- Standard 4: Students demonstrate effective interpersonal communication skills to enhance health.
Description
Interpersonal communication is an essential life skill critical for helping students establish, manage, and maintain healthy and safe behaviors.
Effective communication skills are necessary for building healthy relationships with family, friends, coworkers, and significant others as well as conveying personal health needs, beliefs, and priorities.
Interpersonal communication encompasses both what is said and how it is said along with the non-verbal messages sent through tone of voice, facial expressions, gestures, and body language.
This standard includes a series of interpersonal communication sub-skills including effective verbal and nonverbal cues for speaking and listening; identifying and communicating needs, wants, and feelings; using refusal skills to set boundaries; using negotiation and collaboration skills for managing and resolving conflict.
Teachers foster students’ confidence, self-efficacy, and skill competence in interpersonal communication when they:
- Discuss the importance and relevance of interpersonal communication skills that support healthy behaviors and well-being.
- Explain that students have the capability of learning how to communicate that support healthy behaviors.
- Present elements of interpersonal communication skills that support healthy behaviors.
- Model interpersonal communication skills that support healthy behaviors.
- Use real-life scenarios for practicing interpersonal communication skills that support healthy behaviors.
- Allow time and opportunity for students to practice interpersonal communication skills.
- Provide performance-based feedback and reinforcement for interpersonal communication skills.
4.2.1 Identify how effective interpersonal communication can benefit personal health and well-being.
4.2.2 Demonstrate effective listening skills and non-verbal communication skills (e.g., paying attention).
4.2.3 Demonstrate how to effectively identify and communicate needs, wants, and feelings in healthy ways.
4.2.4 Demonstrate how to tell a trusted adult when feeling threatened, harmed or unsafe.
4.2.5 Demonstrate refusal skills including firmly saying no and moving away from unhealthy situations, unsafe people and risky events.
4.2.6 Demonstrate how to communicate kindness, empathy, compassion, and care toward others.
4.2.7 Demonstrate how to ask for permission and appropriately respond (e.g., sharing, compromising, accepting “no”).
4.5.1 Explain how effective interpersonal communication can benefit personal health and well-being.
4.5.2 Demonstrate effective verbal and nonverbal interpersonal communication skills.
4.5.3 Demonstrate how to effectively identify and communicate needs, wants, and feelings in healthy ways.
4.5.4 Demonstrate how to ask for help to support personal health.
4.5.5 Demonstrate refusal skills to avoid or reduce health risks.
4.5.6 Demonstrate how to communicate kindness, empathy, compassion, and care toward others.
4.5.7 Identify ways to show respect for another person’s consent or non-consent (e.g., personal space).
4.5.8 Explain how to use collaboration and negotiation skills that support healthy behaviors and relationships.
4.5.9 Demonstrate healthy ways to manage and resolve conflict.
4.8.1 Examine how effective interpersonal communication can benefit personal health and well-being.
4.8.2 Demonstrate the use of verbal and nonverbal communication skills that enhance well-being.
4.8.3 Demonstrate how to effectively identify and communicate needs, wants, and feelings in healthy ways.
4.8.4 Demonstrate how to ask for assistance to improve personal health.
4.8.5 Demonstrate refusal skills to avoid or reduce health risks.
4.8.6 Demonstrate how to effectively communicate kindness, empathy, compassion, and care for others.
4.8.7 Demonstrate effective ways to show respect for another person’s consent or non-consent.
4.8.8 Demonstrate effective collaboration and negotiation skills that support healthy behaviors and relationships.
4.8.9 Demonstrate effective ways to manage and resolve conflict.
4.12.1 Analyze how effective interpersonal communication can benefit personal health and well-being.
4.12.2 Demonstrate the use of verbal and nonverbal communication skills that enhance health and well-being.
4.12.3 Demonstrate how to effectively identify and communicate needs, wants, and feelings in healthy ways.
4.12.4 Demonstrate asking for assistance to improve the health of self and others.
4.12.5 Demonstrate refusal skills to avoid or reduce health risks.
4.12.6 Demonstrate how to effectively communicate kindness, empathy, compassion, and care for others.
4.12.7 Demonstrate effective ways to show respect for another person’s consent or non-consent.
4.12.8 Demonstrate effective collaboration and negotiation skills that support healthy behaviors and relationships.
4.12.9 Demonstrate effective interpersonal communication strategies to prevent, manage, or resolve conflict.
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