M/J Health 3 & Career Planning   (#0800025)

General Notes

The purpose of this course is to provide students with the opportunity to gain the knowledge and skills necessary to become health literate and practice responsible behaviors to become healthy, productive citizens. This comprehensive course focuses on the development of positive life-long knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors, which promote an active and healthy lifestyle.

The content should include, but is not limited to:†

• Mental and emotional health (personal health care, screenings, counseling, negotiation skills, bullying, coping skills and depression)
• Prevention and control of disease (non-communicable, sexually transmitted diseases, STDs, and HIV/AIDS)
• Consumer health (risk reduction behaviors, policies/laws, medical resources, and conflict resolution)
• Family life (cultures, daily routines and rules)
• Personal health (risk reduction behaviors, communication skills, social relationships, wellness, and reproductive health)
• Nutrition (weight management, fitness plan, eating disorders, and BMI)
• Internet safety (security, threats, media, cyber-bullying parental controls, and monitoring)
• Injury prevention and safety (rules, bullying, water safety, weapons safety, and first aid/CPR/AED)
• Substance use and abuse (harmful effects of alcohol, tobacco, other drugs, and over-the-counter drugs)
• Community health (local health organizations, technology, resources, and services)
• Environmental health (adverse health effects, chemicals toxins and pollutants)
• Consumer health (advertising, media influence, products and services)†
• Teen dating violence (dating, media, abuse and violence)

Special Notes - 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.†

STUDENTS WILL:

1.0 Describe the influences that societal, economic, and technological changes have on employment trends and future training.

2.0 Develop skills to locate, evaluate, and interpret career information.

3.0 Identify and demonstrate processes for making short and long term goals.

4.0 Demonstrate employability skills such as working in a group, problem-solving and organizational skills, and the importance of entrepreneurship.

5.0 Understand the relationship between educational achievement and career choices/postsecondary options.

6.0 Identify a career cluster and related pathways through an interest assessment that match career and education goals.

7.0 Develop a career and education plan that includes short and long-term goals, high school program of study, and postsecondary/career goals.

8.0 Demonstrate knowledge of technology and its application in career fields/clusters.

Per section 1003.4156, Florida Statutes, the Career and Education Planning course must result in a completed personalized academic and career plan for the student; must emphasize the importance of entrepreneurship skills; must emphasize technology or the application of technology in career fields; and, beginning in the 2014-2015 academic year, must provide information from the Department of Economic Opportunityís economic security report as described in section 445.07, Florida Statutes. For additional information on the Middle School Career and Education Planning course, go to https://www.fldoe.org/workforce/ced/.