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Promoting Health and Emotional Well-Being in Your Classroom, Fifth Edition

Author(s): Randy M. Page, PhD, Brigham Young University
Tana S. Page, MS, Brigham Young University
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763776121
  • Paperback    438 pages      © 2011
Price: International Sales $102.95 US List
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Overview

Promoting Health and Emotional Well-Being in Your Classroom, Fifth Edition provides pre-service and current teachers all the tools and up-to-date information needed for effectively promoting healthy life choices. Framed around the National Health Education Standards and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s six risk behaviors, this practical text facilitates instructional planning, allows for easy adaptation into various curricular frameworks, and ensures that the most essential health education content is addressed.

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ShowKey Features

  • Foundation chapters, which focus on characteristics and practices of highly effective teachers, and include new and expanded coverage of 21st Century teaching, instructional planning, and models for behavior change
  • Expanded life skill chapters that are presented early in the text for easy integration into the updated risk behavior chapters that follow.
  • New content on infectious and chronic diseases, stress management, information literacy, advocacy, assessment, cyber bullying, and much more!
  • New chapter application exercises for readers to assess their personal knowledge, habits, and attitudes.
  • Up-to-date facts and statistics throughout to identify behaviors and relative risks.
  • Over 275 interactive teaching activities, more than half of which are new to this edition.
  • Referrals to free downloadable unit plans and lesson plans for every grade level.
  • Referrals to free downloadable teaching material including games and video clips.
  • Free downloadable Instructor Resources, including PowerPoint Presentations, Test Bank Questions, Chapter Outlines, a Sample Course Syllabus, and Assignment/Activity Ideas.


 

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Randy M. Page, PhD-Brigham Young University

Dr. Page teaches in the Department of Health Science at Brigham Young University. He has also taught at the University of Idaho, The Ohio State University, University of Northern Colorado, and SUNY Cortland. Dr. Page has published extensively in refereed journals on a number of topics. His current research interests include adolescent health, media literacy, substance abuse, and global health. He has written texts in school health education, epidemiology, drug abuse, and violence prevention.

Tana S. Page, MS-Brigham Young University

Ms. Page teaches courses in elementary and secondary health education in the Department of Health Science at Brigham Young University.  She has also taught at the University of Idaho and provides school district teacher training in-service programs. Her major areas of interest include teacher training, 21st Century Life Skills instruction and all aspects of mental and emotional health.

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ShowAppropriate Courses

  • Child Health Issues 
  • Adolescent Health
  • Elementary School Health Education
  • Heath Education Methods
  • Secondary Health Education
  • School Health Education
  • Emotional Health and Development
  • Child and Family Development
  • Youth at Risk
  • Classroom Management and Discipline
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