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Professional Standards for Health Education Teacher Preparation
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Frauenknecht, Marianne – Health Educator, 2005
One of the most recent waves of reform in public education began in 1989 when the governors and legislators identified eight goals for the "Goals 2000: Educate America Act" (U.S. Department of Education, 1994). This legislation promulgated the need for standards-based education and impacted health education in several ways. "Goals 2000"…
Descriptors: Professional Associations, Educational Change, Professional Development, Public Education
Needs Assessment in School Health Education: Comparing the Expressed Needs of Students in Seven Schools.
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Frauenknecht, Marianne; Droog, Rebecca; Minnear, Stacey – Health Educator: Journal of Eta Sigma Gamma, 1999
Examined the expressed needs or health interests of high school freshmen enrolled in health education at seven high schools, comparing the interests according to school. Students completed the Needs Assessment Content Survey. Results indicated that significant differences existed among the students at the seven schools. There were differences for…
Descriptors: Comprehensive School Health Education, High School Freshmen, High Schools, Needs Assessment
Health Education in Practice. Taking the Quilt to the Classroom: A Lesson about the Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt.
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Voss, Victoria; Frauenknecht, Marianne – Health Educator: Journal of Eta Sigma Gamma, 1996
Presents ideas for a lesson that allows elementary and secondary students to experience an iconic representation of the Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt in the classroom. By visualizing the quilt exhibit through pictures of individual panels, students can develop a greater appreciation of the human toll taken by the AIDS epidemic. (SM)
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Comprehensive School Health Education, Consciousness Raising, Creative Teaching