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THE UNIVERSITY OF THE STATEOF NEW YORK
THE STATEEDUCATION DEPARTMENT
December 1987
TO: Persons with Responsibility for Implementing Health Education Programs
FROM:
Edward Lalor, Director, Division for Program Development
Michael Willie, Director, Division of Pupil Health and Fitness
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SUBJECT: AIDS Instructional Guide: Grades K-12
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The AIDS Instructional Guide: Grades K-12 provides a framework for AIDS instruction within a
comprehensive health education program stressing positive health behaviors. The information
contained in the guide is only a recommended approach to AIDS instruction. Each school district
will need to review the guide with its community Advisory Council to decide on those program
components which best meet the needs of students and express community values, consistent
with Commissioner's Regulations, Subchapter G, Part 135 (see Appendix A).
The guide has been structured to achieve the following:
• Provide information to school personnel on how to implement a home/schoollcommunity
approach to AIDS instruction
• Provide suggested grade-level cluster lessons that are considered age-appropriate and
sequentially developed through objectives and learner outcomes from K-12
• Stress healthful lifestyles
• Provide, in grades K-6, a focus on AIDS which will allay fear and concern
• Stress abstinence in all lessons where methods of prevention are discussed
" Provide connections to the Health Syllabus and Regents Goals
• Provide current information
on AIDS.
There will be periodic updates to this guide as new information and instructional techniques
become known to assist you in instruction. Also, as various prínt and graphic materials are assembled
for AIDS instruction and reviewed by designated staff and Advisory Council members, consideration
should be given to appropriate filing and storage of such materials, as some technical
and.Tor teacher" items on this topic and allied topics could be considered inappropriate for student
use. Any resources that are placed in the school library collection should first be reviewed for
their appropriateness for student use. Please refer to the New York State Education Department
publication, Selection Guidelines: School Library Resources, Textbooks, Instructional Material, for assistance
with district review policies and procedures.
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