What are some of the best practices for schools around Health education?
Best practices in Health education provide skills-focused instruction that follows a comprehensive, sequential, culturally appropriate K-12 Health education curriculum that addresses all of the New Hampshire Health Education Minimum Standards. • Address the following in Health education instruction: • Assessing personal vulnerability to health risk-taking; • Accurately assessing health risk-taking of peers; • Analyzing the influence of family, peers, culture, and the media on health behaviors; and • Connecting with others who affirm and reinforce health-promoting norms, beliefs, and behaviors. • Ensure that Health education instruction focuses not only on teaching content knowledge but on teaching skills, including: • Decision-making, • Problem-solving, • Accessing reliable health information • Goal-setting, • Communication, • Negotiation and refusal, • Assertiveness, and • Advocacy skills. • Make sure that the Health education curriculum is planned, sequential, and developmentally app
