Course Syllabi (Health)

Course Syllabus

Course Title: Health

Teacher: Dwayne Yamato, Room 2, (909) 397-4400. I am available before and after school (usually 7:30-8:00 am and 3:00-3:30 pm). Please contact me if you wish to take advantage of this extra time for studying or to sit down and have a conference.

Class Website: http://mryamato.com

Textbook: Lifetime Health, Friedman, Stine, Whalen. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2005.  Edgenuity Health will be used as our primary resource.

Optional or Supplemental books/materials:

Additional material and supplemental resources will be provided via handouts and other media as needed.

Course Description:

This course is designed to increase student awareness of their health; of what distinguishes healthy behavior from high-risk behavior, and the ways in which health interacts with the community and environment. This course will encourage the student, to adopt positive health related behavior through skill building that includes decision-making, role modeling, critical analysis, and goal setting.

Course Objectives:

The student will be able to:

  • Promote personal health and prevent disease.
  • Practice positive mental and emotional skill building strategies, which will increase responsible behavior to family members and others.
  • Establish personal goals and create self-designed programs that promote health
    behaviors.
  • Understand the difference between environment and genetics in an individual’s
    growth and development.
  • Demonstrate and apply their knowledge of the infectious cycle and connect this
    knowledge to public health efforts (community agencies) to prevent disease.
  • Recognize the connection between low self-esteem, drug and alcohol abuse and teen
    pregnancy.
  • Assess individual nutritional habits and identify components of a balanced and healthy diet.
  • Understand and demonstrate the relationship between advertising techniques and
    negative health choices.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS AND GRADING POLICY
Attendance and Tardy Policy:

Because there is a direct relationship between student attendance and success in school, each day is important for the attending student. Ganesha High School’s policy on attendance as stated in our student handbook will be followed and enforced.

Assignment Policy and Assignment Grading Weight:

  • Class work: Daily class work will be assigned and turned in after completion of the lesson/activity. The student will be responsible in keeping a journal discussing his/her accomplishments in and out of class. It is the student’s responsibility to inform the instructor of any long-term absences. Weight: 35% of grade.
  • Homework: Periodically, homework will be assigned in the form of worksheets, papers, projects, etc. All homework will be turned-in during the next class meeting unless specified by the teacher. Weight: 25% of grade.
  • Tests and Quizzes: After each section (see Course Content, below), quizzes and tests will be administered. Weight: 25% of grade.
  • Participation: Weight: 15% of grade.
  • Make-up Work: Make-up work will be allowed for up to one week after the return of a student due to an absence. Other incidences will be decided by the discretion of the instructor. “Forgetting”, “losing” and the use of other similar excuses are not valid reasons for make-up.

CLASSROOM NORMS, PROCEDURES, RULES, AND CONSEQUENCE

In order to maintain a productive, positive, friendly, and respectful learning environment, the following rules have been established and will be enforced while online:

  • Respect yourself and others with your words and actions
  • Listen when others are speaking
  • Class time is for class activities only
  • Be prompt and prepared for class
  • Attend class as if you were attending school
  • Ask questions
  • Be prepared and participate
  • Use appropriate academic language
  • Be positive
  • Be responsible
  • Assist your classmates
  • Show your face while on Zoom and not just your avatar picture
  • Be dressed and in a good learning environment.

Classroom Rules:
Students will:

  • Eat and drink outside the classroom
  • Have all electronic devices off while in class
  • Be prepared and on time for class
  • Don’t wear hats
  • Respect people and classroom property
  • Use appropriate language
  • Wait for teacher dismissal

Discipline Consequences:  (Refer to Ganesha Student Handbook for additional details regarding discipline.)

  • First Offense-Warning and parent contact
  • Second Offense-Parent contact/detention
  • Third Offense-Referral

Grade Distribution:

  • A=100-90%
  • B=89-80%
  • C=79-70%
  • D=69-60%
  • F=59% and below

Course Content:

  • Making Healthy Choices
  • Mental Health
  • Social Health
  • Nutrition
  • Physical Fitness
  • The Human Life Cycle
  • Preventing Substance Abuse
  • Disease and Disorders
  • Safe Environment

Required Materials:

-Student Chromebook

-Paper

-Pen/Pencil

The student will be responsible for bringing their materials to class, all assignments, with quizzes and related tests completed in class.