The Essentials of Teaching Health Education: Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment (SHAPE America set the Standard)

The Essentials of Teaching Health Education presents a skills-based approach to K-12 health education. This text provides all you need in order to build, teach, and assess a health education program that will help your students develop the 21st-century skills that they need for success in college and in their careers beyond. In turn, these skills will enable students to maintain or improve health outcomes.

What sets this text apart is its flexibility in meeting the unique needs of schools, teachers, and students. It emphasizes an individualized approach to enhancing student learning and development of skills based on current research and national health education standards.

The Essentials of Teaching Health Education offers these features:

• Practical strategies for curriculum development with a skills-based approach—one that makes it easy to put the contents into action and make a meaningful impact on your students
• Real-world examples to aid in understanding and applying the content, along with summaries, key points, and review questions that help students retain the content
• Vocabulary words and definitions to help students keep up with the ever-changing health education terminology
• An array of ancillaries for course instructors—test bank, presentation package, web resource, and instructor guide—that offer tools to help you deliver a well-rounded curriculum that will prepare future teachers for success and provide current teachers with a resource to instill health lessons that will benefit students throughout their lives

The web resource is also available separately for students and instructors.