pedagogy

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION

SCHOOL HEALTH AND NUTRITION

Pedagogy of health education

Health education is most effective when the teacher:
_{- conducts a "needs analysis" as a first step in deciding what are the
health needs of the pupils, school and community}
_{- creates a comfortable, supportive, co-operative and healthy learning environment}
_{- involves their community}
_{- builds on what the pupils know}
_{- progressively returns to a number of key health topics throughout a child's
schooling}
_{- does not present the material as "problems" and the pupils as
"victims"}
_{- facilitates learning through a variety of modalities (students doing, seeing,
reading, listening...) which are student-centred and task-based.}
_{- includes social aspects of health alongside the physical and mental}