Making the Connection: Health and Student Achievement
Name : Making the Connection: Health and Student Achievement.
Category : Health
Files Source: www.thesociety.org
File Added : July 26, 2010
Size : 13,11 MB
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This online presentation about good health is necessary for academic success, coordinated school health programs are a solution, components of a coordinated school health program, how do the components of a coordinated school health program impact behavior or academic achievement?, and other.
Content summary :
* Provide an overview of research on links between health status, health behavior, and academic achievement
* Gain a greater understanding of the influence of school health programs on student success
* “Clearly, no knowledge is more crucial than knowledge about health. Without it, no other life goal can be successfully achieved.”
* “Too many of our children start school unready to meet the challenges of learning, and are adversely influenced by… drug use and alcohol abuse, random violence, adolescent pregnancy, AIDS, and the rest.”
*“Health and education go hand in hand: one cannot exist without the other. To believe any differently is to hamper progress. Just as our children have a right to receive the best education available, they have a right to be healthy. As parents, legislators, and educators, it is up to us to see that this becomes a reality.”
* “[Children] …who face violence, hunger, substance abuse, unintended pregnancy, and despair cannot possibly focus on academic excellence. There is no curriculum brilliant enough to compensate for a hungry stomach or a distracted mind.”
* Engage parents, teachers, students, families, and communities
* Help keep students healthy
* Support learning and success in school
* Reinforce positive behaviors
* Help students develop knowledge and skills to make smart choices…..” Download for more information!!
