Tools for Teaching Health - by Shannon Whalen & Dominick Splendorio & Sal Chiariello (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Tools for Teaching Health presents classroom-tested, ready to use activities and lessons developed and written by highly acclaimed health educators. This much-needed resource provides any health educator who works with various populations with the strategies that will enhance the health education experience and make learning fun. Designed to be practical, all the book's proven activities are reproducible, hands-on, student-centered, and interactive.

From the Back Cover

The Tools You Need for Teaching Health

Health educators who work with adolescents, seniors, students, and other population groups must explain to their audiences the prevention of risk behaviors, the interrelationship between health knowledge, attitudes and behaviors and health status, and the workings of the human body, all in language that is easily understandable and jargon free.

Tools for Teaching Health presents classroom-tested, ready to use activities and lessons developed and written by highly acclaimed health educators. This much-needed resource provides any health educator who works with various populations with the strategies that will enhance the health education experience and make learning fun. Designed to be practical, all the book's proven activities are reproducible, hands-on, studentcentered, and interactive.

Tools for Teaching Health concentrates on the key areas that are critical to health education:

• Tobacco
• Alcohol
• Drugs
• Nutrition
• Sexuality Education
• Violence Prevention
• Physical Activity

Tools for Teaching Health reflects the National Health Education Standards that support the need to promote health and disease prevention behavior. The chapters show how to promote healthy behaviors, such as stress management, communication skills, assertiveness, refusal skills, goal setting, resource management, media analysis, and advocate for personal, family, and community health.

All the activities highlighted in Tools for Teaching Health are designed to promote cooperative learning, social interaction, creativity, and a mutual atmosphere of trust, respect, and the joy of learning health.

PRAISE FOR TOOLS FOR TEACHING HEALTH

"The finest teaching methodology book that I've seen, written by true professionals. The lessons are easy to follow and have all been 'tried and tested' in the classroom."
--DR. DARREL LANG, Health and Physical Education Program Consultant, Kansas State Department of Education

"A great resource to connect the Learning Standards to the health skills required to be successful in the twenty-first century."
--DR. GARY ENGLISH, former professor at Ithaca College and executive director for the Statewide Center for Healthy Schools in New York

About the Author

THE AUTHORS

SHANNON WHALEN is an associate professor in the Department of Health Education, Springfield College, Springfield, Massachusetts. In 2005 she was named New York State "Higher Education Professional of the Year."

DOMINICK SPLENDORIO has been a health educator and district-wide health education coordinator for more than twenty years. He has twice been named "Health Educator of the Year" in New York State.

SAL CHIARIELLO has been a health educator and developer of health education curriculum for more than 20 years. In 2005 he was named "New York State District Health Coordinator of the Year."