Comprehensive Health Education

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Comprehensive Health Education
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What is Comprehensive Health Education?

• Motivate students to improve their own health
  through positive self-direction K-12.
• Focus on all dimensions of health Spiritual,
  Social, Physical, Environmental, Emotional,
  Intellectual
• Balance
• Empowerment (self-efficacy)

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Definition

• A planned, sequential age-appropriate curriculum
  of experiences, developed by qualified
  professionals to promote the development of
  knowledge, health-related skills, and positive
  attitudes toward health and well-being for
  students in kindergarten through grade 12.

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Health Education

• Three Goals
• Focuses on responsibility
• Provides skills and knowledge
• Creates critical thinkers

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Major Content Areas in Health Education

• Nutrition
• Personal health
• Family life
• (sex education, aging, death dying)
• Substance abuse
• Mental/Emotional Health

• Safety
• Consumer health (hospitals, medications, dealing
  with own health)
• The environment
• Chronic
• Infectious
• Diseases

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My Job

• Comprehensive Health Education PreK-12
• Follow National and State Curriculum Standards

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Trainings

• Food Safety in the Classroom
• Girl Talk
• TAKE 10!
• Michigan Model

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TAKE 10!

• A classroom based physical activity program for
  K-5
• It is not a curriculum, but a curriculum tool
• Integrates academic learning objectives (in
  Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, Science
  Health
• Allows Students to be active within space
  limitations of a standard-size classroom

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Michigan Model

• K-12 comprehensive health education curriculum.
• Nationally acclaimed school health education
  program
• Facilitates interdisciplinary learning through
  lessons that integrate health education into
  other curricula, including language arts, social
  studies, science, math and art.
• Skill-based Instruction.

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Why Train Others? Why dont I just teach?

• There is ONE of me and 9 schools!

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What are the holes I am filling in Loudon
County?

• Nutrition
• Physical Activity
• Teen Pregnancy
• Tobacco Cessation/Prevention
• Bullying
• Staff Wellness

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Nutrition

• MI Model
• Extension Activities
• TNCEP UT Extension

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Physical Activity

• TAKE 10!
• Fitness is Fun 5K 1 Mile Walk/Run
• Girls On the Run
• GoTrybe

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Teen Pregnancy

• Teen Pregnancy Task Force
• Media Campaign
• Choosing Curriculum Programs
• Programs for Expecting Parenting Teens
• Programs for Parents

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Tobacco Cessation/Prevention

• TAP/TEG
• TEG is a practical, science-based program that
  will show you how to effectively deal with
  students who violate a schools tobacco policy
• TAP provides tobacco-using youth with the
  options, resources, education, motivation, and
  support to stop using tobacco.

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Staff Wellness

• Staff Wellness Fitness Center
• Team in Training

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Any Questions?

• Thank You!
• Melisa Fuhrmeister
• Health Educator
• Loudon County Schools
• [phone] ext. 4610