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Q1: What is SHER?The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) School Health Education Resources (SHER) is a user-friendly tool to help teachers find CDC’s school health education resources. Q2: What is the purpose of CDC's SHER?The purpose of SHER is to help school district staff easily locate school health education instructional resources for grades pre-K–12. The resources in SHER are aligned with the National Health Education Standards. SHER supports CDC’s mission to promote healthy behaviors. Q3: Who can use SHER?SHER is designed to be used by preK–12 classroom teachers, health education teachers, and other staff in school districts such as curriculum directors or specialists, school health coordinators, or principals. Additional users of SHER might include
Q4: Why does CDC develop health education resources?CDC is the principal agency in the United States government charged with promoting the health and quality of life of all people by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability, and by ensuring that our nation is prepared for any emergencies or crises that affect the health and well-being of American citizens. As the nation’s prevention agency, CDC accomplishes its mission by working with partners throughout the United States and the world to
Educating the public is a key function in supporting CDC’s mission. School health education teachers, other classroom teachers, and curriculum specialists are essential participants in and contributors to CDC’s mission. Not only can they deliver scientifically-based health instruction and promote healthy lifestyle behaviors to more than 54 million students each school day, they also can inspire and prepare the parents, public health workers, and health educators of the future. Q5: What kinds of school health education resources are available from the CDC?CDC has developed a wide variety of scientific materials, instructional resources, and tools for use by classroom teachers. SHER provides the sole comprehensive, user-friendly place to browse and access these resources, which include
Q6: How is SHER organized?The health education resources are organized by
Q7: What are the National Health Education Standards?The National Health Education Standards guide the expectations for student learning and achievement. A feature of SHER is to assist teachers in linking key health-related skills and knowledge for planning curriculum, lessons, and educational activities. Q8: What are the Characteristics of Effective Health Education Curricula?The Characteristics of Effective Health Education Curricula have been identified by CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health based upon reviews of effective programs and curricula, and input from school health education experts. They are included as a feature of SHER to assist teachers and others in planning effective health education curriculum, lessons, and educational activities. Q9: How does my state or school district's health education standards fit into SHER?The National Health Education Standards form the foundation for most state and local education agencies health education standards. Q10: How can using SHER add to the resources that my district provides for health education?SHER can be used to
Q11: How can my school district or school strengthen school health education?SHER was developed to provide educators with user-friendly and free access to CDC’s instructional resources for health education. CDC’s School Health Index (SHI), a self-assessment tool, can be used to determine the extent to which your school implements the types of policies and practices recommended by the CDC in its research-based guidelines related to health education. The SHI is easy to use and is available online as an interactive tool. Suggested outcomes for a comprehensive school health education curriculum, NHES performance indicators, and other state and national resources are also available on SHER. Q12: Where can we get help in planning a health education curriculum?There are several resources available to assist you with health education and curriculum planning. First, contact the curriculum director for health education or school health coordinator in your school district, or the health education consultant or the coordinated school health program director in your state education agency. Other curriculum experts include
Many school health educators are members of national professional associations that represent health education teachers, including the American Association for Health Education (AAHE)* and the American School Health Association (ASHA).*
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