La. Admin. Code tit. 28 § LIX-303

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024

Section LIX-303 - Curriculum Integration

A. Adoption of standards across curricular areas increases the potential to make connections which come naturally among subjects from early childhood through high school. Curriculum integration can help students make connections between health content and generic skills (e.g., critical thinking, decision-making, etc.). In addition to teaching health education in a self-contained environment, integration of other subjects will support, rather than replace, student learning of health education concepts. However, for integration to be effective, staff development must occur. Teachers need time to meet collaboratively, to identify connections across subject areas, and to plan curricular integration within and across grade levels.

B. In teaching health education, other subject areas can be easily integrated. Health education curricula can be easily integrated with reading comprehension, language arts, science, mathematics, social studies, and physical education. For example, at the elementary level, the health education curriculum is specifically intended to teach the interpersonal and conflict management skills students need to "get along." These skills are grounded in listening and speaking effectively. Health education also affords students many opportunities to write about topics of interest to them such as their personal feelings, growth, and development. In addition, students can apply the mathematical and science processes of measuring, charting, graphing, estimating, predicting, justifying, and classifying in conjunction with health lessons. At the middle and high school levels:

1. language skills are utilized in accessing and evaluating health information;

2. citizenship and communication skills are involved in community advocacy;

3. knowledge of body system functions includes anatomy; and

4. environmental science concepts are reinforced by the understanding of ecological systems.

La. Admin. Code tit. 28, § LIX-303

Promulgated by the Department of Education, Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, Office of Student and School Performance, LR 28:1943 (September 2002), repromulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 37:2097 (July 2011).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 17:24.4 et seq.