Standards

Communication Skills

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Standard 4:

Demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.

K-2 Grade Band

  • HTL-K2.s4.01: Demonstrate healthy ways to express needs, wants, feelings and emotions.
  • HTL-K2.s4.02: Demonstrate listening skills to enhance health.
  • HTL-K2.s4.03: Demonstrate ways to respond when in an unwanted, threatening or dangerous situation.
  • HTL-K2.s4.04: Demonstrate ways to tell a trusted adult if threatened or harmed.

3-5 Grade Band

  • HTL-EL.s4.01: Demonstrate effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to enhance health.
  • HTL-EL.s4.02: Demonstrate refusal skills that avoid or reduce health risks.
  • HTL-EL.s4.03: Demonstrate nonviolent strategies to manage or resolve conflict.
  • HTL-EL.s4.04: Demonstrate how to ask for assistance to enhance personal health.

6th Grade

  • HTL-06.s4.01: Demonstrate effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to enhance health.
  • HTL-06.s4.02: Demonstrate refusal skills to avoid or reduce health risks
  • HTL-06.s4.03: Demonstrate negotiation skills to avoid or reduce health risks
  • HTL-06.s4.04: Demonstrate effective conflict management or resolution strategies.
  • HTL-06.s4.05: Demonstrate how to ask for assistance to enhance the health of self and others.

Middle School 

  • HTL-MS.s4.01: Demonstrate effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to enhance health.
  • HTL-MS.s4.02: Demonstrate refusal and negotiation skills to avoid or reduce health risks.
  • HTL-MS.s4.03: Demonstrate negotiation skills to avoid or reduce health risks.
  • HTL-MS.s4.04: Demonstrate collaboration skills to avoid or reduce health risks.
  • HTL-MS.s4.05: Demonstrate effective conflict management or resolution strategies.
  • HTL-MS.s4.06: Demonstrate how to ask for assistance to enhance the health of self and others.

High School 

  • HTL-HS.s4.01: Demonstrate active listening skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.
  • HTL-HS.s4.02: Apply effective verbal and nonverbal refusal skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.
  • HTL-HS.s4.03: Apply effective verbal and nonverbal negotiation skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.
  • HTL-HS.s4.04: Apply effective verbal and nonverbal collaboration skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.
  • HTL-HS.s4.05: Demonstrate strategies to prevent, manage, or resolve interpersonal conflicts without harming self or others.
  • HTL-HS.s4.06: Demonstrate how to ask for and offer assistance to enhance the health of self and others.