• Do NOT email Dr. Maney with questions on assignment one!  If you have questions, go to office hours or email her for an appointment.
• Assignment number one is due Wednesday.

EVALUATION OF SCHOOL HEALTH INSTRUCTION

• Procedure used to measure the results of efforts toward a goal.

• national health education standards
• based on health education at the school and community levels
• curriculum
• Does it make a difference? That is, are the students learning anything?
• The curriculum should be planned, organized, sequential, have a k-12 focus, and should promote increasing health and preventing disease.
• students
• teacher

• Adheres to a plan in which an adequate amount of time is spent on health education.
• 30 minutes a day at elementary level is desirable, but it is up to each individual teacher.
• Focuses on health education standards and mastery of performance.
• Grades 4, 8, 11.
• Provides a foundation of health knowledge.
• Content must be present.
• Promotion of life skills.
• Focuses on health literacy.
• Critical thinking
• Problem Solving
• Being a good citizen
• Uses teaching strategies that are motivating and highly interactive.
• Hands on experience in practicing life skills.
• Provides right and left brain learning activities.
• Vary teaching styles: incorporate music, activity, and cognition.
• Provides opportunities for inclusion of special needs students.
• Uses a multicultural approach.
• For example, nutrition education and ethnic diversity.
• Provides opportunities for curriculum infusion.
• How to incorporate health into other subjects such as math, history, art, etc.
• Includes the family.
• Uses community resources.
• For example, the cancer society.
• Uses a positive approach to health education.
• Includes technology.