Skills - Based Health Education provides pre-service and practicing teachers with the pedagogical foundation and tools to develop a comprehensive PreK-12 health education program using the National Health Education Standards. Rather than solely focusing on teaching content, an approach which can prove ineffective in developing healthy behaviors, readers learn to teach the content and skills their students need to be healthy and prepared for the 21st century. The book addresses each one of the national standards with specific directions regarding how to apply the standard, and performance indicators to plan and implement performance tasks that target instruction to a student need. Readers are shown how to establish student need, select content and skill performance indicators to meet the need, and plan and implement assessment and instruction.

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Education & Teaching

Connolly, Mary

Schools & Teaching

Jones& Bartlett Learning

Every new print copy includes access to the Navigate Student Companion Website which includes PDF Worksheets. The Second Edition of Skills-Based Health Education provides pre-service and practicing teachers with the pedagogical foundation and tools to develop a comprehensive PreK-12 health education program using the National Health Education Standards. It takes each standard by grade span, provides scenarios based on research to explain the skill, and then provides a step-by-step approach to planning assessment and instruction. Early chapters connect skills-based health education to coordinated school health and the national initiatives of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Healthy People 2020, The Whole Child, and 21st Century Skills. The remaining chapters provide guidance to plan, implement, and assess performance tasks. Readers are shown how to establish student needs, select content and skill performance indicators to meet those needs, and plan and implement assessment and instructions. Key Features of the Second Edition: - Provides an in depth study of the National Health Education Standards and outlines how to use them to implement skills-based health education - Discusses how to align standards to curriculum, instruction, and assessment - Outlines how to successfully teach health education content through the National Health Education Standards - Addresses the use of formative and summative assessment tools to improve teaching and learning - Incorporates anecdotes from teachers who are currently teaching content through skills

Skills-Based Health Education

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Every new print copy includes 365-day access to the Navigate eBook. Teaching Social and Emotional Learning in Health Education: Applications in School and Community Settings provides instructors with the tools they need to successfully incorporate social and emotional learning into their classrooms. It aligns social and emotional learning to standards-based health education, providing a clear rationale for pairing the two when planning your curriculum. This valuable text trains health educators to connect the Social Emotional Learning (SEL) competencies to the National Health Education Standards (NHES), then design assessment and instruction. 
 About the Author 
Mary Connolly is an accomplished health education professional whose career spans nearly four decades and includes teaching and administration in public schools and higher education. She served on the committee to revise the National Health Education Standards and is a member of the Massachusetts Interdisciplinary Health Education and Human Services Advisory Council and the American School Health Association (ASHA), Coordinator’s Committee, and a reviewer for the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education. Mary presents at numerous state and national conferences and is a member of AAHPERD, AAHE, SOPIE, ASHA, ASCD, and MAAHPERD. She is Adjunct Professor of Health Education at Curry College where she teaches an undergraduate personal health course infused with skills. At Cambridge College, Professor Connolly teaches graduate students Implementing Curriculum in the Health Classroom and Building and Evaluating the Coordinated School Health Program. She lives in Weymouth, MA, with her husband and enjoys a life rich in travelling, ballroom dancing, cycling, cooking, and gardening. She delights in spending quality time with her two children and their spouses, four grandsons, other family, and numerous friends.

Teaching Social and Emotional Learning in Health Education

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Self-advocacy is a key component to meeting the standards in health, physical education, and social-emotional learning. Infusing Self-Advocacy in Health and Physical Education is a unique publication that provides an interdisciplinary approach to promote the benefits of self-advocacy for every child. Through the use of key teaching and learning elements, like real-world scenarios, lessons, and equity and inclusion sections, the text ensures that all instructors are equip with tools to prepare students for life's challenges.

Infusing Self-Advocacy into Physical Education and Health Education

Lieberman, Lauren J.

Childs, Ruth

Skills - Based Health Education provides pre-service and practicing teachers with the pedagogical foundation and tools to develop a comprehensive PreK-12 health education program using the National Health Education Standards. Rather than solely focusing on teaching content, an approach which can prove ineffective in developing healthy behaviors, readers learn to teach the content and skills their students need to be healthy and prepared for the 21st century. The book addresses each one of the national standards with specific directions regarding how to apply the standard, and performance indicators to plan and implement performance tasks that target instruction to a student need. Readers are shown how to establish student need, select content and skill performance indicators to meet the need, and plan and implement assessment and instruction. PowerPoint Presentations and a TestBank are available as free Instructor Downloads. Companion Website includes Flashcards, Glossary, and Web Links. An electronic supplement containing important teaching tools from the text including rubrics, worksheets, and appendices is available with every new text at no additional cost! Simply redeem the 10-digit code to access your ExpressPDF course materials.

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