Health Education Curriculum

1. Health Education Curriculum Aurora A. Franco Assistant Schools Division Superintendent, DCS-Manila Member, Teacher Education Council

2. A Basis of the Curriculum: SCHOOL HEALTH DATA 67% suffer from parasitism 97% have dental caries

3. 40% pediculosis (kuto) 15% are undernourished

4. Iron deficiency anemia 3% are overweight

5. Upper Respiratory Infection Hearing and Visual Impairment (Impacted cerumen)

6. National Situation among areas: road safety, drugs

7. BASIC INFORMATION • Learning Area: Health Education (MAPEH) • Time Allotment: • Grade 1 40/30 mins./week • Grades 2-4 30 mins. • Grades 5-6 40 mins. • Grades 7-10 60 mins.

8. BASIC INFORMATION • Language of Instruction • Grades 1-3 Mother Tongue • Grades 4-5 Filipino • Grades 6-10 English

9. Content Areas Growth and Development Community and Environmental Health Personal Health Achieve, Sustain and Promote Lifelong Wellness Consumer Health Nutrition Injury prevention and safety Substance Use and Abuse Disease prevention and control Family Health

10. Features of the Health Education Package I. Curriculum Guide A. Conceptual framework from K to 12 – Learners should be able achieve, sustain and promote lifelong wellness B. Teaching guides Lesson guides which specify the content and performance standards to be developed C. Pre and post tests D. Suggested strategies for motivation and development of the lesson E. Background Information for teachers

11. Health Education Package II. Activity Sheets a. Include simple activities appropriate for the target users b. Replete with pictures which make learning more fun c. Materials used are readily available/easy to get d. Activities promote group interactions which help develop cooperation, critical thinking and reasoning

12. Levels of Standards • Learning Area Standard – This gives a picture of the overarching norm or benchmark for health education in K to 12 • Key Stage Standards – These are the standards for health education in the different clusters of grade levels in K to 12 (K-3, 4-6, 7-10) • Grade Level Standards - These include the expectations for each grade level ( G 1 -12)

13. Learning Area Standard Achieve, Promote and sustain life-long wellness

14. Key Stage Standard The learner is able to: . Demonstrate understanding and observance of healthy practices to achieve life-long wellness.

15. Grade Level Standard • Grade 1 – the learner demonstrates understanding of essential concepts related to nutrition, personal health, and safety to enhance health and well-being. • Grade 2 – The learner demonstrates understanding of personal health, disease prevention and control; injury prevention, safety and first aid, and consumer health to achieve optimum health

16. Grade Level Standard Grade 3 – The learner demonstrates understanding of family health, disease prevention and control; injury prevention, safety and first aid and consumer health to achieve optimum health and well-being. Grade 4 – The learner demonstrates understanding of nutrition, injury prevention, safety and first aid and substance use and abuse to achieve optimum health.

17. Grade Level Standard • Grade 5 – The learner demonstrates understanding of the nature of growth and development, accident prevention, safety and first aid, substance use and abuse and community and environmental concerns on health. • Grade 6 – The learner demonstrates understanding of personal health, disease prevention and control and consumer health to achieve the desired level of health

18. Grade Level Standard • Grade 7 – The learner demonstrates understanding of growth and development, nutrition, disease prevention and control and community and environmental health and their impact on the individual’s health and well-being

19. Grade Level Standard • Grade 8 – The learner demonstrates understanding of family health, disease prevention and control personal health and injury prevention, safety and first aid to develop and promote wellness for quality life. • Grade 9 – The learner demonstrates understanding of injury prevention, safety and first aid, substance use and abuse and the promotion of consumer health to achieve wellness in life

20. Grade Level Standard • Grade 10 – The learner demonstrates understanding of injury prevention, safety and first aid,, family health, health trends, issues and concerns, the development of a health plan and exploration of careers in health to promote wellness for quality life

21. In summary...... • The grade level standards revolve around the following topics:

22. Content Areas in Health Education Personal Health

23. Content Areas in Health Education Nutrition

24. Content Areas in Health Education Substance Use and Abuse

25. Content Areas in Health Education Family Health

26. Content Areas in Health Education Prevention and control of diseases and disorders

27. Content Areas in Health Education Injury Prevention, Safety and First Aid

28. Content Areas in Health Education Consumer Health

29. Content Areas in Health Education Community and Environmental Health

30. Grade Level Matrix

31. In conclusion... The K to 12 is the government’s response to the changing world. In any kind of change, there will always be resistance. Let us not be victims of change! Let us be the catalysts of change!

32. The Parable of the Coffee Beans

33. There was once an intelligent teacher who experimented withboiling water

34. She put three pots of water over the fire.

35. In the first pot, she put some carrots.

36. In the second pot, she put some eggs.

37. In the third pot, she put some coffee beans that had been grounded into coffee powder.

38. She boiled all three pots for 15 minutes. Afterwards, she took out what she had put in the pot of boiling water.

39. The carrots which were hard became soft The eggs which were soft inside became hard.

40. The coffee powder disappeared. But the water had the colour and the wonderful smell of coffee.

41. Then, she thought of her life as a teacher. Life of a teacher is not always easy. Life of a teacher is not always comfortable. Oftentimes, life of a teacher is trying and difficult.

42. Things don’t happen as we wish. People don’t treat us as we hope. We work very hard but get few results.

43. The boiling water is like the problems in our life as teachers.

44. We can be like the carrots. We come out soft and weak. We go in tough and strong.

45. We get very tired. We lose hope. We give up. There is no more fighting spirit.

46. We can be like the eggs. We start with a soft and sensitive heart. We end up very hard and unfeeling inside.

47. We hate our job. We don’t like our students. We become hard-hearted. There is no warm feeling, only bitterness.

48. We can be like the coffee beans. The water does not change the coffee powder. The coffee powder changes the water!

49. The water has become different because of the coffee powder. You can see it. You can smell it. You can taste it. The hotterthe water, the betterthe taste.

50. We can be like the coffee beans. We can make something good from the difficulties we face at school.