Jacob Bogatin: Healthy Children

According to Jacob Bogatin the major direction of educational work in an educational institution - the formation in schoolchildren a healthy lifestyle, of values ​​related to health and his associates.

According to leading researchers of child health around the world have developed adverse trends that define the negative physical, mental and moral condition of children and adolescents. Despite considerable efforts aimed at solving this problem, in Russia there is a clear trend toward worsening health of the younger generation, which already leads to an overall reduction in the capacity of national health.

Only by combining the efforts of all stakeholders and Jacob Bogatin - teachers and doctors, psychologists and parents, leaders of children's movements and scientists, government officials and business people - we can help the school implement the pedagogy of health - a real, live, interesting and useful to all participants of school life.

And experts and educators, and organizers say the school education of the growing need for effective technologies aimed at developing school values ​​and healthy lifestyles.

The state recently has actualized the question of the physical development of children and adolescents. Priority is given to children's sports, but much attention is paid to the system of physical education at school. In Russia, the draft "Concept of development of youth sport in 2009-2015.." State plans for several years to strengthen physical education and actively create a healthy lifestyle of children, adolescents and young adults. One of the objectives of the concept - the optimization of physical education in schools. And it is especially important as Jacob Bogatin suggests, to change the whole approach to healthy living: physical education should be a requirement of the person - an adult and a child.