Health Education Academic Courses

Students complete one of the following sequences:
 

Health Education (1 credit total required for graduation)

CTECS Health Education courses are designed to support and guide students' personal and academic achievement through the development of skills needed to:

• Live a healthy and balanced lifestyle.

• Access, evaluate, and use information from various sources to achieve overall health and well-being.

• Comprehend concepts related to health and fitness and implement realistic plans for lifelong healthy and balanced living.

• Make plans and take actions that lead to healthy and balanced living for themselves and for the world around them.
 

The CTECS Health Education curriculum is a standards-based program that assists CTECS students in understanding that health is a lifelong responsibility by analyzing individual risk factors and health decisions that promote health and prevent disease.

Each CTECS Health Education course is designed to provide CTECS students with the basis for continued methods of developing knowledge, concepts, skills, behaviors, and attitudes related to health and well-being.

All CTECS Health Education courses include medically accurate, developmentally and culturally appropriate content in a planned, sequential, comprehensive health education curriculum aligned with the Connecticut State Department of Education's Healthy and Balanced Living Curriculum Framework, which includes:

• Nutrition

• Injury Prevention

• Wellness

• Substance Abuse Prevention

• Disease Prevention

• Mental Health

• Fitness

• Sexual Health Education

The CTECS Health Education curriculum also includes Connecticut General Statutes (CGS) required content on Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs (10-19a), Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (10-19b), and Sexual Health Education (10-16f).