N.H. Admin. Code § Ed 306.40

Current through Register No. 44, October 31, 2024

Section Ed 306.40 - Health Education Program

(a) Pursuant to Ed 306.26 and Ed 306.27, the local school board shall require that a school health education program for grades 1-12 provides:

(1) Health education;

(2) School health services;

(3) Food and nutrition services;

(4) A comprehensive guidance and counseling program;

(5) Healthy school facilities; and

(6) Family and community partnerships.

(b) The local school board shall require that each school health education program provides:

(1) Systematic instruction in grades K-12, designed to enable students to:

a. Comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention, linking to all content areas;

b. Demonstrate functional knowledge of the most important and enduring ideas, issues, and concepts related to achieving good health;

c. Demonstrate the ability to access valid health information and health-promoting products and services;

d. Demonstrate the ability to practice health enhancing behaviors and reduce health risks;

e. Analyze the effect of culture, media, technology, and other influences on health;

f. Demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communications skills to enhance health;

g. Demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting and decision making skills to enhance health; and

h. Demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family, and community health;

(2) A planned K-12 curriculum in health education designed to teach the skills listed in (b)(1) above across the following content areas of health education:

a. Alcohol and other drug use prevention, in accordance with RSA 189:10;

b. Injury prevention;

c. Nutrition;

d. Physical activity;

e. Family life and comprehensive sexuality education, including instruction relative to abstinence and sexually transmitted infections in accordance with RSA 189:10;

f. Tobacco use prevention;

g. Mental health;

h. Personal and consumer health; and

i. Community and environmental health; and

(3) Sound assessment practices in health education that:

a. Match goals and objectives;

b. Require evaluation and synthesis of knowledge and skills;

c. Emphasize higher order thinking skills;

d. Clearly indicate what the student is asked to do but not how to do it;

e. Are at the appropriate reading level;

f. Have criteria that are clear to students and teachers;

g. Are engaging and relevant to students;

h. Link to ongoing instruction;

i. Provide feedback to students;

j. Provide cost-effective benefits to students;

k. Reflect real world situations; and

l. Emphasize use of available knowledge and skills in relevant problem contexts.

N.H. Admin. Code § Ed 306.40

Amended by Volume XXXIV Number 16, Filed April 17, 2014, Proposed by #10556, Effective 3/27/2014, Expires3/27/2024.

Amended by Volume XXXVI Number 06, Filed February 11, 2016, Proposed by #11020, Effective 1/8/2016, Expires 1/8/2026.

Amended by Volume XXXIX Number 37, Filed September 12, 2019, Proposed by #12845, Effective 8/9/2019, Expires 8/9/2029.