Skyline High School Course Expectations for Health
Career and Technical Education Department
Instructor: Ms. Smersh Classroom/Office: 1412
www.smershclass.com
I. Introduction
Hello and welcome to Health! I am Ms. Smersh, the Family and Consumer Sciences teacher here at Skyline High School. This semester I will be teaching Health, Child Development, and Teaching Academy. I earned my Bachelors in Human Development, Family and Consumer Sciences Education from Washington State University. Go Cougs! When I am not teaching I love to get outdoors, play with my two adorable cats, or spend time with family. I am very excited to be back at Skyline and look forward to a great year!
II. Course Description
This semester class will focus on making choices for a healthy lifestyle as well as preparing you to become leaders. Topics include decision making, nutrition, reproduction, heredity, communicable and non-communicable diseases, human sexuality and development, CPR/First Aid, stress management, substance use and abuse, media analysis, conflict resolution, and goal setting. Students will be expected to apply practical health information to their everyday lives.
III. Tech Prep College Connections Program
This course is Tech Prep College Connections approved and articulated with Bellevue College and Lake Washington Technical. Students who demonstrate proficiency of the college course competencies with a ‘B’ (3.0) or better grade, may be eligible to earn college credit through the Tech Prep program. During the year all of the college competencies will be covered in class.Students must also become First Aid certified outside of the classroom. There will be two opportunities that I will offer but students may do so anytime outside of class throughout the semester. Students must register online using the statewide enrollment and reporting system http://sers.techprepwa.org and also are required to pay a non-refundable $46 annual consortium fee to earn college credit through the Tech Prep College Connections program (http://pay.techprepcc.org). Students MUST register for Tech Prep college credit while they are enrolled in the high school course.
Questions? Contact the Tech Prep College Connections office at: or 425-564-6158. Please also visit the Tech Prep CC website at: www.techprepcc.org.
IV. Grading Criteria
93% - 100% A Assignments 30%
90% - 92% A- Assessments/Projects 30%
87% - 89% B+ Leadership 20%
83% - 86% B Employability Skills 10%
80% - 82% B- Final Exam 10%
77% - 79% C+
73% - 76% C
70% - 72% C-
67% - 69% D+
60% - 66% D
Below 60% F
*Unexcused late work is not acceptable. Make up work is only acceptable for students with an excused absence and it is the student’s responsibility.
V. Attendance
It is very important that students and parents understand how crucial attendance is to a successful classroom experience. This class is designed to create learning activities in class and hence not all work or classroom activities can be replicated. As a result, not all points can be made up regardless of whether an absence is excused or not. Furthermore, on classroom presentation days when a student is scheduled to present they must contact Ms. Smersh via email before the start of school in order to receive credit and reschedule the presentation. If they have an unexcused absence on the day of a test/quiz/presentation day it will not be able to be made up.
VI. Leadership
Leadership activities will be integrated with opportunities for personal growth, improved health, helping out others, group benefit, travel, community impact, classroom up-keep and competition.
Building Leadership through Passion Project: Students will have the opportunity to work on and create a passion project this semester. Passion project is based on a business practice used in many companies such as Google where individuals spend approximately 20% of their work time on a project of their choosing related to the company’s goals. Students are to work on whatever project they would like during the 20% as long as it has to do with health in some way. Through this project, students will take ownership of their own learning. The process includes having a driving question, extensive research, sharing the progress and potential solution. Students are graded on the process, not the finished product and will be weighted in the Employability Skills category.
VII. Textbook
Health. Pruitt, Allegrante, Prothrow-Stith, 2014 – Pearson Prentice Hall Publishing
VIII. Materials
Students will need a 3 ring binder or a section in their binder to keep course documents in their possession and organized. Everyday students should also bring a pencil and lined paper to class.
IX. Plagiarism/Cheating
Plagiarism, the act of using the work of another writer without citation, intending the reader to believe that it is your own work, is a serious violation of academic conduct. Cheating during exams, obtaining help from other students during tests/projects, or copying homework are all serious violations of academic conduct. All will results in failing the assignment and/or course followed by additional disciplinary actions.
X. Classroom Rules
· BE HERE-students are expected to show up seated in their assigned seat on time.
· BE PREPARED-students need to come prepared with a pen/pencil to write with, completed homework, etc. Food and drinks are allowed in class on the basis that students clean up after themselves. There should be no cell phones and/or headphones present during the class unless the teacher instructs for the use of them and the teacher has the right to hold cell phones and/or headphones to the end of the class period if the student doesn’t put it away.
· BE NICE-students are to treat the teacher and others with respect and courtesy.
· BE INVOLVED-students are to engage in classroom discussions, activities, and projects.
XI. Instructor Information
My office hours are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday from 7:15-7:25am / 2:16-2:45pm and Wednesdays from 9:45-9:55am/3:35-4:05pm in room 1412, or by appointment. I can also be reached on my office phone at (425) 837-7859. Please feel free to contact me with your concerns and/or questions. My preferred method of contact is via e-mail at I am always happy to talk to parents individually about questions or concerns they may have about their student’s performance in this class or about the content of the course.
Please sign and return this lower portion of the form to the teacher by Tuesday September 13, 2016
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Career and Technical Education Department
Health – Smersh – Fall 2016