Health Education

The goal of Health Education is to help students adopt and maintain healthy behaviors. Health Education contributes directly to a student's ability to successfully practice behaviors that protect and promote health while avoiding or reducing health risks.

Educator roles in contributing to the Health Education goal include:

Teaching functional health information (essential concepts)

Helping students determine personal values that support healthy behaviors

Helping students develop group norms that value a healthy lifestyle

Helping students develop the essential skills necessary to adopt, practice, and maintain health-enhancing behaviors

                                                                            (Idaho State Department of Education)