If you ask me, health is the most important class a student will ever take. I don’t hesitate to tell this to my students, their families and anyone else who will listen. My goal is always for my students to learn about themselves and gain the skills to live a happy, healthy and safe life …
I have been quoted as saying "If you care about kids, and you care about their lifelong health, then it would be wrong of you not to consider skills-based health." and I truly believe that. Transitioning away from teaching purely content, and moving towards weaving that content into lessons teaching health skills has been the …
Let's get one thing straight right now. This might come as a shock to some, but skills-based health is not a new thing. The National Health Education Standards aren't new either, they've been around since as long as I've been teaching. They're older than some of the latest additions to my PLN! Having said that, …
I want you to close your eyes for a minute and think back to your high school or junior high health education experience. What do you remember?...if anything? More importantly, what “Letter Grade” would you give yourself today, right now, if we did an accurate assessment of your health and well-being? Anyone not get …
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One of the highlights of #SHAPEBoston was being greeted daily by the smiling face of this week's guest blogger, MAHPERD President Claudia Brown. She is an educator whom I admire immensely and I'm delighted that she is our guest blogger this week. Evolution. When I began teaching, it was the time of, “don’t let them …
Social media has connected us in a way that we could never had imagined when we first signed up. In addition to creating a global PLN of teachers with whom I have had the opportunity to collaborate it has also allowed me access to great authors too. My first 21st Century book discussion was based …
As a British transplant in America, with teaching experience on both sides of the pond I'm often asked how is teaching different between England and America. Inevitably after naming a few subtle differences I'll come back to the same point - children are children wherever you are. They all deserve the best from caring, responsible …
Self-efficacy has been on my mind this week, and not just because I was reading about it in the awesome The Essentials of Teaching Health Education from Sarah Benes and Holly Alperin. I saw that my home country of England has been excited about the visit of President Obama and among the news headlines was this one …
One of the many highlights from my attendance at #SHAPEMinneapolis was attending a session from Dr. Sarah Benes and Dr. Holly Alperin in which they talked about the concepts and principles covered in their new text The Essentials of Teaching Health Education. The book "presents a skills-based approach to teaching K-12 health education—one that will prepare …
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