Many health classrooms are still driven by content coverage, leaving teachers unsure how to turn standards into meaningful, skill-based learning. This session introduces a practical Skills-Based Health Education Instructional Playbook designed to help educators shift from teaching topics to developing transferable health skills students can actually use.
Grounded in the Pennsylvania Academic Standards for Health, Safety, and Physical Education and informed by the SHAPE America National Health Education Standards, this session offers a clear, classroom-ready approach to planning, instruction, and assessment. The playbook is organized around four key areas: foundations, lesson design, instructional delivery, and performance-based assessment.
Participants will actively work through short, structured tasks to rethink a lesson through a skills-based lens. This includes identifying target skills, revising learning activities, and aligning assessments to student performance. The session is designed to feel practical and collaborative, with time to test ideas, talk through decisions, and see what this approach looks like in action.
Participants will leave with a partially developed lesson, ready-to-use planning tools, and a simple process they can apply immediately to strengthen instruction and better align their teaching to state and national standards.
