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 Standards:: 5. Students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health.
Student Performance Descriptions:
As a result of health instruction, students will:
1. Demonstrate skills for communicating effectively with family, peers and others. 2. Analyze how interpersonal communication affects relationships. 3. Demonstrate healthy ways to express needs, wants and feelings. 4. Demonstrate ways to communicate care, consideration and respect of self and others. 5. Demonstrate strategies for solving interpersonal conflicts without harming self or others. 6. Demonstrate refusal, negotiation and collaboration skills needed to avoid potentially-harmful situations. 7. Analyze the possible causes of conflict in schools, families and communities. 8. Demonstrate healthy strategies used to prevent conflict.