Problem
Based on your reading and experience:
1. Discuss the physical conditions necessary for optimal learning and your role as a teacher in developing a healthful school environment.
2. Discuss the relationship of personal, family, school, community, and environmental factors as related to student academic, physical, emotional, and social well-being.
3. How do you gain the support of all invested stakeholders, for example, the school board, parents, community organizations, and others, into the concept of HEALTHY SCHOOL CULTURE?
4. In what capacities can the teacher be an advocate for and provider of a healthful and safe school right in his/her own classroom?
5. What might a healthful and safe classroom look like physically?
6. What would its social environment be like?
7. How would you infuse health education into the curriculum?
8. What areas of the curriculum do you see this material being infused?
9. Consider health education in general: personal health, fitness & nutrition.