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HEALTH
EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
Department
Mission Statement
Health education is described as instruction in
understandings, attitudes and behavior in regard to the several
dimensions of health. Students literate  in
health education will acquire the knowledge, skills and ability
to maintain and enhance personal health, create and
maintain safe environments, and manage personal and community
resources. The learning will continue outside of the classroom
as conflict resolution, effective communication, goal setting,
decision making, are covered through an interactive curriculum.
Students will have multiple opportunities to improve their
own knowledge and skills and personally apply them to relevant
health situations. Health education will provide authentic
learning experiences and personal applications of health knowledge
and skills.
Goals
• All students are safe, healthy and academically successful.
• All health education students achieve or exceed the
New York State and National Learning Standards for Health
Education.
• Students will achieve health literacy.
• To encourage sound attitudes towards good health and
wellness.
• Students will acquire valid reliable scientific health
knowledge and use that knowledge in a health promoting manner.
Chairman’s Statement and Contact Information:
Welcome to Health Education. Health Education
is a course that introduces students to the various conceptual
areas of health and wellness. We will explore many topics
and the factors that will influence their health and wellness,
so that students can make knowledge–based health literate
decisions that will enhance their lives.
Lori
Hewlett,Chairperson for Secondary Health Education
Office: Sequoya Middle School
750 Waverly Avenue
Holtsville, New York 11742
(631) 207-7140
Email: lhewlett@sachem.edu
Departmental Staff List:
Lori Hewlett, Chairperson
Patricia Broderick
Matthew Brisson
Carla Wasnick
Kate Connors
2008-2009 Workbook
Healthy websites:
Board of Education Health Policy
The
Board of Education believes that health is a unified concept
and that it must be approached with consideration of the total
human being and the complexity of forces that affect health
behavior. The Board is concerned with the health attitudes
and behavior of the individual, the family and the community,
and with health behavior, generally.
The Board also believes that the only effective
way in which the district can fulfill its responsibility for
meeting the health needs of youth is through a comprehensive
program of health education in grades K-12. Such a program
will establish the organizational framework for meeting the
health needs, interests, and problems of students as well
as preparing them for their role as adults. The district will
comply with the laws and regulations which require health
education instruction in the schools.
The district's health education curriculum is
designed to accomplish three basic aims:
1. to develop wholesome health skills and practices;
2. to encourage sound attitudes towards good health
and wellness; and
3. to acquire up-to-date and scientific health
knowledge.
Certified teachers of health education will be
hired to implement the secondary health education program
in district schools.
In recognition of the parent’s options,
the Board, subject to the regulations of the state Board of
Regents, shall excuse a student from required study of AIDS
prevention lessons and the family living health curriculum
component, if such study will be conducted at home.
Ref: Education Law §§804; 804-a
8 NYCRR §§135.3; 135.6
Adoption date: January 20, 1998
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