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Questions: Chapter 2

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Health Is Academic: A Guide to Coordinated School Health Programs

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Area of Responsibility: Responsibility II—Planning Effective Health Education Programs

The following questions are directly related to Chapter 2: Implementing Coordinated School Health Programs in Local Schools, written by J.V. Fetro, in Health Is Academic: A Guide to Coordinated School Health Programs. 

The answer sheet is available by clicking here: Answers: Chapter 2

Please answer the following questions:

1. According to the national focus group of school principals, board members, and district-level administrators convened to inform this chapter, all of the following characteristics contributed to successful implementation of innovative programs except:

  1. Potential to enhance, supplement, or support existing programs
  2. Unquestioning support from staff, students, families, and community members
  3. Perceived value in addressing identified needs
  4. Capacity for broadening the knowledge base of students or staff

2. The amount of professional development that staff will need in order to implement a coordinated school health program is descriptive of which of Rogers' five characteristics that are critical to successful implementation?

  1. Relative advantage
  2. Compatibility
  3. Complexity
  4. Trialability

3. Steps to implement a coordinated school health program (Figure 2.2):

  1. Must be done sequentially
  2. Will vary in sequence depending on local circumstances, but most schools will engage in all of them
  3. Must be completed in full
  4. Can only be initiated by district-level staff

4. A core group that might assume the role of a Healthy School Team is:

  1. A student study team
  2. A crisis response team
  3. A school site council
  4. Any of the above

5. What is a resource map?

  1. A depiction of programs and services currently in place in a school
  2. A map of the school, showing the locations of first aid and rescue equipment
  3. A tool to evaluate health programs and services
  4. A questionnaire sent to parents as part of needs assessment

6. Once a school has developed an implementation plan for a coordinated school health program, what support mechanism(s) will be needed?

  1. Professional development for school staff
  2. Ongoing communication among staff about what is and is not working
  3. A plan for technical assistance and collegial support
  4. All of the above

7. What do school or districts need to ensure the successful implementation and sustainability of a coordinated school health program?

  1. A principal who is a strong advocate, independent of district-level leadership
  2. A broad-based district advisory committee that works with and assists the Healthy School Team
  3. Strategies to discourage meetings where people discuss opposing viewpoints about charged issues
  4. The separation of a school's health goals from its educational goals

8. Communication, cooperation, coordination, and collaboration are described as which of the following?

  1. Key processes to help districts and schools strengthen support for coordinated school health programs
  2. Key processes to help districts and schools plan coordinated school health programs
  3. Key processes to help districts and schools implement coordinated school health programs
  4. All of the above

9. Implementing a coordinated school health program addresses which of the following Education Goals 2000?

  1. Goal 1
  2. Goal 4
  3. Goal 7
  4. All of the goals

10. Block grant funding:

  1. Increases accountability
  2. Decreases the likelihood of funding cuts
  3. Fixes allocations
  4. All of the above

 

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