Online Health Education Curriculum Resource Center

描述（由申请人提供）： 该提案要求支持在线健康教育课程资源中心的发展，为教师提供高质量的健康教育课程和课程计划，以改善美国学童的健康教育和信息传播。该项目将提供一个独特的信息资源，以直接满足在全国学校增加健康教育的需要。该项目的具体目标是： 1.开发一个基于网络的软件系统，以支持一个易于访问的健康教育课程资源中心; 2.确定和评估高质量的、公开的、与导致成人疾病的三种关键健康行为有关的在线健康教育课程和课程计划：缺乏体育活动、营养不良和烟草使用; 3.为高质量的在线健康教育课程和课程计划编制目录，并使其易于小学，初中和高中教师访问; 4.为利用资源中心评估网站的教育工作者提供一个论坛，对个人课程和课程计划发表评论，并讨论健康教育的创新方法; 5.试点测试资源中心与一群小学，初中和高中教师，以评估效用，易用性和有效性。 该项目将在纽约医学科学院进行，这是一个独立的非营利机构，自1847年以来一直致力于通过研究，教育和宣传来提高公众的健康。该学院的信息管理司负责制定创新战略，向专业人员和公众传播卫生信息。30多年来，它一直是国家医学图书馆的区域医学图书馆。该学院的学校健康计划办公室支持纽约市教师和学校的健康教育需求超过二十年，通过密集的健康教育研讨会，课程开发和技术援助。这些团体将开展合作，作为学院目标的直接延伸，越来越多地通过计算机技术向公众提供卫生信息。 该项目将在一个专家咨询委员会的协助下完成，该委员会将提供指导和咨询，并帮助制定评价课程和课程计划的标准。将利用在健康教育、课程编制和课堂教学方面具有专门知识的额外外部审查员对课程和课程计划进行结构化评价。 该资源中心的实用性、易用性和有效性将由一组小学、初中和高中教师进行评估。作为项目的一部分，将制定资源中心的长期发展和可持续性计划。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal requests support for the development of the Online Health Education Curriculum Resource Center to provide teachers with access to high quality health education curricula and lesson plans in order to improve health instruction and information dissemination to America's school children. This project will provide a unique information resource to directly respond to the need to increase health education in the nation's schools. The specific aims of the project are to: 1. Develop a web based software system to support an easily accessible health education curriculum resource center; 2. Identify and evaluate high quality, publicly available, online health education curricula and lesson plans related to three critical health behaviors responsible for adult disease: lack of physical activity, poor nutrition, and tobacco use; 3. Catalog high quality online health education curricula and lesson plans and make them easily accessible to elementary, middle, and high school teachers; 4. Provide a forum for educators who utilize the resource center to evaluate the site, add comments about individual curricula and lesson plans, and discuss innovative approaches in health education; 5. Pilot test the resource center with a cohort of elementary, middle and high school teachers in order to evaluate utility, ease of access, and effectiveness. This project will be performed at The New York Academy of Medicine, an independent, non-profit institution, committed since 1847 to enhancing the health of the public through research, education, and advocacy. The Division of Information management of the Academy is responsible for developing innovative strategies to disseminate health information to professionals and the public. It has been the site of the Regional Medical Library of the National Library of Medicine for over thirty years. The Office of School Health Programs of the Academy has supported the health education needs of New York City teachers and schools for over twenty years through intensive health education workshops, curricular development, and technical assistance. These groups will collaborate as a direct extension of the goal of the Academy to bring health information to the public, increasingly through computer technology. The project will be accomplished with the assistance of an Expert Advisory Committee to provide guidance and consultation and to help set the criteria for evaluation of curricula and lesson plans. Additional outside reviewers with expertise in health education, curriculum development, and classroom teaching will be utilized to provide a structured evaluation of curricula and lesson plans. The utility, ease of access and effectiveness of the resource center will be evaluated by a cohort of elementary, middle school and high school teachers. A plan for the long-term development and sustainability of the resource center will be developed as part of the project.