Strengthening Your HEALTH EDUCATION Program: Innovative Strategies, Activities and Resources (Grades 6-12) Presented by Allison Fink Award-Winning Health Educator and Presenter

Specifically Designed for Grades 6-12 Health Educators

• New and innovative strategies for building or enhancing your grades 6-12 skills-based health education program
• The latest health information on nutrition, mental health, sexuality education, alcohol, drugs, and more
• Proven skills-based health curriculum teaching strategies … Strengthen your students' health literacy skills including decision-making, communication and advocacy, and analyzing influences
• Practical methods for teaching violence prevention, consent, and peer influences … Help students take greater responsibility for their own and others' personal health and safety

Practical Ideas and Strategies

In this interactive, highly engaging seminar, award-winning health education teacher Allison Fink will share effective ways to help your students better address the most critical health issues they face today. Allison will present a wealth of practical strategies and the most useful skills-based health education resources to help you better equip your students with the essential information and skills they need to make healthy decisions.

You'll learn new and innovative strategies to help your students develop health promoting attitudes and behaviors. Allison will share the most up-to-date information on mental health, alcohol, prescription drugs, sexuality education, and nutrition. Explore lessons designed to strengthen your students' health literacy skills including decision-making, communication and advocacy, analyzing influences, and more!

You will leave with cutting-edge strategies, engaging activities, and practical resources perfect for building or enhancing your comprehensive grades 6-12 skills-based health education program.

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

1. Maximize the Benefits of Your Skills-Based Health Program
   Receive outstanding skills-based instructional strategies you can use to strengthen students' health knowledge … Gain new, innovative strategies perfect for building or enhancing your comprehensive grades 6-12 health education program
2. Make a Lasting Impact on Your Students' Health
   Help your students develop and maintain health enhancing behaviors using a skills-based health approach … Teach health skills that improve your students' overall health and wellness and their attitude, behavior, and decision-making skills
3. Explore Great Ways to Use Artificial Intelligence Tools in Your Health Classroom
   Discover how AI can enhance learning by personalizing instruction, delivering instant feedback, and simulating real-life health scenarios to deepen student understanding
4. Integrate the Most Current Alcohol and Drug Abuse Information
   Explore specific health lessons that address prescription drug abuse, recreational drugs and underage drinking … Help students develop the knowledge and skills needed to make healthy decisions
5. Address Social Media's Impact on Your Students' Health Behaviors
   Learn effective strategies that will help you better address the tremendous impact that social media can have on students' knowledge and attitudes of what is appropriate and genuinely healthy
6. Incorporate the Latest Information on Mental Health
   The most current health information on mental health and its impact on your student population … Discover effective health education strategies to help you better address the tremendous mental health issues facing students today
7. Easily Infuse Project-Based Learning in Your Health Instruction
   Learn doable, timesaving ways to incorporate engaging project-based learning into your curriculum to immerse students in critical health education learning … Improve students' health skills, knowledge, and critical thinking
8. Utilize Fully Comprehensive Sexuality Education Curriculum
   Update your sexuality education instruction to incorporate topics of emerging awareness
9. Sexual Harassment and Bullying: Equip Students With Tools They Need
   Gain health education tools to help address and prevent sexual harassment and bullying behaviors … Utilize specific lessons that allow your students to take greater responsibility for the health and well-being of themselves and others
10. Receive a Comprehensive Health Education Digital Resource Handbook
    You will receive an extensive digital resource handbook filled with ideas, strategies, practical concepts, and activities to strengthen your grades 6-12 health education program

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

Here's what you'll learn:

• The best, innovative strategies, activities and resources for building or enhancing your grades 6-12 health education program
• Key components of effective skills-based health curriculum and programs
• Ways to help your students analyze the internal and external influences on their own health
• Highly effective, immersive real-world scenarios to improve healthy decision-making
• Many valuable resources to help students critically evaluate health information
• Practical strategies that get students advocating for themselves and others to maintain healthy behaviors
• Highly effective techniques to decrease students' discomfort discussing uncomfortable health topics
• Ways to promote empathy in students, allowing them to become more aware of the effect their behaviors and attitudes have on others
• Proven health education strategies to build students' confidence, self-esteem, self-worth, and healthy decision-making
• Powerful strategies to increase students' risk awareness of drug and alcohol use
• Timesaving, easy-to-incorporate, project-based learning strategies that increase student retention of important health education skills and concepts
• Current health information on prescription drug abuse, recreational drugs and underage drinking
• Health education strategies to help you better address the tremendous mental health issues facing students today

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

In my many years as a grades 6-12 health educator, I've come to realize that health is one of the most beneficial classes our students will ever take. To me, the most rewarding part of teaching health is when students come to feel a greater sense of responsibility for their own and their peers' personal health and safety. My goal is to provide students with rich and meaningful experiences to promote healthy attitudes and behaviors.

I look forward to welcoming you to a day that will be filled with a wealth of practical strategies and activities you can use in your own health education classroom – right away! Not only will these practical resources and strategies increase your students' health knowledge, but they will also enhance your students' health and wellness.

Specifically designed for grades 6-12 health educators, our day will focus on a skills-based health approach as we explore dozens of innovative strategies, engaging activities, and practical resources perfect for building or enhancing your health education program.

Based on the National Health Education Standards, I will share highly effective ways to make best use of a skills-based health education approach. We'll explore many practical techniques and resources you can use to improve your students' overall health and wellness and their attitude, behavior and decision-making skills.

I look forward to meeting you at the seminar.

Sincerely,
Allison Fink

P.S. You will leave with dozens of resources and strategies that you can implement immediately into your health education classroom.

Who Should Attend

Grades 6-12 Health Educators

About BER Live Online Events

With the current health challenges, all BER in-person PD events are currently being presented in a Live Online format:

• Outstanding Instructors
  All programs are led by outstanding BER national trainers
• Extensive Resource Handbooks
  You'll have access to an extensive digital Resource Handbook before, during and after your seminar
• Highly Interactive
  You'll be able to ask questions in real time and interact with the instructor and other participants
• Program Guarantee
  As we have for 48 years, we guarantee the high quality of our programs. If you are not satisfied, we'll give you a 100% refund.

Special Benefits of Attending

Extensive Health Education Digital Resource Handbook
You will receive an extensive digital resource handbook specifically designed for this seminar. Included in the handbook are:

• Practical resources and strategies for building and enhancing your skills-based health education program
• Engaging activities designed to enhance your students' knowledge and promote healthy decision-making
• Doable, timesaving ways to incorporate project-based learning in the health classroom
• Lesson ideas and resources for important health topics, including prescription drugs, alcohol, nutrition, sexuality education, mental health, and more

For in-person seminars, registrants will also receive a printed copy of the resource handbook as long as their registration is received in the BER office at least 15 calendar days before the event.

Share Ideas
This seminar provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to share ideas with other educators interested in building or enhancing effective skills-based health education programs.

Consultation Available
Allison Fink will be available for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own program.

Semester Credit Option
Up to four graduate level professional development credits are available with an additional fee and completion of follow-up practicum activities. Details for direct enrollment with University of Massachusetts Global, a nonprofit affiliate, will be available at this program.

Meet Inservice Requirements
Participants of both the Live Online Seminar and those completing the Recorded Version online can receive a certificate of participation that may be used to verify five continuing education hours. State CEUs are available for both versions of the course. For specific details, visit www.ber.org/ceus.

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