Monticello High School Health Curriculum

Health Education Course Syllabus 2023-2024

The goal of the High School Health and Wellness Course is to empower students to develop and acquire knowledge, skills and attitude so that they may develop and maintain lifelong health and wellness. This will include selected topics, which are included but not limited to, in the following areas (Health is a NYS graduation requirement): 

  • Violence and Mental Wellness
    o Communication  
            o Mental Health 
            o Bullying 
            o Domestic Violence 
    • Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs 
    • Pregnancy, HIV/AIDS and Other STD’s and Parenting Education 

 

Teacher Information: 

Mrs. K. Alvarez 
Health Education Teacher 
Monticello High School 

RJK/MHS Health & PE Department Instructional Lead Grades 6-12 

Co-Graduation Coordinator 

kalvarez@k12mcsd.net 

Student Expectations: 

For students to be successful they must: 
1. Attend all classes 
2. Come to class prepared 
3. Follow school and TEAMS/classroom rules 
4. Actively participate in class 
5. Complete all required assignments 
6. All assignments are found and submitted on Teams, no handwritten assignments will be accepted, all assignments must be typed. 

Materials: 

Computer or Tablet with a keyboard. All students will be offered a district issued device, if you choose to use your own device and not take a district device, please note that I cannot help you troubleshoot, nor can I guarantee that all programs we use will work. A cell phone is not an acceptable device to complete assignments. 

Microsoft TEAMS 

All assignments and resources are found on TEAMS. You must submit all assignments electronically; NO assignments will be accepted on paper or written out and then submitted by picture! All assignments must be typed! Please complete all assignments and upload the document, please do not submit SharePoint links as they don’t open properly. Please do not screenshot your assignments either.  Students should always check their feedback on TEAMS when it comes to assignments.  There may be instances where you are asked to fix something and then resubmit it.  If you are not asked to resubmit an assignment, your resubmission will not be graded (there is more information below on resubmissions and assignments).  If students are absent or away for any reason, they should check their TEAMS for assignments, and materials to stay current in class. 
 
Your grade on TEAMS does not always reflect the 0’s on SchoolTool. For your current overall grade, please see SchoolTool, for your grade on a specific assignment, you may look at TEAMS.  Assignments will not be returned to students until the closed date; however, they will be graded, and the grade will be reflected in SchoolTool prior to the assignment being returned to the student. 
 
Any assignment that is plagiarized will receive an automatic 0, and it cannot be made up. Plagiarism will not be tolerated. All assignments will be linked to Turn It In, which checks the internet when an assignment is submitted. If you are taking information off the Internet, you must cite your source in APA format. If you don’t know how to do that, you may use the website www.mybib.com to help you. Make sure that you select APA format and then the type of source in which you used to get your information (book, website, online magazine, etc.). 
 
All late assignments will result in up to a deduction of 25%, for up to 4 days. After 5 days, the assignment may close, and there will be no more submissions. There will be no resubmissions of assignments. If a student would like to “re-submit” an assignment as they do not like their grade, arrangements for an alternate/replacement assignment will be given. No assignment that is just resubmitted will be accepted.  This will be denoted in SchoolTool by an attribute (i.e., L1, L2, L3, etc.).  A 0 will be added to the gradebook after the assignment due date has passed and the student has not completed the assignment.  Once the assignment has been turned in, it will be graded and the grade will be updated. 
 
During each marking period, all students will be given an opportunity to replace a 0 or failing grade that they received on an assignment by completing a replacement assignment.  Replacement assignments will not be accepted late.  Students will be able to choose any assignment during the marking period that they earned a zero or failing grade on.  Students will be asked to message me to let me know which assignment they would like to replace after completing the replacement assignment.  If they do not tell me which assignment they would like to replace, I will just choose the first assignment that I see.  

Emails, Chat, General Channel on TEAMS and ParentSquare: 

Students will receive reminders regarding class work, the closure of assignments, or anything important information for the class in the general channel on TEAMS. Students can also message me with questions. However, if a message is sent outside of the school day, it will be answered the following school day. If there is an emergency, or you feel that you are going to hurt yourself or someone else, please reach out immediately, and we will help you. Please DO NOT hesitate to reach out if you are struggling. 
 
Weekly family emails will be sent out at the beginning of each week to keep students and families informed.  They are to let everyone know what the plan is for the week, what assignments we plan to work on, what material we will be going over, assignments due dates and gradebook updates.  Grading is always occurring, and grades get updated daily, so they may change day to day.  If you do not have a SchoolTool Parent Portal account, if you go to www.monticelloschools.net there are directions on how to create one when you click on SchoolTool/Parent Portal.  Email is the easiest way to reach me throughout the day.  If you are looking to chat on the phone, please email me, and we can figure out a time that works for both of us to speak on the phone.  You can also message me on ParentSquare as well if you have any questions.  I can also look in to sending a ParentSquare message weekly versus an email if anyone thinks that would be better. 
 
Communication is key! I cannot help you if I don’t know what is going on. It is imperative that if you are having internet issues, device issues, turn in issues, struggling to keep up, didn’t understand something, etc. that you reach out and let me know.  Messages can also be sent on ParentSquare, so that is another way to get ahold of me throughout the school day.