PARKER SCHOOL CRITERIA FOR EXCELLENCE IN WELLNESS

SELF-MANAGEMENT

• You identify responsible health behaviors.
• You identify your personal health needs.
• You compare your behaviors that are safe to those that are risky or harmful.
• You demonstrate strategies to improve or maintain your personal health.
• You develop injury prevention and management strategies for your personal health.
• You demonstrate ways to avoid and reduce threatening situations.
• You apply skills to manage stress.

INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION

• You demonstrate effective verbal and non-verbal communication skills to enhance health.
• You demonstrate healthy ways to express needs, wants and feelings.
• You demonstrate ways to communicate care, consideration, and respect of self and others.
• You demonstrate communication skills to build and maintain health relationships.
• You demonstrate refusal, negotiation, and collaboration skills to manage conflict in healthy ways.

ACCESSING INFORMATION

• You evaluate the validity of health information, products and services.
• You demonstrate the ability to utilize resources from home, school, and community that provide valid health information.
• You analyze how media influences the selection of health information and products.
• You demonstrate the ability to access school and community health services for self and others.

DECISION-MAKING and GOAL SETTING

• You demonstrate the ability to utilize various strategies when making decisions related to health needs.
• You analyze how health-related decisions are influenced by individuals, family and community values.
• You predict how decisions regarding health behaviors have consequences for self and others.
• You implement strategies and skills needed to attain personal health goals.
• You evaluate progress toward achieving personal health goals.

HEALTH ADVOCACY

• You evaluate the effectiveness of communication methods for accurately expressing health information and ideas.
• You express information and opinions about health issues.
• You utilize strategies to overcome barriers when communicating information, ideas, feelings, and opinions about health issues.
• You demonstrate the ability to influence and support others in making positive health choices.
• You demonstrate the ability to work cooperatively when advocating for healthy communities.
• You demonstrate the ability to adapt health messages and communication techniques to your audience.

INTERNAL and EXTERNAL INFLUENCES

• You describe the influence of cultural beliefs on health behaviors and the use of health services.
• You analyze how messages from media and other sources influence health behaviors.
• You analyze the influence of technology on personal and family health.
• You analyze how information from your peers and your community influences health.

PHYSICAL FITNESS and MOVEMENT

• You participate regularly in physical activity and movement.

• You achieve and maintain a personal health-enhancing level of physical fitness.
• You exhibit responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings.
• You demonstrate competency in motor skills and movement patterns needed to perform a variety of physical activities to maintain your personal health.