Illinois H'B' 2547 Critical Health Problems

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Illinois H.B. 2547 Critical Health Problems
Comprehensive Health Education Act 1970

• Requires that health education be taught in

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H.B. 2547

• Elementary Specific time requirements purposely
  avoided. Schools are expected to have a well
  developed plan to insure the inclusion of health
  curricula.

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H.B. 2547

• Secondary Minimal time allocation is to be not
  less than one semester hour or its equivalency
  during middle school (6,7,8) or junior high
  school (7,8,9) AND Not less than one semester
  hour or its equivalency of a more advanced
  curriculum during high school (grades 9-12 or
  grades 10-12).
• State mandated requirement for high school
  graduation.

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Administrative Approaches to Satisfying the
Health Education Mandate

• Direct Teaching
• Integrated Teaching
• Correlated
• Incidental Approach

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Direct Teaching

• Separate, formal health education class.

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Integrated Teaching (Unsystematic)

• Incorporating health education into other subject
  areas (e.g. Biology reproduction Social
  Studies world nutrition needs, etc.)

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Correlated (Systematic)

• Teaching health using a health theme across all
  courses (e.g. Theme population Social Studies
  food shortage Science overpopulation
  family planning Math geometric equations
  showing population growth.)

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Incidental Approach

• The teachable moment.
• When the student is ready, the teacher will
  appear.

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What specific topics MUST you cover?

• The Illinois School Code specifies that the
  following major content areas shall be included
  within the comprehensive health education
  curricula in all state elementary and secondary
  public schools. Specific topics that are state
  mandated to be included within the curriculum are
  identified by grade level (E Elementaryk-5,
  MMiddle School6-8, HS 9-12 and with an
  asterisk ().

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Illinois School Code

• Human Growth and Development (E, M, HS)
• Human Ecology and Health (M, HS)
• Nutrition (E, M, HS)
• Prevention and Control of Disease/6-12, Sex
  ed./5-12, Drug ed.
• Including instruction in grades 6-12 on the
  prevention, transmission, and spread of AIDS
  (HIV) in sex education. (E,M,HS)
• Including instruction in grades 5-12 on the
  prevention, transmission, and spread of AIDS
  (HIV) in drug education. (E, M, HS)

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Illinois School Code (cont.)

• Mental Health and Illness/k-12 permissive/7-12,
  Staff In-Service.
• Curriculum for reduction of self destructive
  behavior (suicide). Optional for grades k-12
  permissive. E, M, HS
• Adolescent and teen suicide detection and
  intervention training (mandated for school
  guidance counselors, teachers, and other school
  personnel who work with students in grades 7-12
  in-service.) HS
• Personal Health Habits (M, HS)

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Illinois School Code (cont.)

• The emotional, psychological, physiological,
  hygienic and social responsibilities of family
  life, including sexual abstinence until
  marriage/Sec. 7-12, JH/6-12 MS. M, HS

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Illinois School Code (cont.)

• Alcohol and Drug use and abuse/k-12,
  Annually/5-12, Legal Med. K-8, Prevention
  Avoidance/7-12, Steroid Abuse Ed./5-12,
  HIV-AIDS Ed./k-12, Red Ribbon Just Say No
  Day.
• Including classroom instruction in grades 5-12
  concerning physical and legal effects and
  ramifications of drug and substance abuse
  including medical and legal ramifications of
  alcohol, drug and tobacco use and abuse during
  pregnancy. M, HS

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Alcohol and drug use and abuse (cont.)

• Instruction, study, and discussion in grades k-8
  of effective methods for the prevention and
  avoidance of drug and substance abuse. M, HS
• Steroid abuse education mandate in grades 7-12.
  Such instruction shall emphasize that the use of
  anabolic steroids presents a serious health
  hazard to persons who use steroids to enhance
  athletic performance or physical development. M,
  HS

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Alcohol and drug use and abuse (cont.)

• Instruction in grades 5-12 on the prevention,
  transmission, and spread of AIDS (HIV) in drug
  education. E, M, HS
• All schools, k-12, must recognize Red Ribbon Day,
  Just Say No Day in October.
• No pupil shall be required to take or
  participate in any class or course on AIDS
  instruction or family life (and sex education) if
  the pupils parent or guardian submits WRITTEN
  OBJECTION thereto, and refusal to take or
  participate in such course or program shall not
  be reason for suspension or expulsion of such
  person.

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Illinois School Code (cont.)

• Tobacco (E,M,HS)
• Dental Health (E,M)
• Public and Environmental Health (Conservation
  Ed., no specific time allotment). (M,HS)
• Safety Education and Disaster Survival/1-8,
  Annually for at least one class period each week
  or its equivalency/k-8, Annual instruction about
  danger and avoidance of abduction/4-12, Violence
  prevention and Conflict Resolution. E,M, HS

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Safety Ed. And Disaster Survival (cont).

• In every public school there shall be
  instruction, study and discussion of effective
  methods by which pupils may recognize the danger
  of and avoidance of abduction. Mandated k-8
  annually. E, M
• Protective eye devices shall be provided to and
  worn by all student, teachers, and visitors when
  participating in or observing dangerous
  vocational arts and chemical-physical courses of
  laboratories. (E, M, HS)
• Violence prevention and conflict resolution must
  be address in grades 4-12. (E, M, HS)

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Illinois School Code (cont.)

• 13. Consumer Health/8-12, minimum of 9 weeks
  required. M, HS
• 14. Inclusion of the teaching of Illinois (Body)
  Donations and Transplantation at the secondary
  level. M, HS)