The Essentials of teaching health education

Benes, Sarah 1982-

The Essentials of teaching health education curriculum, instruction, and assessment Sarah Benes, Holly Alperin - 2nd ed. - Champaign, IL Human Kinetics 2022 - 346 p. col. ill.

"This textbook provides a new perspective on health education that shifts the emphasis from primarily knowledge acquisition (learning a lot of new information) to skill acquisition (learning how to do something that will affect your health in a positive way). We call the approach presented in this text a skills-based approach to health education. We do this by addressing the critical aspects of a skills-based approach, including how to teach and develop health-related skills (with a focus on the National Health Education Standards), how to emphasize skill development in the curriculum, and how to implement the approach in the classroom"--

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