Conclusion School staff can become staunch advocates of comprehensive health when they are able to identify their personal and professional stake in its fruition. This recognition is ultimately premised on the understanding that comprehensive health education encompasses every facet of human health and wellness. A comprehensive health education program in a middle school is unique to its setting, population, and history. Please refer to chapter texts for further clarification. Lack of team planning time.
Block scheduling lends itself to team empowerment and creativity in the flow of a school day.
Include health teachers in team planning. Pressures of education reform and other mandated programs that have left administrators trying to balance conflicting priorities. Lack of awareness of the connection between healthy students and their readiness to learn. Lack of adequately trained, veteran teachers responsible for the teaching of health. Lack of information about new health education methods and philosophy.