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= Welcome to Secondary Health and Physical Education =

Rose Haggerty, Manager Felicia Ceaser-White, Health Specialist Beverly Marlin, Health Specialist Phone: 713-556-6823 Fax: 713-556-6898
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 * DEPARTMENTAL PHILOSOPHY**

** ﻿ Health Education**  ﻿ Health Education focuses on the development of health and safety principles. This comprehensive program is designed to help students make responsible and informed decisions on matters important to their personal health and well-being. The curriculum stresses personal, mental, physical, and social development. Critical health issues are addressed, such as, disease prevention including HIV/STDs, human sexuality, sedentary life styles, inadequate nutrition, alcohol, drugs, gangs, violence, and death. Students are provided an opportunity to learn concepts that will enrich the quality of their life. Instructional activities stress life skills such as communication, conflict resolution, refusal, decision-making, goal-setting, interpersonal relationships and stress management.  **Physical Education** Physical Education focuses on the development of fitness for life. The design of a quality program should help students develop knowledge of fitness and psycho-motor skills through a variety of physical activities. The curriculum, therefore, emphasizes maximum participation in body awareness, conditioning, movement, games, sports, dance, tumbling, and gymnastic activities. Students are provided an opportunity to learn and practice fitness concepts while actively participating in a program that promotes physical awareness, social development and positive attitudes toward active lifestyles. Instructional activities stress life management skills, such as cooperation, fair-play, teamwork, citizenship, sportsmanship, and leadership.  The integration of health education concepts and physical fitness practices assist students in the development of wellness lifestyles. Even though health and physical education are two separate and distinct instructional programs, they both emphasize the achievement of one's personal best though physical fitness and health literacy.