Health education supports students\u2019 health, resilience, total well-being and academic success so they may reach their aspirations, from early learning through college, career and citizenship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u2019 social, emotional, mental, physical, and cognitive development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gi\u00e1o d\u1ee5c s\u1ee9c kh\u1ecfe ng\u00e0y nay<\/a> ph\u1ea3n \u00e1nh kh\u1ed1i l\u01b0\u1ee3ng nghi\u00ean c\u1ee9u ng\u00e0y c\u00e0ng t\u0103ng nh\u1ea5n m\u1ea1nh:<\/p>\n\n\n\n C\u00e1c National Health Education Standards: Achieving Excellence (NHES)<\/a> are fused on developing students\u2019 health literacy skills to proficiency within and across grade levels:<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Note: Health Education in prekindergarten is aligned to the Hawai\u2018i Early Learning and Development Standards (HELDS)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gi\u00e1o d\u1ee5c s\u1ee9c kh\u1ecfe l\u00e0 b\u1eaft bu\u1ed9c \u1edf t\u1ea5t c\u1ea3 c\u00e1c l\u1edbp ti\u1ec3u h\u1ecdc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Middle\/intermediate schools must offer courses that allow all students to meet Hawai\u02bbi\u055as 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In high school, a one-semester course (0.5 credits; 60 hours) in Health Education is required for graduation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A variety of Health specialized elective courses (e.g., Peer Education) are available at the secondary school level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u0110\u1ed1i v\u1edbi c\u00e1c y\u00eau c\u1ea7u v\u1ec1 vi\u1ec7c th\u0103ng c\u1ea5p trung h\u1ecdc c\u01a1 s\u1edf v\u00e0 t\u1ed1t nghi\u1ec7p trung h\u1ecdc ph\u1ed5 th\u00f4ng, h\u00e3y tham kh\u1ea3o Board Policy 105-1 Academic Program<\/a>, Board Policy 102-9 Middle Level Education Promotion Policy<\/a>, V\u00e0 Board Policy 102-15 High School Graduation Requirements and Commencement<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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 H\u01b0\u1edbng d\u1eabn ch\u0103m s\u00f3c s\u1ee9c kh\u1ecfe<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Guidelines for health education and nutrition promotion are organized around four key components:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Additional information may be found in the following resources:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ch\u01b0\u01a1ng tr\u00ecnh gi\u00e1o d\u1ee5c s\u1ee9c kh\u1ecfe<\/p>\n\n\n\n Phone: (808) 784-6423<\/p>\n\n\n\n E-mail: health.education@k12.hi.us<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Health education supports students\u2019 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. 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