Health for Expectant Parents   (#0800390)

General Notes

The purpose of this course is to develop knowledge and skills that promote a healthy baby, mother, and family. Emphasis is placed on human reproduction, fetal growth and development, physical changes during pregnancy, health care and nutrition for the expectant mother, the birth process, decision making, and family planning.

The content should include, but is not limited to, the following:

• Human reproduction
• Stages of fetal development
• Stages of physical, social, cognitive, and emotional development of an infant
• Physical and emotional development and care of expectant mother
• Birth process
• Pre and post natal care
• Disease prevention and control of common illnesses affecting mother and fetus
• Healthy lifestyle of family
• Family planning and care giving
• Parenting skills including prevention of child abuse, neglect, and infant mortality
• Family relationships including parental rights and responsibilities
• Communication, interpersonal and coping skills
• Responsible decision-making and goal-setting
• Health-related community resources
• Consumer skills

Instructional Practices

Teaching from a well-written, grade-level textbook enhances students' content area knowledge and also strengthens their ability to comprehend longer, complex reading passages on any topic for any reason. Using the following instructional practices also helps student learning:

1. Reading assignments from longer text passages as well as shorter ones when text is extremely complex.
2. Making close reading and rereading of texts central to lessons.
3. Asking high-level, text-specific questions and requiring high-level, complex tasks and assignments.
4. Requiring students to support answers with evidence from the text.
5. Providing extensive text-based research and writing opportunities (claims and evidence).

Any student whose parent makes written request to the school principal shall be exempted from the teaching of reproductive health or any disease, including HIV/AIDS, its symptoms, development, and treatment. A student so exempted may not be penalized by reason of that exemption.

Florida’s Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking (B.E.S.T.) Standards
This course includes Florida’s B.E.S.T. ELA Expectations (EE) and Mathematical Thinking and Reasoning Standards (MTRs) for students. Florida educators should intentionally embed these standards within the content and their instruction as applicable. For guidance on the implementation of the EEs and MTRs, please visit https://www.cpalms.org/Standards/BEST_Standards.aspx and select the appropriate B.E.S.T. Standards package.

English Language Development ELD Standards Special Notes Section:
Teachers are required to provide listening, speaking, reading and writing instruction that allows English language learners (ELL) to communicate for social and instructional purposes within the school setting. For the given level of English language proficiency and with visual, graphic, or interactive support, students will interact with grade level words, expressions, sentences and discourse to process or produce language necessary for academic success. The ELD standard should specify a relevant content area concept or topic of study chosen by curriculum developers and teachers which maximizes an ELL’s need for communication and social skills. To access an ELL supporting document which delineates performance definitions and descriptors, please click on the following link: https://cpalmsmediaprod.blob.core.windows.net/uploads/docs/standards/eld/si.pdf