2414 - HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT SCOPE & SEQUENCE
Philosophy and Vision: The School District of Jefferson strives to provide all students with a comprehensive curriculum reflecting high standards and quality instruction that builds the skills necessary to secure accurate information, make informed responsible decisions, communicate effectively and succeed in living productive, healthy lives as adults. We have four main goals of our instruction:
- To provide accurate information about human sexuality
- To provide an opportunity for young people to develop and understand their values, attitudes, and beliefs about sexuality
- To help young people develop relationships and interpersonal skills, and
- To help young people exercise responsibility regarding sexual relationships, including addressing abstinence, pressures to become prematurely involved in sexual intercourse, and the use of contraception and other sexual health measures.
Rationale for HGD Instruction:
- Statutory support - Wisconsin Statute 118.019 encourages all school boards to provide students in grades Kindergarten to 12 with human growth and development instruction. The purpose is “to promote accurate and comprehensive knowledge in this area and responsible decision making and to support and enhance the efforts of parents to provide moral guidance to their children.”
- Public health plan - Healthiest Wisconsin 2020: A Partnership Plan to Improve the Health of the Public is the Wisconsin state health plan for the decade 2010–2020. The reduction of high-risk sexual behavior is one of eleven health priorities identified in the plan.
- Youth risk behaviors - Data documents an unacceptably high number of Wisconsin youth engage in sexual behavior, resulting in negative health outcomes. Young people need accurate information, motivation, and skills to avoid or reduce risks and promote their emotional and physical health.
- Academic standards - Wisconsin’s model standards, especially in health education and family and consumer education, provide guidance about what students should know and be able to do at certain points in time. Human growth and development curriculum and instruction can be used to prepare students to meet these standards.
- Parents and students want it - National surveys consistently find parental support for school-based sexuality education. Eighty percent (80%) to eighty-five percent (85%) of parents indicate they want their children to receive comprehensive, medically accurate, age-appropriate sex education. Parents see such courses and content as supplementing, not supplanting, their discussions at home, and parents want their children to be taught about the maturity and responsibility required of healthy intimate relationships so that they can delay sexual activity until they are older. Parents also want children to receive information about condoms and contraception so that they have the skills and knowledge they need when they do decide to become sexually active.
HGD Instruction Guidelines
In tandem with parents and other family related community organizations, school based human growth and development instruction will be structured to provide all students with the comprehensive knowledge and skills that promote their health and well-being as they mature into adulthood.
- Curriculum: Human growth and development instruction will follow a written detailed curriculum that is part of the District’s Health Education curriculum and encompasses topics that are based on:
- State statutes and administrative rules
- Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction standards and recommendations
- Board of Education policy and guidelines
- High learning standards and best practice research concerning human growth and development content, materials, assessments, and instructional delivery methods
- Expert knowledge about the intellectual, physical, social, and emotional development of children
- An instruction framework that is age appropriate
- Content that is medically accurate
- Planning, design, and implementation input from the District’s Ad Hoc Advisory Committee
- A curriculum and instructional topics that are inclusive of all students
- Instruction: Human growth and development instruction shall be taught by school personnel who have proper certification and training or by community/public health care professionals that have official agreements with the district such as Jefferson County Human Services or Fort HealthCare. Volunteers will not be used for any student instructional purposes. Human growth and development instruction provided to students will:
- adhere to the Board-approved curriculum content and instructional topics;
- utilize a variety of teaching methods including lecture, discussion, projects, simulations, etc.;
- utilize a variety of teaching materials and resources that are based on the district’s materials selection process;
- be integrated within and across other school subjects in an interdisciplinary manner as appropriate;
- follow the district’s policy on teaching controversial topics; F. encompass instruction in an inclusive and non-discriminatory manner
- where noted in the Human Growth and Development Instruction policy and Board-approved curriculum, teach identified topics in the same course and same year;
- be age appropriate at all times and in all circumstances;
- focus only on medically accurate information whether it be in presentations, materials, or discussions;
- provide for gender separation in grades four and five as related to the topics of human body systems and male/female growth; and
- encourage and facilitate further parent and student communication and discussion.
- Parent(s)/Guardian(s) Information, Notification, and Rights: Parent(s)/guardian(s) are critical to student success in school. Everyone shares the goal of helping students learn and mature into happy, healthy adults. Parent(s)/guardian(s) also have the right as well as responsibility to be involved in their child’s(ren’s) education. They need an active role in those things which affect their child(ren). In the area of human growth and development instruction, parent(s)/guardian(s), through a variety of methods, will be:
- kept informed of human growth and development instruction, the curriculum/topics to be taught, activities to be carried out, and the materials or resources to be utilized;
- invited to review the human growth and development curriculum at any time upon request;
- communicated with on an on-going basis through school newsletters, parent/teacher conferences, and teacher e-mails about current classroom human growth and development activities;
- provided an annual notice directly to them as per the Board’s policy and state law;
- provided information and procedures in the annual notice for exempting their child(ren) from human growth and development instruction;
- encouraged by the district’s human growth and development teachers to communicate with them about general comments, issues, suggestions;
- requested to be involved in open discussions and collaborative decision making about human growth and development instruction; and
- recruited for possible membership appointment to the district’s Ad Hoc Advisory committee.
Annual Notice to Parent(s)/Guardian(s)
- Send notice prior to September 30 by District Office to Parents/Guardians of students in grades 4-9 (Example attached)
- Each teacher will send individual letters to Parents/Guardians prior to instruction
Human Growth & Development Scope and Sequence
Grade | Content/Topics | Key Content Specific Vocabulary | Resources (Videos, books, etc) |
K - 3 | Students are not separately taught Human Growth and Development content and skills in grades K-3. Age and developmentally appropriate content and skills are directly taught in Health Education and Guidance (Social Emotional Learning - SEL). In addition, skills and concepts are indirectly embedded in everyday learning opportunities in all school environments including the classroom, lunchroom, hallway and recess to assist students in developing health relationships and learn about themselves.
*Universal SEL learning continues in all grades moving forward |
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4th Grade | Instruction is provided in gender separated settings. Females: This is an introduction to the changes that the females will experience as they begin puberty.
Males:
| Females: Males: Emotional changes, intellectual changes, physical changes, hygiene changes, body odor, acne, oily hair, bad breath, anti-perspirant/deodorant, nutrition | |
5th Grade | Instruction is provided in gender separated settings. Females: This is a review of the changes that the females will experience as they begin puberty.
Males: This is an introduction to the changes that the males will experience as they begin puberty.
| Females: Males: Emotional changes, intellectual changes, physical changes, pituitary gland, sperm, testicales, nocturnal emission, erection, penis, apocrine gland, eccrine gland, testosteron, estrogen, pubic hair, hygiene changes, body odor, acne, oily hair, bad breath, anti-perspirant/deodorant |
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6th Grade | Starting in 6th grade and beyond students are taught in mixed gender classrooms.
| Penis, scrotum, testicles, vas deferens, epididymis, urethra, prostate gland, seminal vesicle, bladder, testosterone, erection, sperm, pubic hair, vagina, cervix, dilation, uterus, fallopian tube, fimbria, egg or ovum, ovary, puberty, fraternal twins, identical twins, conception, first, second, and third trimesters, fertilization, menstruation, period, embryo, fetus, zygote, umbilical cord, placenta, amniotic sac, pad, tampon, ovulation, endometrium |
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7th Grade |
| Vocabulary in the 6th grade section will be reviewed in addition to: abstinence, withdrawal, male and female condom, birth control pills, , semen, ejaculation, nocturnal emission, wet dream, vulva, hymen, labia, clitoris, progesterone, foreskin, circumcision, cowper’s gland, sexual harassment, sexual abuse, sexual assault, felony, misdemeanor, human papiloma virus, sexually transmitted infections, herpes, HIV, gonorrhea, syphilis, chlamydia, pubic lice, hepatitis, scabies, sex offender registry, monogomy |
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8th Grade |
| Vocabulary in both the 6th and 7th grade section will be reviewed in addition to: love, lust, passion, commitment, infatuation, intimacy, homosexuality, gay, lesbian, bisexual, questioning, transgender, (other inclusive language) sex trafficing, love language |
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9th Grade |
| Erection Ejaculation Circumcision Nocturnal Emission Semen Vasectomy Orgasm Secondary Sex Characteristics Primary Sex Characteristics Ovulation Conception Ectopic Pregnancy Amenorrhea Dysmenorrhea Menarche Menstruation Menstrual Cycle Abstinence Contraception Ova Ovarian Codependency Interdependence Transmission Superinfection Antiretroviral Therapy Antigen Antibody Opportunistic Infection Pathogen |
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*Note: All Human Growth and Development (HGD) Instruction in the School District of Jefferson is in compliance with Wisconsin Statutes. All topics and concepts taught are age appropriate, utilize medically accurate information and resources, and are taught as part of the Health curriculum. All instruction is provided by highly qualified certified District employed personnel.
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