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Health Education_________________________________________ |
Health Education is a comprehensive curriculum taught sequentially from kindergarten through twelfth grade. The curriculum addresses the physical, mental, emotional and social dimensions of health. The curriculum should be designed to motivate and assist students to maintain and improve their health, prevent disease, and reduce health-related risk behaviors. It allows students to develop and demonstrate increasingly sophisticated health-related knowledge, attitudes, skills, and practices. A comprehensive health education curriculum would include topics such as:
In Michigan the Michigan Model for Comprehensive School Health Education, is the state’s model health curriculum. It was developed in 1983 and continues to be supported and updated through a statewide collaborative effort. The U.S. Department of Education’s Panel on Safe and Drug-Free Schools has named the Michigan Model a “promising program” for drug and violence prevention. To learn more about the complete scope and sequence of the Michigan Model, visit the web site at: www.emc.cmich.edu/mm/SSdownload.htm Does your school have a health education curriculum? If so, what are they teaching at each grade level? The Michigan Model Scope and Sequence chart that can be downloaded at the above referenced web site will provide you with a base line comparison for comprehensive health education curriculum K-12. 2003 Michigan Youth Risk Behavior Survey – Depression and Suicide The Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) is conducted every other year in Michigan and assesses a broad range of health practices among a cross section of the state’s high school students. The 2003 Michigan survey included 99 questions covering the behaviors related to the leading causes of mortality and morbidity among both youth and adults. The behaviors are grouped into six general health risk areas: Unintentional injury and violence; tobacco use; alcohol and other drug use; sexual behaviors that contribute to unintended pregnancy or disease; dietary behaviors; and physical inactivity. To view the survey results go to: http://www.emc.cmich.edu/YRBS/2003/default.htm |
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