Every new print copy includes access to the Navigate Student Companion
Website which includes PDF Worksheets. The Second Edition of
Skills-Based Health Education provides pre-service and practicing
teachers with the pedagogical foundation and tools to develop a
comprehensive PreK-12 health education program using the National Health
Education Standards. It takes each standard by grade span, provides
scenarios based on research to explain the skill, and then provides a
step-by-step approach to planning assessment and instruction. Early
chapters connect skills-based health education to coordinated school
health and the national initiatives of the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, Healthy People 2020, The Whole Child, and 21st Century
Skills. The remaining chapters provide guidance to plan, implement, and
assess performance tasks. Readers are shown how to establish student
needs, select content and skill performance indicators to meet those
needs, and plan and implement assessment and instructions. Key Features
of the Second Edition: - Provides an in depth study of the National
Health Education Standards and outlines how to use them to implement
skills-based health education - Discusses how to align standards to
curriculum, instruction, and assessment - Outlines how to successfully
teach health education content through the National Health Education
Standards - Addresses the use of formative and summative assessment
tools to improve teaching and learning - Incorporates anecdotes from
teachers who are currently teaching content through skills
