The first years of children learning healthy behaviors are critical, in order for them to continue healthy habits through out their lifetime. Children usually start school at around the age of four years old for pre-school all the way up too around the age of seventeen years old through high school. Students spend most of their time in school, spending seven to eight hours a day, five days a week, providing enough time for teachers to be able to teach their students about health as well as academic material. What many people don’t know is how teachers are faced with difficulties in order to incorporate health in their lessons. Making it difficult for teachers to have an impact in their student’s health in an educational and meaningful way.
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The common core subjects include, math, language arts, social studies, and the physical science. Educators are more concentrated and pressured more on teaching these subjects because by the end of the academic year state testing occurs. These state states only concentrate on the common core subjects. So they’re some teachers who don’t find it important at all to educate their students about health, because they are not going to be tested on it. Further more National Health Education Standards exist , that educators should be teaching in the classroom. For example in our textbook, “Health Education Elementary and Middle School Applications”, on page 15 it lists several National Health Education Standards. One states, “Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health”. These are simple standards that can be taught easily by educators, teaching them at the beginning of their school year can be they key to the start of healthier habits. Such as students washing their hands prior to eating meals, and after using the restroom. Simple easy routines can make a difference in a child’s health …show more content…
That’s why educators and those who provide lunch for the students should team up in order to give these studnets, adequate time for lunch, snack breaks, and physical activity breaks. In order for schools to be successful in teaching their students about health, they need to put health as an important subject so it can be taught year round. Just like how they have red ribbon week, in order for students to have some type of knowledge of drugs. Overall, school health education has potential to make a significant difference in the health of children and adolescents. If they succeed in teaching health educators have the capacity to decrease childhood disease as well as promote heath through a person’s
The common core subjects include, math, language arts, social studies, and the physical science. Educators are more concentrated and pressured more on teaching these subjects because by the end of the academic year state testing occurs. These state states only concentrate on the common core subjects. So they’re some teachers who don’t find it important at all to educate their students about health, because they are not going to be tested on it. Further more National Health Education Standards exist , that educators should be teaching in the classroom. For example in our textbook, “Health Education Elementary and Middle School Applications”, on page 15 it lists several National Health Education Standards. One states, “Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health”. These are simple standards that can be taught easily by educators, teaching them at the beginning of their school year can be they key to the start of healthier habits. Such as students washing their hands prior to eating meals, and after using the restroom. Simple easy routines can make a difference in a child’s health …show more content…
That’s why educators and those who provide lunch for the students should team up in order to give these studnets, adequate time for lunch, snack breaks, and physical activity breaks. In order for schools to be successful in teaching their students about health, they need to put health as an important subject so it can be taught year round. Just like how they have red ribbon week, in order for students to have some type of knowledge of drugs. Overall, school health education has potential to make a significant difference in the health of children and adolescents. If they succeed in teaching health educators have the capacity to decrease childhood disease as well as promote heath through a person’s