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Health Teacher Professional Development Opportunities
Check out current conferences and other events by clicking on the following link:
http://www.bvsd.org/curriculum/healthed/Pages/CurrentEventsandAnnouncements.aspx
National Board Certification Now Available in Health Education!
Spring, 2008: The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) has announced that the Health Education certificate is the latest addition to the National Board Certification process that describes and certifies what accomplished teachers should know and be able to do. The goal of the new certificate is to provide accomplished teachers with a way to document that they know and use the best methods to develop in students the critical skills they need to become "health literate." Like board-certified doctors and accountants, teachers who achieve National Board Certification have met rigorous standards through intensive study, expert evaluation, self-assessment and peer review.
National Board Certification is a voluntary assessment program designed to recognize and reward accomplished teachers. While state licensing systems set basic requirements in each state, NBCT's have successfully demonstrated advanced teaching knowledge, skills and practices. Certification is achieved through a rigorous, performance-based assessment that typically takes one to three years to complete.
For Health teachers to be eligible to obtain National Board Certification, they must:
1. hold a baccalaureate degree
2. have three years teaching experience in early childhood, elementary, middle or high schools prior to submitting an application, and
3. hold a valid state teaching license, where required, for those three years.
For more information, go to the NBPTS website at: www.nbpts.org or call 1-800-22-TEACH
Online Graduate Credit Health Education Courses
The American Association for Health Education and the Foundation for the Advancement of Health Education, in conjunction with universities across the U.S., are offering graduate level courses entirely through distance education technologies. These courses have been developed by graduate faculty from various universities and can be taken as stand alone courses or transferred into a graduate program, if applicable. All students who enroll in these online courses will be assigned an instructor/mentor to help them work through the class lectures, materials, and assignments. At the completion of the course, students will receive a letter grade from the instructor/mentor, and a transcript from the host university.
For more information and a list of courses, go to: http://www.hepnetwork.org/hepnet.asp
Professional Health Education Associations
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The American Association for Health Education provides support and resources for America's K-12 Health Education teachers. To find out more information or to become a member, go to the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance at www.aahperd.org or email AAHE at: aahe@aahperd.org. Phone: 703-476-3437.
Professional Presentation/Conference Opportunities
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Call for Presentation Proposals
AAHPERD 2009 National Convention and Exposition
Deadline for submission: June 16, 2008
From AAHPERD:
We invite you to submit a presentation proposal for the 2009 American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance National Convention and Exposition in partnership with Southern District AAHPERD and Florida AHPERDS to be held in Tampa, Florida March 31 through April 4, 2009. Convention programming is based primarily on this annual Call for Presentations, bringing practical and relevant information to health, physical education, recreation and dance professionals and students. By featuring you and your peers as presenters, AAHPERD provides convention attendees with the strongest forum for information exchange, problem solving, and networking on a national level. For more information, go to the AAHPERD website at: www.aahperd.org. |
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Health Teacher Community Resources 
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Resources for Teaching the Skills-Based Standards
The BVSD K-12 Health Education curriculum is based on the National Health Education Standards (click on "Curriculum Overview" in left menu for more information on the standards). These standards focus on teaching personal and social skills by having students actively participate in learning and teaching about health rather than having teachers merely provide information that is memorized and easily forgotten. While Standard #1 is about teaching functional knowledge and core concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention, this knowledge is more effectively learned when it is incorporated with the practice of the skills taught in Standards #2-7. The following provides some specific information and ideas for Health teachers to consider in teaching the skills-based standards.
Introduction to Teaching Skills-Based Standards
Standard #1: Comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention.
Standard #2: Access valid health information and health-promoting products and services.
Standard #3: Practice health-enhancing behaviors and reduce helath risks.
Standard #4: Analyze the influences of culture, family, peers, media, technology, and other factors on health.
Standard #5: Use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health.
Standard #6: Use decision-making and goal-setting skills to enhance health.
Standard #7: Advocate for personal, family and community health.
More Resources for Teaching Health Information
Health information in all categories and for all ages:
Wellness:
1. Nutrition Education
All Levels:
- The Nutrition Literacy Toolkit is helpful for teachers who want to make their nutrition curriculum
dynamic and relevant. The resources and web sites provide quick and easy links to easily accessible materials. Teachers can customize the selection of nutrition education resources to best use the
limited amount of classroom and school time for nutrition education, choose resources to match their
teaching style and the health needs of their students.
The interactive Nutrition Literacy Toolkit, an on-line planning tool can be found at
http://www.cde.state.co.us/nltk/default.asp
Elementary:
K-8:
Middle School and High School:
Spanish Resources:
2. Disease Prevention
Asthma
New Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) asthma video and toolkit: To support schools and communities in creating asthma-friendly schools, DASH has released Initiating Change: Creating an Asthma-Friendly School, a toolkit developed to help advocates at the district and school levels persuade people in their schools and communities of the importance of asthma-friendly schools. The cornerstone of the toolkit is a 13-minute, inspirational video on Creating an Asthma-Friendly School, which features real-life success stories of students in Charlotte, North Carolina and Detroit, Michigan who, thanks to their schools' asthma-friendly policies and programs, now have their asthma under control. The toolkit also includes materials to help people plan and facilitate a showing of the video in their community or school, as well as science-based suggestions and tools for making their schools more asthma-friendly.
The toolkit and a link to a podcast of the video are now available on the CDC/DASH website at www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/asthma/creatingafs. A link to an on-demand webinar on Marketing Asthma-Friendly Schools is also available at this site. The webinar provides information on how asthma advocates can use the video and toolkit to encourage people to make their schools more asthma-friendly.
You can order the video (in DVD format), a CD-ROM of all toolkit materials, or a hard copy of the toolkit (which includes the DVD and CD-ROM) by e-mailing cdcinfo@cdc.gov or calling 800-CDC-INFO (800-232-4636).
Avian flu (all levels):
HIV/AIDS:
HPV:
Mental Health and Emotional Wellness
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The HOPE Coalition of Boulder County was formed in 2005, so that we, as committed citizens, could work together, reach out, and understand the stressors in today’s society that have triggered an epidemic of depression. We want to instill in all the people of our community that they can ask for help without fear of shame and we want to give them the necessary resources to do it. We believe that with proper attention and intervention, lives can be saved. And it takes a community. Go to: http://www.hopecoalitionboulder.org
- http://www.nasponline.org (National Association of School Psychologists)
- http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat (National Institute of Mental Health publications on a variety of
mental health issues – some also available in Spanish)
- The Boulder Valley Safe Schools Coalition: BVSSC is an advisory committee to the Superintendent, a coalition of community organizations and individuals working to promote a safe, put-down-free environment in Boulder Valley Schools, with particular concern for youth experiencing harassment for perceived or actual differences in gender identity/expression or sexual orientation. Go to: http://www.bouldersafeschools.org
Violence Awareness
- Cyber-bullying and other bullying: http://www.mindohfoundation.org/index.htm (focus is on ethical behavior)
- The Boulder Valley Safe Schools Coalition: BVSSC is an advisory committee to the Superintendent, a coalition of community organizations and individuals working to promote a safe, put-down-free environment in Boulder Valley Schools, with particular concern for youth experiencing harassment for perceived or actual differences in gender identity/expression or sexual orientation. Go to: http://www.bouldersafeschools.org
Substance Use, Abuse and Addiction:
1. Tobacco
All age levels and resources available in English and Spanish:
Human Growth and Development and Human Sexuality:
Elementary:
Secondary:
1. Abstinence vs. Comprehensive Sexual Health Education
2. Adolescent Males Sexuality
- Report: It's a Guy Thing: Boys, Young Men, and Teen Pregnancy Prevention
This report offers several key insights regarding adolescent males' contributions to
recent declines in adolescent pregnancy and birth rates as well as pertinent implications for those working
with adolescent males.
Chapter 1 - Provides an extensive review of research on the attitudes and behavior
of adolescent males regarding sex, contraception, pregnancy, and related issues; Chapter 2 - Reviews
evaluation research on the effectiveness of school-based, coeducational programs in reducing risky sexual
behavior among adolescent males; and Chapter 3 - Offers a qualitative look at the challenges associated
with engaging adolescent males in adolescent pregnancy prevention and some strategies for overcoming
these challenges.
The report is available at: http://www.teenpregnancy.org/resources/reading/males.asp
Diversity Awareness:
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Gender Identity/Expression and/or Sexual Orientation:
- The Boulder Valley Safe Schools Coalition: BVSSC is an advisory committee to the Superintendent, a coalition of community organizations and individuals working to promote a safe, put-down-free environment in Boulder Valley Schools, with particular concern for youth experiencing harassment for perceived or actual differences in gender identity/expression or sexual orientation. Go to: http://www.bouldersafeschools.org
Injury Prevention and Safety
Elementary
1. Poison Prevention
Secondary
1. High School Sports:
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Teaching-related Policies and Documents
Please see Health Education-related Policies on the Policies page for more information. For information about exclusions from Health Education, please see "Administrator Resrouces" in the left menu bar. The
following policies and documents are listed to provide Health teachers with additional resources and support for
teaching Health Education.
Policies
Amount of Time Health is Taught in the Overall Curriculum
Use of Learning Materials in Instruction
Controversial Issues
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