tailieunhanh - GRADE LEVEL CONTENT EXPECTATIONS

This approach offers a vision of school education within which health education seems to fit very well. The vision goes far beyond preparing young people to be economically productive or simply seeing education as some form of specialized training to meet government priorities. In many countries people recognize that the wider ethos and social climate of the school is important as a context for learn- ing in the classroom. This is compatible with a broad view of health and provides opportunities to explore its social and mental health dimensions. However, it could be argued that the reality of the curriculum does not always fully match the lan- guage. | w Department of. Education EALTH EDUCATION GRADE LEVEL CONTENT EXPECTATIONS Kindergarten Welcome to Michigan s Health Education Content Standards and Expectations for Kindergarten Why Develop Content Expectations for Health Good health is necessary for academic success. Like adults at work students at school have difficulty being successful if they are depressed tired bullied stressed sick using alcohol or other drugs undernourished or abused. Research shows that effective health education helps students increase their health knowledge and improve their health skills and behaviors especially those behaviors that have the greatest effect on health. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC has identified the risk behavior areas that have the greatest effect on the short-term and long-term health of young people. Patterns of unhealthy eating physical inactivity and tobacco use are often established in childhood and adolescence and are by far the leading causes of death among adults. Injury and violence including suicide and alcohol-related traffic crashes are the leading causes of death among children and youth. Each year approximately one in four Michigan high school students reports having consumed five or more drinks in a row during the previous month. These behavioral areas should be emphasized in an effective elementary health education program healthy eating physical activity alcohol tobacco and other drug prevention and injury and violence prevention. In its Policy on Comprehensive School Health Education the State Board addresses these risks by making certain recommendations. The following are those intended for Kindergarten through Grade Three. Provide at least 50 hours of health at each grade Prekindergarten through Grade Twelve to give students adequate time to learn and practice health habits and skills for a lifetime. Focus on helping young people develop and practice personal and social skills such as communication and decision making in order