Assessment and Standards Training

This last week I also attended the health education assessment and standards training. I will be honest, I went into the training not being able to recite the 8 standards in health education, but I can recite them now. This training was awesome!! It explained exactly how to incorporate the health standards into your lessons. A lot of times when I was developing my lessons, I didn't even realize exactly what standards I was covering. I knew that I always covered the first standard of CONTENT, but the other seven I had not clue. Come to find out, I was covering all the health standards by the teaching strategies that I was incorporating. The main focus of this training to me was how important the skills taught in health are over the content knowledge. This really opened my eyes. I assessed the students where I am teaching and I see the skills they need to learn from my class to survive. It is important for kids to have the refusal skill, the application skills, analyzing skills, and self- management skills. Some of my students are having to take care of themselves and this really pointed out to me the real importance of the health standards not just in the content knowledge but also the skills.