Design curriculum to activate learners.
We teach by engaging learners in the classroom, the community, and online, through a learner-centered approach to teaching and curriculum development. Our instructional design makes learning fun, interactive, and skills-focused across delivery systems.
CLG members develop and teach curricula for a variety of audiences:
- Clinicians, public health professionals, and health professions faculty and students
- Community-based adult educators and learners, K-12 teachers and students, and young adults
We teach to promote understandable health information for all:
- Health professionals and faculty learn evidence-based communication techniques that can improve outcomes.
- Adult educators learn how to build health into curricula to improve student learning and self advocacy.
Curricula for health professionals, faculty, and students include:
- Population trends that emphasize the need for closing the communication gap
- Evidence-based practices in health communication
- How to carry out a system-wide communication audit
- How to use a readability formula
- Skill building in plain language and document design
- Skills for teaching the next generation of health profession students
Curricula for school-based and literacy educators and learners include:
- Accessing health care – navigating the system, using the telephone, making an appointment, learning how health insurance works, accessing free and low-cost services
- Taking medicines – reading medication labels, calculating dosages, measuring amounts
- Searching for health information on the Internet – basic computer skills, determining content accuracy, identifying reliable information sources
- Nutrition – vocabulary, calculating body weight, understanding portion sizes
- Tobacco education – practicing math skills, calculating the cost of smoking
- Cancer screening and prevention – reading, writing, and oral presentation skills