Hi Julie,
We use a fabulous website called HealthTeacher.com.  You have to buy a
subscription (but you can buy it for the whole school for around $150
per year).  

In our program we serve adults, some who are severely cognitively
challenged.  The K-1 lessons can be easily adapted for them, while the
High School lessons are great for higher functioning students.  They may
have to be adapted to meet the population, but the lesson plans are
quite solid and add a lot to any health literacy program.

Attached are a couple of Snag-Its, and here is some information on it:
HealthTeacher is a health curriculum for K-12 teachers. Classroom
teachers at the elementary school level, as well as middle school and
high school teachers who teach health will find the lessons useful,
regardless of whether they have professional preparation as a health
educator. HealthTeacher targets teachers in the classroom setting, but
people involved in home schooling, community based health and mental
health centers, and other health education venues have also found it
helpful. The HealthTeacher curriculum delineates knowledge and skill
expectations that are consistent with the Assessment Framework and
National Health Education Standards for each grade level.

It can stand alone as a school's only health curriculum, or it can
support an existing curriculum as an adjunct. HealthTeacher addresses
the top six health risk behaviors identified by the U.S. Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): alcohol and other drug use,
tobacco use, physical inactivity, inadequate nutrition, actions that
result in intentional or unintentional injury, and sexual activity that
can cause unwanted pregnancies or infection with HIV or other STDs.
Theoretical underpinnings for developing HealthTeacher's curriculum. 
A number of psychological, developmental, and learning theories and
models informed the development of HealthTeacher, especially those that
follow Piaget's stages of cognitive development Kohlberg's stages of
moral development, Erikson's stages of the life cycle, Bandura's
self-efficacy theory and cognitive learning theory Wallston's locus of
control Rotter's social learning theory Green's PRECEDE - PROCEED Model
Hochbaum's Health Belief Model (based on Lewin's aspiration theory)
Dennison's Activated Health Education Model HealthTeacher's lessons also
make use of a variety of instructional approaches including role plays,
cooperative learning activities, independent work, and classroom
demonstrations.

Objectives for the HealthTeacher Curriculum: 

   1. To build health literacy among those who teach health education. 

a. The curriculum can help teachers understand skills-based teaching and
assessment and how to apply both in the classroom setting through
on-line examples and tutorials.



   2. To address the significant health and behavioral issues facing
today's youth. 

a. The curriculum addresses knowledge, attitude, and skills development
and provides opportunities for students to practice skills that promote
lifelong health.



   3. To help teachers overcome many of the constraints that now limit
the provision of comprehensive and sequential health education in the
school setting. 

a. Prepared lesson guides can reduce preparation-time constraints for
teachers
b. Basic background that HEALTHteacher.com provides can overcome
training constraints or educational deficits and build on a teacher's
current knowledge of a subject.
c. The lower cost of Internet-based compared to print-based curriculum
can lessen cost constraints and help teachers maintain an up-to-date
resource for classroom education.

I think a link to their information would be an asset to the toolkit. 

Mary Jo Schneider
Adults with Disabilities Program Assistant
Oakland Adult and Career Education
920 53rd Street, Oakland, CA  94608
Tel: (510) 879-4090  Fax: (510) 879-1806
 
Expect Success: Every Classroom. Every Student. Every Day.

-----Original Message-----
From: healthliteracy-bounces at nifl.gov
[mailto:healthliteracy-bounces at nifl.gov] On Behalf Of Julie McKinney
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 12:46 PM
To: healthliteracy at nifl.gov
Subject: [HealthLiteracy 2396] Wednesday Question: What do you want in
yourtoolkit?

Hi Everyone,

I am working on a new Health Literacy Toolkit and am looking for ideas
on what resources you all would like to see in it. It will be online,
and include practical resources for these kinds of activities:
    * addressing health literacy in adult literacy programs and classes
    * forming collaborations between health systems and adult literacy
programs
    * jumpstarting a health literacy initiative 

It will be mostly for adult literacy professional development, but the
resources will also be useful to health care/health education agencies.

Examples of what it will include are:
    * curricula
    * stories of promising practices in ABE/Health Care collaboration
    * research articles
    * funding ideas

Please send me your ideas so I can make sure this will fill some real
needs!

Thanks all,
Julie

Julie McKinney
Health Literacy List Moderator
World Education
jmckinney at worlded.org
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