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Standards for the
Preparation of Introduction The following
standards and competencies were developed by a team of Michigan educators, based
on the accreditation standards used by NCATE and developed by the American
Association of Health Education (AAHE). These standards are directly aligned
with the responsibility areas, competencies and subcompetencies of the
accreditation standards currently in use. There are three important differences,
however. The Michigan standards are specific to school health education. The NCATE accreditation standards were developed by AAHE, a professional organization for health educators working in a variety of contexts, including community health agencies. The standards were, therefore, not always clearly applicable to the preparation experience of an entry level health teacher. The Michigan standards clarify how these competencies apply in a school setting. The Michigan standards are performance-based. The standards describe competencies that entry level school health education teachers need in order to teach. To demonstrate competent performance, a teacher must be fluent in both the concepts that underlie the competencies, and the behaviors that demonstrate them. In order to avoid redundancy, conceptual knowledge is dealt with in the first standard only, just as it is in the K-12 Health Education Content Standards. The remaining standards address the behaviors that competent health teachers should demonstrate. The Michigan standards are aligned with the Michigan Curriculum Framework, including the Michigan Health Education Content Standards and Benchmarks. All Michigan teachers, including health education teachers, are being expected to use specific content standards and process standards to facilitate student learning. These standards will ensure that teachers themselves will have developed the competencies, before leaving their teacher preparation program, that will be expected of their students in the K-12 classroom. It will also ensure that beginning health education teachers will become competent in the same Teaching and Learning Standards as teachers in other curriculum areas. For your convenience, a Glossary of Terms for the Content Areas in K-12 Health Education is available as Appendix A. A comparison of the Michigan standards with the AAHE standards is attached as Appendix B. Resources identified in the standards may be found on various Internet web sites, identified in Appendix C. Appendix D illustrates the “continuous learning cycle” referred to in the standards. Appendix E provides a list of the educators who comprised the work group that developed the Michigan standards. |
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This page last updated on:
05/17/06
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