Abstract
Objective: Develop and validate health education guidelines for high school students. Methods: This is a methodological study of elaboration and validation. The first stage consisted of the elaboration of health education guidelines for high school at the Federal Institute of Education of Sertão Pernambucano. The second consisted of the validation of the guidelines by 15 judges to verify the level of agreement of the statements. And the third, consisted of the semantic validation of the guidelines. The Delphi method was used for validation. Results: in the first stage of the study, 79 items were constructed, distributed over nine axes. In the content validation stage, 45 of these items, distributed in eight axes, were validated by the judges. The Oral Health Axis has not been validated. At this stage, the instrument of Health Education Guidelines for High School was validated with 91% agreement by law experts. In the last stage of semantic validation, the target population analyzes the semantic aspects of the instrument and is validated with a 96% consensus. Conclusion: This instrument can make the practices and actions of health professionals at Federal Institutes of Education, in Health Education planning, safer and scientifically based.