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Promoting Health and Fitness Careers in High Schools

A COMMON GOAL OF PUBLIC school and university educators is to prepare students to succeed in their chosen career. Even with this similar goal, there is often a lack of collaboration between the local university and the local public school system in specific content areas. Lack of collaboration is unfortunate, because common efforts between these groups have the potential to take both programs to a more productive level with a greater collective impact on their students and community. This paper describes a pilot collaboration between a public high school and a university. The collaboration incorporates the technology and personnel of a university’s exercise physiology lab in instructional modules conducted for students in a public high school’s health and fitness careers program. Through interaction with exercise physiologists and cutting edge technology, the high school students may become better aware of the science of exercise, benefits of health and fitness, opportunities for higher education in exercise science, and potential for careers in health and fitness.