In Health we learn about how to develop and maintain lifelong health and wellness practices. The goal of this course is to help students develop their own personal understanding of health that will sustain them throughout their lives.
To see the presentation with information I provided during parent night, click here!
I will host a virtual Zoom meeting every time this class is scheduled to meet.
I do my best to limit the amount of Zoom time to what the district has suggested for synchronous meetings -- 25 minutes on a Monday and 45 minutes on a Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday/Friday
The rest of the class time is dedicated to finishing the assignments we have begun in the Zoom meetings together
I take attendance through the Zoom meeting. If students are present and their names are on the list of participants for the Zoom meeting, they will be marked present.
Students who are absent MUST message me in Schoology to notify me! That will ensure I know to go back and mark them present.
When I assign work, I do my best to make sure that work can be reasonably completed during class time. Students will rarely have to spend a great deal of time outside of class completing assignments if they are diligent and work hard.
However, students should be completing any assignments they have not finished in class at home.
The most current student grades will be posted on my online Google Sheets gradebook (see link above). Schoology will be updated at the end of every 5-week grading period
My grading scale is as follows:
A: 90% - 100%
B: 70% - 89.999%
C: 50% - 69.999%
D: 30% - 49.999%
F: 0.00% - 29.999%
Grades are calculated based on the total number of points students have earned out of the total number of points possible.
When I grade students' work, I grade on an "all-or-nothing" policy.
All work will be checked to see whether it has been finished to the best of a student's ability.
Incomplete work will be given a zero.
Incorrect work will be returned with feedback and the opportunity to correct it.
Work that has been plagiarized (in any aspect) will receive an immediate, nonnegotiable, permanent zero. I have no tolerance for cheating.
Our textbook for Health is "Comprehensive Health". Students have access to a PDF copy of this textbook through Google Drive links
I do use the textbook as our primary resource and source for assignments in class. I will provide students with all the information, resources, and questions they need to answer in a Google Doc. Students complete their work in this Google Doc and then submit it to me.
Students can contact me outside of school through e-mail or by messaging me in Schoology. I will respond within 24 hours, most of the time much sooner.
For most assignments, students will have an extended amount of time to complete the work. Almost all assignments will have at least a week to be completed, if not more.
When I do assign a due date, it is firm and nonegotiable.
Almost all assignments I provide are not time-sensitive, so student absences will not prevent them from completing them. However, missing class makes it much harder to complete work, so being present every day ensures that students do well in my class.