12HEA

12HEA - Health - NCEA Level 2

Subject Description

Teacher in Charge: Mr A. Venter.

Y12 Health (12HEA)

Level 2 Health extends on the principles and key concepts developed in Year 11 such as personal, interpersonal and societal influences, making health-enhancing decisions and developing action plans to promote well-being for themselves, others and in the wider community.

Course	Leads To	Aimed at	Assessment
12HEA	13HEA (NCEA Level 3)	Mainstream students	Exams and assignments

Topics covered:

- Adolescent Health Issues

- Managing Change

- Enhancing People's Well-being

- Analysing an Interpersonal Issue

Achievement Standard 2.1: Analyse An Adolescent Health Issue
This is an end of year exam that requires students to analyse a health issue. They explain the influences on the issue, consequences for Hauora, health enhancing strategies that promote well being.

Stress management
Adolescent alcohol use and misuse
Enhancement of relationships
Influences of body image
Cannabis or other drug use
Food related issues
Maintenance of sexual/reproductive health

Achievement Standard 2.2: Evaluate Factors That Influence People’s Ability To Manage Change
This internally assessed standard required students to interview role models and explain how resiliency enables people to cope with life changes (either positive or negative).

Resilience
Personal, interpersonal and societal influences on resilience
Protective and risk factors of resilience
Managing change
Strategies use to cope and be resilient

Achievement Standard 2.3: Take Action To Enhance People’s Well-Being Within The School

This internally assessed standard will require students to develop a SMART goal that enhances Hauora of the students in our school. They will develop an action plan and then implement health promotion activities within our school and evaluate how effective their plan was through a written evaluation.

Health Promotion Models
Ottawa Charter
Action Planning
Teaching Techniques
Mental Health
Data Analysis

Achievement Standard 2.5: Analyse issues related to sexuality and gender to develop strategies for addressing the issues.

This is an internally assessed standard where students will examine a variety of influences on how gender and sexual identity are formed and expressed. They will review music videos, media and other influences that can impact how we understand gender and sexuality in a modern world.