Health Education of the Coordinated School Health Model

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Coordinated School Health Model, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Health Education is a component of the Coordinated School Health Model, which consists of a planned, sequential, K-12 curriculum that addresses the physical, mental, emotional and social dimensions of health. The curriculum is designed to motivate and assist students to maintain and improve their health, prevent disease, and reduce health-related risk behaviors. It allows students to develop and demonstrate increasingly sophisticated health-related knowledge, attitudes, skills, and practices. The comprehensive health education curriculum includes a variety of topics such as personal health, family health, community health, consumer health, environmental health, mental and emotional health, injury prevention and safety, nutrition, prevention and control of disease, and substance use and abuse. Qualified, trained teachers provide health education.

Health Education Curriculum provides direction and leadership to both the Health and Physical Education programs for schools.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides a HIV Prevention Grant and promotes a Healthy Schools, Healthy Youth program. Schools play a critical role in promoting the health and safety of young people and helping them establish lifelong healthy behavior patterns.

The Sports Link to Prevention of Drug Use provides support to administrators, coaches, teachers, parents, and students who wish to prevent students from illegal drug use.

Anabolic Steroid Testing Program contains information pertaining to the UIL Anabolic Steroid Testing Program

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For More Information Contact:

Curriculum Division
512/463-9581
healthandsafety@tea.state.tx.us

Page last modified on 8/8/2012.

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