• Monroe Township Health Education 

    1.  Health Triangle

       a. Physical Health
       b. Mental Health
       c. Social Health 
     
    2. Influences on Health
       a. Heredity
       b. Environment
       c. Attitude
       d. behavior
       e. Media/technology 
     
    3. Identifying Health Risks
       a. Behaviors
       b. Reduction
     
    4. Making healthful Decisons
       a. Values
       b. Decision Making
       c. Goal setting
          1. short term
          2. long term
     
    5.  Tabacco/Alcohol/Drug use
       a. health risks
       b. types
       c. effects
       d. treatments 
       e. mental/social/physical impact
     
    6.  Mental/Emotional/Social Health
       a. Development
       b. Benefits
       c. Self Actualization
       d. Character
       e. Mental Disorders
          1. prevention of depression
          2. recognize
          3. treatment 
          4. Suicide prevention 
     
    7. Healthy Relationships
       a. Respect of self and others
       b. Tolerance of differences
       c. anti bullying
       d. Family relationships
       e. Friendships
       g. Peer groups/pressure
       h. Dating
          1. Healthy dating relationships
          2. Dating Violence
     
    8. Sexual Health
       a. Reproductive Systems
       b. Sexual Decision Making
          1. Abstinence only 100% way of avoiding pregnancy, STIs and HIV
          2. Contraception
       c. Pregnancy 
          1. Physiological impact
          2. Emotional/social impact
       d. STI's
          1. Types
          2.  diagnosis
          3. Treatment
       e. HIV
          1. Definition
          2. transmission   
          3. Stages
          4. Diagnosis
          5. Treatment 
     
     
          

    All students are required to complete grade level appropriate health as mandated by the NJDOE.  

    Our freshman curriculum places an emphasis on abstinence and the decision-making process. We provide students with information that includes choices and consequences that are inescapable when a couple makes the decision to engage in sexual activity. Students are taught how to assess the considerations that go into making responsible decisions regarding risky behaviors that can lead to pregnancy, STI’s and HIV transmission.
     
    If you feel that these lessons may interfere with your personal, moral, or religious beliefs, please click on the orange link below to download the waiver. Your child should bring the signed waiver to their Health and PE teacher prior to the start of their Health Class. Your child will be responsible for completing alternate assignments when these lessons are presented. Your child will attend and complete all other health lessons as prescribed by the curriculum.
     
     
     New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards for Comprehensive Health and Physical Education. Health literacy is an integral component of 21st century education. Healthy students are learners who are “knowledgeable, productive, and also emotionally and physically healthy, motivated, civically engaged, prepared for work and economic self-sufficiency, and ready for the world beyond their own borders” (ASCD, 2004). As part of the state’s initiative to prepare students to function optimally as global citizens and workers, the contemporary view of health and physical education focuses on taking personal responsibility for one’s health through an active, healthy lifestyle that fosters a lifelong commitment to wellness. The mission and vision for comprehensive health and physical education reflects this perspective:

    Mission: Knowledge of health and physical education concepts and skills empowers students to assume lifelong responsibility to develop physical, social, and emotional wellness.

    Vision: A quality comprehensive health and physical education program fosters a population that:

    •   Maintains physical, social, and emotional health by practicing healthy behaviors and goal setting.

    •   Engages in a physically active lifestyle.

    •   Is knowledgeable about health and wellness and how to access health resources.

    •   Recognizes the influence of media, technology, and culture in making informed health-related decisions as a consumer of health

      products and services.

    •   Practices effective cross-cultural communication, problem solving, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills.

    •   Is accepting and respectful of individual and cultural differences.

      Advocates for personal, family, community, and global wellness and is knowledgeable about national and international public health

    and safety issues.

    Intent and Spirit of the Comprehensive Health and Physical Education Standards

    All students participate in a comprehensive, sequential, health and physical education program that emphasizes the natural interdisciplinary connection between wellness and health and physical education. The standards provide a blueprint for curriculum development, instruction, and assessment that reflects the latest research-based platform for effective health and physical education programs. The primary focus of the standards is on the development of knowledge and skills that influence healthy behaviors within the context of self, family, school, and the local and global

    TEEN PEP- FRESHMAN WORKSHOP INFO

    We have an elective course offered at MTHS for our seniors called Teen PEP (Prevention Education Program). This is a very unique program where seniors are taught about pertinent health topics ranging from postponing sexual involvement, HIV basics, pregnancy prevention, homophobia reduction, sexual harassment, drugs and alcohol and date rape. There are 20 hand picked seniors selected to take the course (we typically have over 70 apply). The Teen PEP seniors are chosen for their maturity and leadership capabilities. Throughout the course of the year, the senior Teen PEP class conducts workshops for freshmen. A typical workshop would include various topic related skits and small groups which are facilitated by the seniors. Our program emphasis is placed on abstinence as the only 100% effective way of avoiding pregnancy and STI's, however we do discuss birth control methods following the criteria laid out in the high school health core curriculum standards.  If you would like more information regarding this program, please Click on the link on our website or visit the Teen PEP website www.teenpep.org or call Ms. Kathleen Dillon, coordinator of the Health and Physical Education Department.  If you do not wish for your child to attend the Teen PEP workshops, please fill out the waiver below and return to his/her Health and Physical Education Teacher.