Health Education
Contact Information
The best way to reach me is through my email abby.barajas@aps.edu
You can also reach me by my extension # 23740, or by writing a note and sending it with your student.
"Prevention is better than cure"
-Desiderius Erasmus
News
Click link below to visit Tres Volcanes CCS's home page. This is where you can find the APS behavior handbook, dress code for our school, school supply lists, and course catalogue.
Welcome to Health Education
Health Education teaches about physical, mental, emotional, and social health. It motivates students to improve and maintain their fitness, prevent disease, take care of their mental health, and reduces risky behaviors in teens and adolescents. Morals and values are fundamentally important and are best taught at home. Skill based health education does not seek to alter or influence a student's moral compass. The goal of health class is to equip students with the skills needed to make decisions and set goals that are in alignment with their personal values. This will help students determine if their decisions will move them closer to or farther away from those goals.
Health Education promotes learning in other subjects too! One study showed that reading and math scores of students who received comprehensive Health Education were significantly higher than those who did not. In general, healthy students learn better, have better attendance, higher grades, and perform better on tests!
Yay for Health Ed!