School health education and promotion: current approaches and critical perspectives: part 2

The health education and promotion profession is facing a series of teacher preparation challenges related to the delivery of quality school health education/promotion programmes. The challenges occurring in the United States are also present in a variety of other regions as the education structure attempts to ensure that students receive a sound preparation in health education and promotion during their school experience. The challenges can be categorised into the following areas: • Quality and quantity of professional preparation for teachers during their preservice university training; • Need for in-service of teachers already in the K-1 2 workforce (in the USA grades K -12 are broadly equivalent to ages five to 17 years); • University faculty workforce professional development needs; • Research to provide baseline data for future standards development. Because there is a direct connection between community and school and parents and teachers at the K-1 2 level of education, the demand for highly skilled teachers and professional development is playing out at that level much more rapidly than at the university level. The relative isolation of some university faculty and programmes has developed an interesting situation in which many administrators and master teachers at the K-12 level of education have a better grasp and understanding of new teaching and learning strategies and tools than professors at the university level. This has happened at the same time when there is also a shortage of university professors entering school health education/promotion teacher education. This confluence of realities may predicate the need for a radical change in university based teacher preparation in health education/promotion. The overwhelming challenge for many countries including the United States remains the large number of teachers in the current workforce who must be provided professional development experiences. Currently both the National Health Education Standards for K-1 students and teacher preparation standards in health education reflect best practice theory only. There is no national data to support the standards. During the next ten years it is imperative that nationwide data be collected, compiled and analysed on actual learning outcomes for both K-12 students and health education teacher candidates. This will allow the next set of standards at both of the above-mentioned levels to reflect the knowledge and skills that have been actually attained and demonstrated. It will also be a basis for creating revisions and expansions in such a way that national standards can be an actual measure by which student performance can be judged. It is hoped that the rising tide of both national and international interest in having an increasingly health literate population will inspire members of the profession to be creative in the development of educational approaches, strategic partnerships, and funding to put strong systems of teacher preparation in place for the future.

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Michigan Model For Comprehensive School Health Education--Grade Four

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e332942004-001 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Keyword(s):

Health Education ◽

School Health ◽

Comprehensive School ◽

Comprehensive School Health ◽

School Health Education

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Health education for deaf Romanian children: parents’ opinions

Health Education ◽

10.1108/he-02-2019-0008 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 119 (5/6) ◽

pp. 341-349

Author(s):

Laura Ionescu ◽

Lacramioara Ursache ◽

Adelina Nicolae ◽

Adriana Conea ◽

Cristian Potora ◽

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Keyword(s):

Health Education ◽

Communication Technology ◽

School Health ◽

Healthy Lifestyle ◽

Smoking Prevention ◽

Educational Activities ◽

Content Type ◽

North West ◽

School Based ◽

School Health Education

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to focus on parents of children with hearing disabilities from Romania and has three objectives. First, it assesses their characteristics regarding use of communication technology. Second, it investigates their opinions regarding the importance of school-based education for healthy lifestyle promotion among their children. Third, it evaluates the availability for their involvement in educational activities using face-to-face approach and communication technology dedicated to helping parents to promote healthy lifestyle among their children, as well as factors which influence this availability. Design/methodology/approach The study was performed in October–November 2015 in two schools deserving children with hearing disabilities from North-West part of Romania. Anonymous questionnaire were filled in by 182 parents. Findings The majority of parents recognize the importance of school-based health education and more than 77 per cent totally agree that it should include issues regarding healthy nutrition, promotion of physical activity and smoking prevention. In total, 80.2 per cent of the parents declared that they are interested to participate in educational activities organized periodically at school and 66.5 per cent declared their interest in educational activities developed through communication technology in order to help them to stimulate the adoption of healthy lifestyle among their children. The availability was influenced by residence, educational level, understanding the importance of parents’ involvement, characteristics regarding the use of communication technology. Originality/value This represents the first study from Romania investigating the opinions and availability for their involvement with regard to school health education among parents of children with hearing deficiencies. The results have several implications for health education among children with hearing deficiencies and their parents.

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