Health Edu Methods Midterm
HBOs
1. Promoting an Alcohol and Other Drug-Free Lifestyle (AOD) 2. Promoting Healthy Eating (HE) 3. Promoting Mental and Emotional Health (MEH) 4. Promoting Personal Health and Wellness (PHW) 5. Promoting Physical Activity (PA) 6. Promoting Safety (S) 7.Promoting Sexual Health (SH) 8. Promote a Tobacco-Free Lifestyle (T) 9. Prevent Violence (V)
Characteristics of an Effective Health Education Curriculum Provides age- and developmentally-appropriate information, learning strategies, teaching methods, and materials.
Curricula address students' needs, interests, concerns, developmental and maturity level, and current knowledge and skill levels. Learning should be relevant and applicable to students' daily lives. Concepts and skills are covered in a logical sequence.
Characteristics of an Effective Health Education Curriculum Includes teacher information and plans for professional development/training that enhances effectiveness of instruction and student learning.
Curricula are implemented by teachers who believe in what they are teaching, are knowledgeable about the curriculum content, and are comfortable and skilled in implementing expected instructional strategies.
Characteristics of an Effective Health Education Curriculum Builds personal competence, social competence and self-efficacy by addressing skills.
Curricula build essential skills that enable students to deal with social pressures and avoid or reduce risk-taking behaviors, such as Communication skills Refusal skills Skills in assessing accuracy of information Decision-making, goal setting, and planning skills Self-management skills
Characteristics of an Effective Health Education Curriculum Provides opportunities to reinforce skills and positive health behaviors.
Curricula build on previously learned concepts and skills and provide opportunities to reinforce health-promoting skills across health content areas and grade levels (e.g., more than one practice application of a skill, skill "booster" sessions at subsequent grade levels or in other academic subjects). Curricula that address age-appropriate determinants of behavior across grade levels and reinforce and build on learning are more likely to achieve longer-lasting results.
Characteristics of an Effective Health Education Curriculum Focuses on specific behavioral outcomes.
Curricula have a clear set of behavioral outcomes. Instructional strategies and learning experiences focus exclusively on these outcomes
Characteristics of an Effective Health Education Curriculum Provides opportunities to make connections with influential others.
Curricula link students to other influential persons and institutions who affirm and reinforce health-promoting norms, beliefs, and behaviors. Instructional strategies engage peers, parents, families, and other significant adults in the community in student learning.
Characteristics of an Effective Health Education Curriculum Provides functional health knowledge that is basic, accurate, and directly contributes to health-promoting decisions and behaviors.
Curricula provide accurate, reliable, and credible information for usable purpose - so students can assess risk, correct misperceptions about social norms, identify ways to avoid or minimize risky situations, examine influences, make behaviorally relevant decisions, and build personal and social competence. A curriculum that relies exclusively or primarily on disseminating information for the sole purpose of improving knowledge is inadequate and incomplete.
Characteristics of an Effective Health Education Curriculum Addresses social pressures.
Curricula provide opportunities for students to address personal and social pressures for engaging in risky behaviors, such as media influences peer pressure social barriers
Characteristics of an Effective Health Education Curriculum Provides adequate time for instruction and learning.
Curricula utilize adequate time to promote understanding of key health concepts and to practice skills. Short-term or "one shot" curricula (e.g., a few hours at one grade level) are generally insufficient to support the adoption and maintenance of healthy behaviors.
Characteristics of an Effective Health Education Curriculum Incorporates learning strategies, teaching methods, and materials that are culturally inclusive.
Curricular materials are free of culturally biased information. Materials include information, activities, and examples that are inclusive of diverse cultures and lifestyles (e.g., gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age, physical/mental ability, and appearance).
Characteristics of an Effective Health Education Curriculum Incorporates learning strategies, teaching methods, and materials that are culturally inclusive.
Curricular materials include strategies that support the cultural diversity of students. optimize relevance to students from multiple cultures. strengthen students' abilities to engage in intercultural interactions. build on the cultural resources of families and communities.
Characteristics of an Effective Health Education Curriculum Skills: Students are guided through skill development steps:
Discussing the importance of the skill, its relevance, and relationship to other learned skills; Presenting steps for developing the skill; Modeling the skill; Practicing and rehearsing the skill using real-life scenarios; and Providing feedback and reinforcement.
Characteristics of an Effective Health Education Curriculum Addresses individual values, attitudes, and beliefs.
Fosters attitudes, values, and beliefs that support positive health behaviors. Provides instructional strategies and learning experiences that motivate students to critically examine personal perspectives, thoughtfully consider new arguments that support health-promoting personal attitudes and values, and generate positive perceptions about protective behaviors and negative perceptions about risk behaviors.
Characteristics of an Effective Health Education Curriculum Uses strategies designed to personalize information and engage students.
Instructional strategies and learning experiences are student-centered, interactive, and experiential (e.g., group discussions, cooperative learning, problem solving, role playing, and peer-led activities). These strategies help students personalize information and maintain their interest and motivation while accommodating diverse capabilities and learning styles.
Characteristics of an Effective Health Education Curriculum Is research-based and theory-driven.
Instructional strategies and learning experiences build on theoretical approaches (e.g., social cognitive theory, social inoculation theory) demonstrated to be effective in influencing health-related behaviors among youth. The most promising curricula go beyond the cognitive level and address the social influences, values, norms, and skills that influence specific health-related behaviors.
Characteristics of an Effective Health Education Curriculum Addresses individual and group norms that support health-enhancing behaviors.
Provides instructional strategies and learning experiences to help students accurately assess the level of risk-taking behavior among their peers (for example, how many of their peers use illegal drugs), corrects misperceptions of peer and social norms, emphasizes the value of good health, and reinforces health-enhancing attitudes and beliefs.
Characteristics of an Effective Health Education Curriculum Health Education Curriculum
Reviews of effective programs and curricula and input from experts in the field of health education have identified characteristics of effective health education curricula.
The Goal of Health Education
To help students adopt or maintain healthy behaviors.
Characteristics of an Effective Health Education Curriculum A summary of curriculum attributes that research findings indicate promote health-enhancing behaviors or change health risk-taking behaviors.
Today's health education curricula reflect the growing body of research that emphasizes teaching functional health information (essential concepts). shaping personal values that support healthy behaviors. shaping group norms that value a healthy lifestyle. developing the essential health skills necessary to adopt, practice, and maintain health-enhancing behaviors.
