriented guidance and counseling skills.
- to plan and implement a target-oriented exercise lesson for the group using different guidance methods
- justify and apply versatile activities in individual and group exercise, counseling and guidance skills.

Assessment methods and criteria

The course assessment is numerical, 1-5, 0= meaning failed