What Is HealthTeacher'com

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What Is HealthTeacher.com?

• 278 original and complete lesson plans for
  teachers that include
• Student handouts.
• Transparencies.
• Background content information to supplement a
  teachers knowledge.
• Updated health information.

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What Is HealthTeacher.com?

• HEALTHteacher.com is an
• Internet-based health education
• curriculum that is
• Comprehensive.
• Developmentally Appropriate
• Based on National Health Education Standards.
• Built on the same Curriculum Assessment
  Framework as Delaware.
• Original Material.

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Comprehensive and Sequential

• Core Topic Areas for Each Grade Level
• Alcohol Other Drugs
• Community Environmental Health
• Injury Prevention
• Mental Emotional Health
• Nutrition
• Personal Consumer Health
• Physical Activity
• Family Health Sexuality
• Tobacco

• Grade Level
• Groupings
• K-1
• Grades 2-3
• Grades 4-5
• Mid School
• High School

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The Seven Health Education Standards

• 5. Use interpersonal communication skills to
  enhance health
• 6. Develop plans through individual goal setting
  and decision making
• 7. Become advocates for good individual, family,
  and community health

• 1. Understand health promotion and disease
  prevention concepts
• 2. Know how to access valid health information,
  products, and services
• 3. Develop positive health behaviors
• 4. Analyze the influence of culture, media, and
  Technology on health

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DOE health education assessment items match the
lessons
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DE Health Education Curriculum Assessment
Framework Alignment What this Means to You

• HealthTeachers lessons match the descriptors,
  aligned to Delaware state standards.
• HealthTeacher was built on the same Assessment
  Framework as Delaware so the CCSSO / SCASS Health
  Education Assessment Project item bank will match
  the lessons.

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• Health content and skills introduced in the early
  grades and reinforced in later grades
• Student assessments that measure skill
  acquisition as well as functional knowledge

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How Can HealthTeacher.com Be Used?

• To build a comprehensive state of the art health
  education curriculum for school systems.
• To supplement an existing curriculum.
• To align a curriculum with the State Standards.
• To provide a skill-based instructional program
• To enrich a classroom teachers portfolio of
  ideas and instructional strategies.

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Six Critical Life Skills are Addressed

• Know how to access valid health information,
  products, and services.
• Develop positive health behaviors.
• Analyze the influence of culture, media, and
  technology on health.

• 4. Use interpersonal communication skills to
  enhance health.
• 5. Develop plans through individual goal
  setting and decision-making.
• 6. Become advocates for good individual,
  family, and community health.

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What Does HEALTHteacher Provide?
HEALTHteacher.com
Links to Assessment
Teacher Support
Lesson Guides
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How to Register

• How do I log on? http//www.healthteacher.com
• Use DE Contract Code DEL-01-2002
• Each school will create a password
• This document contains the step by step, screen
  by screen process to complete the required
  registration process for the curriculum and the
  forgotten password process.
• email us with comments, questions and recommended
  enhancements to the program Anita
  Davis(a-davis_at_comcast.net).
• Technical difficulties, call (615)-822-1362

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Logging In

• Begin on the home page, http//www.healthteacher.c
  om.
• In the upper left corner of the home page you
  will see 2 boxes in which to enter information
• E-mail   enter the e-mail that you used to
  register
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• Password  enter the password that you used to
  register
• Forgot Password? If you forgot your password,
  there is a place to click to get an e-mail
  response
• Contact Webmaster If you have any technical
  problem logging in, there is a place to click to
  get help from the webmaster.

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Lesson Guides

• There are 278 original lesson guides in the
  HealthTeacher.com curriculum.
• Each lesson guide is original, developed by
  ToucanEd Publications, to meet the NHES and
  coordinate with the CCSSO/SCASS Health Education
  Assessment Projects item base.
• All lesson guides were last reviewed Summer -
  Fall, 2003.

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Lesson Guides

• Topics
• Nutrition
• Physical Activity
• Alcohol and Other Drugs
• Tobacco
• Family Health and Sexuality
• Intentional and Unintentional Injuries
• Mental and Emotional Health
• Personal and Consumer Health
• Community and Environmental Health

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Online Lesson Plans
Grade Level Grades k-1 Content Area Nutrition
1 of 5
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Lesson Guides

• You can access the lessons either by topic or by
  Grade Level.
• To access by topic
• Click on Scope and Sequence in the left nav
  column and then scroll down to the desired lesson
  topic and click on a lesson guide.
• OR
• Click on the View by Content in the left nav
  column, then select a lesson.
• To access by grade level
• Click on the View by Grade in the left nav column.

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Lesson Guides

• You must be logged in to access the lesson plans
  and
• You must be subscribed to the grade level
  grouping you are trying to access. Your access is
  dependent on your subscription
• An Elementary Subscription gives access to grades
  K-5,
• Middle School Subscription gives access to grades
  6-8, and
• High School Subscription gives access to grades
  9-12.

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Lesson Guides

• Each lesson guide follows the same format.
• There are three pages to each lesson guide
• Introduction. This page provides a synopsis,
  objectives, a skill link, teacher background
  support information, and what you need to do to
  prepare to teach the lesson.
• Teaching Steps. This page provides step by step
  instruction to assure that you teach for both
  concept and skill.
• Assessment. This page provides a suggested means
  to assess student learning for both skill and
  content.

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Updated Information for Teachers

• Where do I find the latest information? The
  section, Health Alerts and Findings, at the top,
  center of the home page will have current health
  information. The background content and
  information is constantly being updated to have
  access to current research.

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Teacher Support

• Content Background  - provides information about
  the content area as related to the lesson guides.
• Health Literacy / NHES Skills  - provides
  information about each skill
• ReferencesWeb Links - provides links to
  additional reviewed websites
• ResourcesNewsletter - quarterly newsletter
  reviewing a content area
• Print Version of Lesson Guides lesson plans
  are now available in print, with original artwork
  and PDF versions of all student handouts and
  transparency masters.

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• Teacher Support Background Content

• There are 9 core content sections on
  HealthTeacher.com.
• Click on any topic area for the background
  information.
• All content sections are being updated and
  re-formatted to match each descriptor in the
  National Standards.
• Powerpoints and interactives for students are
  also under development.

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Teacher Support Background Content

• All existing content has been medically reviewed
  for accuracy.

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What is the primary purpose of HEALTHteacher.com?
Teacher Support Health Literacy

• To help build health literacy among those who
  teach health education.
• Health literacy is the capacity of
  individuals to obtain, interpret, and understand
  basic health information and services and the
  competence to use such information and services
  in ways which enhance health. Both concepts
  (knowledge) and skills are essential components
  of health literacy.
• For an introduction to Health Literacy, see
  http//www.healthteacher.com/teachersupports/liter
  acy.asp

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Teacher Support Delaware Core Concepts
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Teacher Support DE Skill, Accessing Information
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Teacher Support DE Skill, Self Management
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Teacher Support DE Skill, Analyzing Influences
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Teacher Support DE Skill, Interpersonal
Communication
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Teacher Support DE Skill, Decision-Making /
Goal Setting
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Teacher Support DE Skill, Advocacy
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Teacher Support References Resources

• This section of the website provides
• Web-links (http//www.healthteacher.com/teachersup
  ports/weblinks/default.asp) for each of the nine
  topic areas.
• Newsletters (http//www.healthteacher.com/registra
  tion2/registration_newsletter.asp)
• Links to national health and educational
  organization (to be developed 1/04)

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HealthTeacher in Print

• One binder for each of the 5 grade levels.
• Binders range up to 750 pages each.
• Binders include lesson guides, student handout
  and transparency masters with new original
  artwork.
• Binders also include a CD Rom with handouts for
  easier printing.
• More information at http//www.healthteacher.com/p
  rintProduct/htflyer.pdf
• Sample print version lessons are on line at
  http//staging.healthteacher.com/printproduct/2-3i
  nj5.pdf
• Pricing is available at http//staging.healthteach
  er.com/printproduct/htpricing.pdf

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HealthTeacher and the Coordinated School Health
Education Model
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Comprehensive Model Health Education
Component
I. Comprehensive School Health Education
Program A planned , sequential, K-12
curriculum that addresses the physical, mental,
emotional and social dimensions of health.
(CDC) HealthTeacher.com Curriculum A
planned, sequential, K-12 curriculum that
addresses the physical, mental, emotional and
social dimensions of health.
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Comprehensive Model Health Education
Component

• II. Comprehensive School Health Education
  Program The curriculum is designed to motivate
  and assist students to maintain and improve their
  health, prevent disease, and reduce
  health-related risk behaviors. (CDC)
• HealthTeacher.com Curriculum Objective 1
• To build health literacy among those who teach
  health education.
• a. Help teachers understand skills-based
  teaching and assessment
• through on line lesson examples.
• Through on line articles and information about
  health literacy

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Comprehensive Model Health Education
Component

• Comprehensive School Health Education Program
  It allows students to develop and demonstrate
  increasingly sophisticated health-related
  knowledge, attitudes, skills, and practices.
• HealthTeacher.com Curriculum Objective 2.
• To address the significant health and behavioral
  issues facing today's youth, Healthteacher
  addresses
• a. Knowledge, attitude, and skills development
  and
• b. Provides opportunities for students to
  practice skills that promote lifelong health.

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Comprehensive Model Health Education
Component
HealthTeacher.com Curriculum Objective 3 To
help teachers overcome constraints that limit
school health education a. Time constraints
classroom ready guides and handouts b. Training
constraints basic content background provided
c. Cost constraints Internet medium is
cheaper 100 for all personnel in a school
(dieticians, counselors, librarians)
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Comprehensive Model Health Education
Component

• Comprehensive School Health Education Program
  The comprehensive school health education
  curriculum includes topics such as personal
  health, family health, community health, consumer
  health, environmental health, sexuality
  education, mental and emotional health, injury
  prevention and safety, nutrition, prevention and
  control of disease, and substance use and abuse.
  Qualified, trained teachers provide health
  education.
• HealthTeachers content areas cover all of the
  above topics
• All topics addressed for all grade levels
• All topics addressed for background content
  support

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• Eight characteristics of effective curricula
• Research based and theory driven
• Include basic, accurate information that is
  developmentally appropriate
• Use interactive, experiential activities that
  actively engage students
• Provide students an opportunity to model and
  practice relevant social skills
• Address social or media influences on behaviors
• Strengthen individual values and group norms that
  support health-enhancing behaviors
• Are of sufficient duration to allow students to
  gain the needed knowledge and skills
• Include teacher training that enhances
  effectiveness
• Source Health Is Academic, Eva Marx and Susan
  Wooley

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The Goal of HealthTeacher

• To help students develop both a knowledge base
  and a skills base to help them pursue a healthy
  lifestyle - throughout their life span.

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How You Can Really Help Us

• Report any broken links. There are thousands of
  pages on the website and tens of thousands of
  web-links, so at any given time there will be
  broken links. The sooner we know about them, the
  sooner we can get them fixed.
• Provide feedback on how the site has been so
  helpful, or not so helpful to you or your
  students. Let us know what you need. Click on
  Contact Us from the bottom of any page, or call
  615-822-1362.
• If you need something that you dont find on our
  site for your district, let us know and well
  work with you to get it developed.

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Ready, Set, Go!

• Click here to go to the homepage to begin using
  HealthTeacher.com