How to use
the Health Throughout Life Learning Platform
The platform is designed as a toolbox where schools around Europe can find evidence informed knowledge, inspiration material and recommendations. The toolbox is divided into 4 main sections;
Concretely you have access to:
1) Health promoting school guide and checklists
In this section, you will find the health promoting school guide, which is a comprehensive implementation guide, that provides you with a good understanding of the health promoting school approach and the different concepts that it contains, such as the broad and positive health concept, the concept of participation and the whole school concept.
You will also have access to a comprehensive list of check lists that can help you to decide where you want to put your priorities as a health promoting school. The lists can also help you to monitor your process and keep focus on the things that you want to improve in your school.
All this material will provide you with a good understanding of what is the HPS approach and how you can work with it on a practical level. It will help you to establish a project organisation within your school and to design and agree about an internal innovation- and implementation process.
2) Practice Stories
Inspiration from peers is always helpful in a learning process, and in this section, you will find stories from all the 15 pilot schools that participated in the SHE4AHA project. You can among other things read about how schools have worked with healthy food, physically active learning, mindfulness or collaboration with parents as concrete steps to become health promoting schools.
These examples can be used as inspiration material, by reading about or listening to what other schools have done to kickstart and implement concrete pilot projects. In each good practice example, a short list of recommendations is listed, which can help you in the practical implementation.
3) Teacher Training Material
Becoming a health promoting school is not something that happens over night. It can take years and is a continuous process where the school is always trying to become a better and healthier school. In this section you will find a comprehensive set of power point presentations that can be used as training material towards school managers and schoolteachers. An important step towards becoming a health promoting school, is among other things, that you as a school community has the same understanding of e.g. health, social inclusion and participation. This material can help you to understand and to inspire you to have an internal dialogue, on which you can build your common understanding.
4) Health Promoting School Approach
When you click on this section you will be directed to the website for the Schools for Health in Europe Network (SHE Network), who was the initiating partner behind the SHE4AHA project.
All the material on the platform is based on many years of research among researchers in the SHE Network, as well as practical experiences from other schools that have worked to become health promoting schools, among these the 15 schools that participated as pilot schools in the SHE4AHA project.
5) Policy and Implementation Recommendations
Based on all the knowledge and experiences from the SHE4AHA project a set of concrete policy and implementation recommendations have been developed. These recommendations are presented on different levels being relevant for the implementation of the health promoting school approach. The levels are the following;
- School level
- Local school community level
- Within existing initiatives on regional and national level
- European level
We wish you good reading and the best of luck to create your own health promoting school.
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