Health education is necessary for the middle school students. however, it is just described in 7th curriculum revision edition about middle school, While the middle school student´s health education isn´t really operated in curriculum of school.
Therefore this research has been attempted to measure on the perception, experience and needs for health education by 811 respondents; 611 students and 200 teachers of middle school in Seoul.
1. For the acknowledge of health, 85.996 students thought that they´re in a good health. hut for the health behavior, 19.5% of students had a unbalanced diet, 12.9% of smoking, 35.0% of drinking and 33% of stimulant experience, there was a significant difference in smoking, drinking. stimulant experience, and drug abuse of students on school year.
2. 86.5% of students had taken health education class, the majority(83.7%) was by health educator or school nurse, in the acknowledge of health education Sex education is the highest(86.8%). 62.7% of students and 95.9% teachers responded positively to the needs of health education, 43.3% students and 62.1% teachers asked 1 hour a week for a health education class. 85.2% of teachers answered that the methods and the evaluations of health education were not satisfactory.
3. The ideal areas of health education showed differences in students and teachers.; The best ideal area of health education for students were Mental health, Health- habit, Family sex education, Nutrition growth and development in sequence.; there were difference in 6th later sequence on sex.; The best for teachers were Drug abuse, Environmental health and Mental health.;
4. The teaching methods in health education was ´lecture´ and ´discussion´ in order, teaching methods which they wanted to improve were ´discussion´ and ´research´ in each area.; Evaluation-methods of teachers was as followings ´objective - subjective-mixed test´ and ´objective-test´. 81.6% answered unsatisfactory about the methods and evaluation-methods
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