Standard 8
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Students will demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family, and community health.
Rationale: Advocacy skills help students promote healthy norms and healthy behaviors. This standard helps students develop important skills to target their health-enhancing messages and to encourage others to adopt healthy behaviors.
Performance Indicators*
| Pre-K-Grade 2 | |
|---|---|
| 8.2.1 | Make requests to promote personal health. |
| 8.2.2 | Encourage peers to make positive health choices. |
| Grades 3-5 | |
| 8.5.1 | Express opinions and give accurate information about health issues. |
| 8.5.2 | Encourage others to make positive health choices. |
| Grades 6-8 | |
| 8.8.1 | State a health-enhancing position on a topic and support it with accurate information. |
| 8.8.2 | Demonstrate how to influence and support others to make positive health choices. |
| 8.8.3 | Work cooperatively to advocate for healthy individuals, families, and schools. |
| 8.8.4 | Identify ways in which health messages and communication techniques can be altered for different audiences. |
| Grades 9-12 | |
| 8.12.1 | Utilize accurate peer and societal norms to formulate a health-enhancing message. |
| 8.12.2 | Demonstrate how to influence and support others to make positive health choices. |
| 8.12.3 | Work cooperatively as an advocate for improving personal, family, and community health. |
| 8.12.4 | Adapt health messages and communication techniques to a specific target audience. |
* The performance indicators articulate specifically what students should know or be able to do in support of each standard by the conclusion of each of the following grade spans: Pre-K–Grade 2; Grade 3–Grade 5; Grade 6–Grade 8; and Grade 9–Grade 12. The performance indicators serve as a blueprint for organizing student assessment.
- Page last reviewed: June 17, 2015
- Page last updated: June 17, 2015
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