The Health Education Guidance Document mirrors a standards-based backwards design process and provides a detailed framework, which enables educators to develop or refine their health education curriculum, instruction and assessment practices in ways that are aligned with district, state and national standards.  It provides definition to the design process by connecting the New York State and National Health Education Standards for Learning and the related Performance Indicators to the Essential Student Questions, "What health knowledge and skills do I need to know and be able to do to be safe, health, and achieve the NYS and National Standards"?

The Resource Guide contains the following components that are critical to student health and academic achievement: the New York State and Nation Health Education Standards and Performance Indicators, the Essential Student Questions, Authentic Assessment, Diagnostic Questions, Guiding Questions, Enduring Understandings, Health Education Skills, Functional Knowledge, and Skill Pedagogy.

(Adapted from the New York State Education Department/Student Support Services Network Health Education Curriculum and Assessment Leadership Team, Scope and Sequence, Draft 2, May 2004)

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