ALEX Resources

   View Standards     Standard(s): [HE] (3) 12 :

3.4.1) Practice skills needed to develop and maintain personal relationships.

Examples: conflict resolution, role play

[HE] (3) 13 :

3.4.2) Discuss healthy ways to express needs, wants, and feelings.

Examples: using appropriate refusal skills, manners, communication

[HE] (4) 8 :

4.2.1) Explain the influence of culture on health practices and behaviors.

a. Explain the importance of good communication within the family unit.

[HE] (5) 12 :

5.4.1) Utilize effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to build and maintain relationships and enhance health.

[HE] (6) 13 :

6.4.1) Apply effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to enhance health.

Examples: praise, high-five, fist bump, thumbs up

a. Demonstrate appropriate nonverbal communication skills someone could use when upset.

Examples: walking away, remaining calm and quiet

[HE] (6) 15 :

6.4.3) Determine when and how to utilize different communication strategies to deal with a variety of situations and conflicts.

Examples: compromising, apologizing, addressing the issue

Topics that are okay with family may not be appropriate to share with a stranger, and conversations that are appropriate with friends on the schoolyard may not be meant for the holiday dinner table at Grandma’s. While teaching kids to initiate and communicate with others is crucial to making friends and thriving socially, students also need to learn what topics of conversation are appropriate with different types of people. 

Understanding the pragmatics of social communication is an essential life skill. We’ve created this set of lessons that can guide students through the different phases of appropriate and safe conversations as they meet and make friends, both in real life and digitally.

   View Standards     Standard(s): [HE] (6) 13 :

6.4.1) Apply effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to enhance health.

Examples: praise, high-five, fist bump, thumbs up

a. Demonstrate appropriate nonverbal communication skills someone could use when upset.

Examples: walking away, remaining calm and quiet

[HE] (7) 21 :

7.7.2) Demonstrate healthy practices and behaviors that will maintain or improve the health of self and others.

Examples: practicing proper use of prescription medications, good nutrition, proper rest, regular exercise; avoiding driver distractions

[HE] HED (9-12) 21 :

HE.4.4) Demonstrate how to ask for and offer assistance to enhance the health of self and others.

Examples: accessing crisis hotlines for suicide, sexual and physical abuse, and human trafficking; community resource materials

[HE] HA (10-12) 10 :

HA.7.1) Analyze the role of individual responsibility for enhancing health.

[HE] HA (10-12) 11 :

HA.7.2) Demonstrate a variety of healthy practices and behaviors that will maintain or improve the health of self and peers.

There are options for people with intellectual disabilities to live on their own. Assisted living programs help connect adults to housing in the community and assist them in skill building to promote independence. Cori Piels describes her transition and goals for living on her own. This video can be played during a lesson on promoting independent living and how to demonstrate healthy practices.

   View Standards     Standard(s): [HE] (4) 8 :

4.2.1) Explain the influence of culture on health practices and behaviors.

a. Explain the importance of good communication within the family unit.

[HE] (5) 8 :

5.2.1) Describe how the school and community can support personal health practices and behaviors.

a. Describe how positive and negative influences from family, peers, and culture affect adolescents' body acceptance during the changes of puberty.

[HE] (5) 12 :

5.4.1) Utilize effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to build and maintain relationships and enhance health.

[HE] (6) 13 :

6.4.1) Apply effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to enhance health.

Examples: praise, high-five, fist bump, thumbs up

a. Demonstrate appropriate nonverbal communication skills someone could use when upset.

Examples: walking away, remaining calm and quiet

[HE] (6) 15 :

6.4.3) Determine when and how to utilize different communication strategies to deal with a variety of situations and conflicts.

Examples: compromising, apologizing, addressing the issue

Learn to help students develop key skills for successful relationships: communication, cooperation, and conflict resolution. Educators can help students develop these skills by working together in groups and discussing roles. Parents can support their children by spending time with them and encouraging communication.

   View Standards     Standard(s): [HE] (4) 12 :

4.4.1) Demonstrate skills that communicate care, consideration, and respect for self and others.

Examples: parent, school nurse, counselor

[HE] (4) 14 :

4.4.3) Demonstrate how to avoid conflict and explain when it is necessary for an adult to intervene.

[HE] (5) 12 :

5.4.1) Utilize effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to build and maintain relationships and enhance health.

[HE] (6) 13 :

6.4.1) Apply effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to enhance health.

Examples: praise, high-five, fist bump, thumbs up

a. Demonstrate appropriate nonverbal communication skills someone could use when upset.

Examples: walking away, remaining calm and quiet

[HE] (6) 15 :

6.4.3) Determine when and how to utilize different communication strategies to deal with a variety of situations and conflicts.

Examples: compromising, apologizing, addressing the issue

Meet the GIRL!: Caraline is 17 years old and is a musician and nail technician student. She shares how she enjoys doing others’ nails as she gets to listen to them express themselves and share what is important to them. She shares that she enjoys that people see her as a trusted ear. By listening to others she gets to connect with people in an authentic way.