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• Supportive social services
CHAPTER 11 : HEALTH INFORMATION AND TRAINING OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION TEACHERS
• Counsellor/Special Educator

11.4.2 Benefits of Health Education Curricula and Instructions to Help Students:

• Acquire lifelong learning skills, which will be used to make healthy choices.

• The achievement of curricula leads to positive behavioural changes that reduce

the student's risk of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs, injury prevention, mental
and emotional health, nutrition, physical activity, disease prevention, sexuality and

family life.

• Health education facilitates other concepts of learning. One study revealed that math
and reading scores were considerably higher for third and fourth grade students

who obtained extensive health education than those who did not. In general, healthy
students are able to learn better.

• Many studies have shown that healthier students in school generally do better. They
have better attendance, higher grades and superior performance in exams.

11.4.3 HPe Curriculum (Health and Physical education):

Given these goals, the overall and specific objectives of a HPE curriculum are outlined
below:

Overall Objectives of HPE:

a. Create awareness of the significance of health and fitness, including life skills, in
individual and collective life.

b. To raise the general awareness of personal health and fitness values and to instil
the required behaviours and attitudes towards health among students in order to

increase their state of health.

c. Making the students physically, mentally and emotionally fit and building such
personal and social qualities to help them become decent people.

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