ʻOihana Hoʻonaʻauao o ka Mokuʻāina ʻo Hawaiʻi

Ka ʻOihana Hoʻonaʻauao o ke Aupuni Hawaiʻi

Nutrition, Health & Wellness

Health education supports students’ health, resilience, total well-being and academic success so they may reach their aspirations, from early learning through college, career and citizenship. 

Providing students with a high-quality, comprehensive health education equips and empowers them with the skills, knowledge and attitudes to address their current and future health needs and challenges. Health literacy is essential to students’ social, emotional, mental, physical, and cognitive development.

Health literate individuals are able to find, understand and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others. This contributes to resilience, well-being, healthy relationships and a positive quality of life as well as prevents and reduces the risk of disease, injury and death.

ʻO ka hoʻonaʻauao olakino o kēia lā e hōʻike ana i ka ulu ʻana o ke kino o ka noiʻi e hōʻike ana:

  • Kākoʻo ʻana i ke olakino, kūpaʻa a me ka maikaʻi holoʻokoʻa o ke keiki holoʻokoʻa (e laʻa, ka ulu ʻana o ka pilikanaka, ka manaʻo, ka noʻonoʻo, ke kino a me ka noʻonoʻo).
  • Ka hoʻomohala ʻana i nā mākau noʻonoʻo olakino e pili ana i nā National Health Education Standards.
  • Ke kūkulu ʻana i ka ʻike hana me ka ʻike pili a me ka hana e pili ana i nā kumuhana pilikia.
  • Hoʻoikaika i ka pilina me ka ʻohana a me ke kaiāulu.
  • Ka hoʻoponopono ʻana i nā pono a me nā makemake o nā haumāna ma o nā ʻike hoʻonaʻauao pili a pilikanaka.
  • ʻO ka mālama ʻana i nā ʻano, nā waiwai a me nā manaʻoʻiʻo e kākoʻo ana i nā ʻano olakino maikaʻi ma o nā leka palekana, komo a mālama a me nā wahi aʻo.

ʻO ka National Health Education Standards: Achieving Excellence (NHES) are fused on developing students’ health literacy skills to proficiency within and across grade levels:

  • Kūlana 1: Hoʻomaopopo i nā Manaʻo – Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health. 
  • Kūlana 2: Ka Hoʻopili ʻana i nā Manaʻo – Students will analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology and other factors on health behavior.
  • Kūlana 3: Loaʻa i ka ʻike, nā huahana a me nā lawelawe – Students will demonstrate the ability to access valid information, products and services.
  • Kūlana 4: Kūkākūkā Interpersonal – Students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.
  • Kūlana 5: Hoʻoholo – Students will demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health.
  • Kūlana 6: Hoʻonohonoho Pahuhopu – Students will demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance health.
  • Kūlana 7: Hoʻoponopono pono'ī – Students will demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks.
  • Kūlana 8: Kūkākūkā – Students will demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family and community health.

While the primary focus of Health Education is the development of health skills, these skills must be addressed in conjunction with functional information in the context of priority risk topics. Standards-based health education must be age and developmentally appropriate, medically accurate and provide factual information in all priority risk topics:

  • Mental and Emotional Health.
  • Healthy Eating and Physical Activity.
  • Personal Health and Wellness.
  • Safety (Unintentional Injury Prevention).
  • Violence Prevention.
  • Tobacco Use Prevention.
  • Alcohol and Other Drug Use Prevention.
  • Sexual Health and Responsibility.

Note: Health Education in prekindergarten is aligned to the Hawai‘i Early Learning and Development Standards (HELDS).

Course Requirements for Health Education

Pono ka hoʻonaʻauao olakino ma nā papa haʻahaʻa a pau.

Middle/intermediate schools must offer courses that allow all students to meet Hawaiʻi՚s Health Education standards and performance indicators for Grades 6-8. One semester (0.5 credits; 60 hours) of Health Education in each middle/intermediate school grade is strongly recommended but not required.

In high school, a one-semester course (0.5 credits; 60 hours) in Health Education is required for graduation. 

A variety of Health specialized elective courses (e.g., Peer Education) are available at the secondary school level.

No ka hoʻokiʻekiʻe kula waena a me nā koi puka kula kiʻekiʻe, e nānā i Board Policy 105-1 Academic Program, Board Policy 102-9 Middle Level Education Promotion Policy, a Board Policy 102-15 High School Graduation Requirements and Commencement.

Wellness Guidelines for Health Education and Nutrition Promotion

Health education and nutrition promotion provide the instructional foundation that is necessary to prepare students to make lifelong healthy decisions and practice healthy behaviors. This component area of the Wellness Guidelines includes school-wide promotion of nutritious meals and snacks as well as quality health education. Click for more information about our Nā Kūlana Ola.

Guidelines for health education and nutrition promotion are organized around four key components:

  1. ʻO nā maʻiʻo aʻo o nā papa hoʻonaʻauao olakino e pili ana i ka nānā ʻana i ka ʻike a me nā mākau e kākoʻo ana i ka ʻai olakino a ua kūlike me nā kūlana HIDOE no ka hoʻonaʻauao olakino.
  2. Hāʻawi ʻia ka hoʻonaʻauao olakino i nā haumāna ma nā papa haʻahaʻa ma kahi o 45 mau minuke i kēlā me kēia pule a me nā papa kiʻekiʻe ma kahi o 200 mau minuke i kēlā me kēia pule.
  3. Nutrition education includes culturally relevant activities that are ‘āina-based and hands-on, such as food preparation, taste-testing, farm visits and school gardens.
  4. Pono nā hale kūʻai a pau o ke kula i nā meaʻai a me nā mea inu Nā Kūlana Meaʻai. Loaʻa kēia, akā ʻaʻole i kaupalena ʻia, nā puke kula, ka waho o nā mīkini kūʻai aku, nā pepa, nā hae, nā kīwī i loko o ke kula a me nā papa helu.

Nā ala e hāpai ai nā kula i ka meaʻai maikaʻi

  • Hōʻike ʻia nā memo maikaʻi e pili ana i nā meaʻai meaʻai ma ka pā kula.
  • Hoʻopiha ʻia nā mīkini kūʻai no nā haumāna i ka wai wale nō.
  • Hana ʻia nā meaʻai kula mai ka wā ʻuʻuku e like me ka hiki, me nā meaʻai palaoa piha i kālua ʻia.
  • ʻAʻohe meaʻai i loko o nā momona trans.
  • Loaʻa ka wai inu i nā haumāna i ka wā ʻai.
  • Kāhea ʻia nā papa e kipa aku i ka lumi kuke hale ʻaina e aʻo ai i ka hoʻomākaukau ʻana i nā meaʻai olakino.
  • Hoʻolaha ʻia ka ʻaina kakahiaka maikaʻi, ka ʻaina awakea a me nā meaʻai i nā haumāna a me ko lākou ʻohana.
  • Hōʻike nā māla hoʻonaʻauao i ka ulu ʻana o ka meaʻai.

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