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HealthTeacher


HealthTeacher is a US health curriculum for K-12 teachers at the elementary school, middle school and high school levels. HealthTeacher targets teachers in a classroom setting, and in home schooling, community-based health and mental health centers, and other health education venues. The curriculum was created in 1999 and launched January 20, 2000.

The HealthTeacher curriculum is consistent with the Assessment Framework and National Health Education Standards for each grade level. It can stand alone as a school's only health curriculum, or it can support an existing curriculum.

HealthTeacher addresses the top six health risk behaviors identified by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC):

Psychological, developmental and learning theories and models that form the basis of the HealthTeacher curriculum are:

Health teacher's lessons also use role plays, cooperative learning activities, independent work, and classroom demonstrations.

Originators of the idea to place a comprehensive K-12 health education curriculum for teachers based on national standards on the Internet presented the idea to leaders in the health education community. The developers established an Advisory Board to advise the project's development and implementation and hired a publishing firm experienced in developing health education materials to lead in writing the curriculum. Focus groups of teachers reviewed the lesson plans.

The Advisory Board guided the development of the project so it would meet the needs of health educators, students, and administrators.


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