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Angela Kladis (Akladis)
Junior Member
Username: Akladis
Post Number: 5
Registered: 2-2010
| | Posted on Thursday, March 04, 2010 - 3:30 pm: |       |
How often would a school have to update their health curriculum?
The school that I am currently student teaching at hasn't updated their curriculum for over 7 years. |
J Hampton (Jjlhampton)
Junior Member
Username: Jjlhampton
Post Number: 18
Registered: 1-2008
| | Posted on Friday, March 05, 2010 - 9:31 am: | |
It all comes down to money Angela and it is not uncommon for it to go 10 years. The district I am at just updated ours last year. Prior to that the last time we had updated curriculum was 1998. So it had been 11 years. |
Penny Bush (Epcnbush)
Junior Member
Username: Epcnbush
Post Number: 3
Registered: 3-2010
| | Posted on Monday, March 29, 2010 - 5:27 am: | |
We technically update our curriculum every year at the high school. We have “common planning time” once a week to collaborate within our department. In the 15 years that I have been teaching we have looked at our health curriculum 3-4 times. I am fortunate that the middle school and high school teachers of Health really want to a quality program so we get together on our own. This year is the first time that we have actually been provided 3 “release days” to work on it as a district (K-12.) |
Dana Menendez (Dmenendez)
New member
Username: Dmenendez
Post Number: 1
Registered: 5-2010
| | Posted on Monday, May 24, 2010 - 8:18 am: | |
Our health curriculum is being cut in our school because it's part of the science curriculum (K-5 building)and there is no time for science anymore due to the HUGE blocks of time for literacy and math. As PE teachers we are looking at adding nutrition into our curriculum to help out the situation. |
Linda Knutson (Lknut)
New member
Username: Lknut
Post Number: 1
Registered: 6-2010
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 08, 2010 - 11:02 am: | |
We are in the process of updating, but have not done so since 1996. It has taken us about 7 years to finally convince our administration it is important to stay current for our students. |
Shannon Ramps (Sramps3)
Junior Member
Username: Sramps3
Post Number: 4
Registered: 9-2010
| | Posted on Friday, October 22, 2010 - 7:07 am: | |
Our school is in the process of updating our curriculum now. We began the process last year and hope to finish it this year. I am not sure how long it had been before that that it was updated.
Our textbooks are another story! I have new 8th grade textbooks but our 6th and 7th grade books are 10+ years olds. The high school just got new texts this year! I use a lot of information from online sources to make sure the lesson information is updated! |
Kris Angerthal (Kangerthal)
Junior Member
Username: Kangerthal
Post Number: 3
Registered: 11-2010
| | Posted on Thursday, November 18, 2010 - 2:31 am: | |
I am positive at my children's school they are not getting the recommended health standards Virginia states they should be having. There just is no time and that is unfortunate. I am wondering how hard it would be for the teachers to sit down at the beginning of the year and "divide out" who is teaching what health standard? meaning the science, pe, nurse, classroom, etc could each take a few and it could get covered. |
Ginger Epstein (Ginger)
New member
Username: Ginger
Post Number: 1
Registered: 4-2011
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 12, 2011 - 8:52 am: | |
In our district of @ 2000 students, there are only two health educators, myself and the high school. We wrote our curriculum @10 yrs ago, then had a committee that included science to work on it over one summer 5 yrs ago. Sicne then we have done nothing new. We were conscientious about mapping the information around concepts, topics and skills rather than data. As we all know the the disease prevention units and ATOD units change rapidly with time. We found it best to stay general about these units so our curriclum guide would have greater longevity. |
