Health Curriculum Learning Outcomes
Violence Prevention
Kindergarten – Grade Five
The students will be able to:
1. Explain different types of violence: Emotional, psychological, physical, and sexual.
2. Describe some of the ways that young children can be intentionally helpful and intentionally hurtful to one another.
3. Identify factors that contribute to both violent and nonviolent attitudes.
4. Differentiate between one’s rights and those of others, and discuss how to resolve conflicts.
5. Identify helping resources regarding violence in the school and community, such as counselors, neighbors, law enforcement, and members of faith-based groups.
Grades Six – Eight
The students will be able to:
- Identify reasons why some people choose to join groups such as cliques and gangs, and understand how they undermine community and lead to violence.
- Demonstrate skills for refusal, negotiation, and collaboration to avoid potentially harmful situations in personal, work, and community relationships.
- Identify the social and emotional consequences of harassment (for example, gender, racial, handicap, sexual in nature, etc.).
- Define intolerance and explain how it can contribute to violence.
- Describe the power of the individual in reducing violence and identify situations where individuals can become active about violence prevention.
- Demonstrate effective communication, negotiation, and conflict resolution for resolving potentially violent conflicts.
- Define abusive relationships.
- Explain the signs of abuse in relationships, including emotional abuse and physical assault, and identify the available resources in schools and the local community, such as counselors, law enforcement, and faith-based groups, Catholic Social Services, and others.
Grades Nine – Twelve
The students will be able to:
1. Identify shared community and societal beliefs that underlie violence.
2. Describe the relationship between stress and violence.
3. Identify the mental health issues and legal consequences of harassment.
4. Describe how one’s attitude can lead to violent behaviors or make one susceptible to violence.
5. Explain why some people admire others who gain social status through violence.
6. Discuss how the media and the culture glorify violence, and how it perpetuates further violence.
7. Identify those character traits that are connected with peaceful living in society, such as respectfulness, tolerance, honesty, self-discipline, kindness, and empathy.
8. Describe the responsibility of the family in teaching children non-violent attitudes and conduct.
9. Identify the health consequences of domestic violence, child abuse, rape, and other forms of violence and discuss strategies to deal with as well as prevent them.
Revised 8/20/04