Friday, January 29, 1999
Announcements:
                           Today we will have our first attendance check.
Lecture notes:

Mental Health (the first of the ten content areas within School Health Instruction)

• You, the teacher, should increase the self concept of the elementary school children thereby decreasing negative health outcomes.
                  --examples of negative health outcomes
• academic failure
• personal failure
• inadequacy
• insecurity
• low self esteem
• poor self image
• alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use
• unplanned pregnancy
• violence
• Self-concept---deals with perception. 
                  a.) how you perceive yourself
                  b.) how you perceive others perceive you
• Self-esteem---how worthy or valuable a person considers him/herself to be
                    ---deals with three things
                  a.) perception
                  b.) how kids want to be/act
                  c.) expectations children perceive others as having for them
• What can you, the teacher, do to increase the children's self-esteem?
• Help students view themselves realistically by reinforcing positive behaviors and ignoring their negative behaviors.  This will result in an increase in positive behaviors.