Health, Physical & Driver Education II

Students will demonstrate health and wellness knowledge and skills and complete the driver education classroom instruction. Areas of instruction include emotional, mental, social, and environmental health, safety and emergency preparedness, relationships, substance abuse and disease prevention, family life education, and health/medical career promotion. Students will understand principles of exercise physiology, biomechanics, and anatomy in a variety of lifetime activities. This course emphasizes lifetime physical fitness through individual, group, dance and recreational pursuits. It emphasizes lifetime physical fitness by designing, implementing, self-assessing, and modifying a personal fitness plan. Classroom driver education instruction will focus on safe driving attitudes, skill development, risk awareness, driver alertness, driver distractions, the social and economic consequences of driving, occupant protection, positive interactions with other roadway users, and the physical and psychological conditions that affect driver performance. Students and their parents/guardians are required by state law (§22.1-205; HB1782) to attend the parent student driver education component meeting. Wakefield will conduct two meetings per semester. Successful completion of this course and attendance at the meeting entitles the student to a Driver Education Certificate (DEC-1). Successful course completion is partial prerequisite to obtain a Virginia driver’s license for students less than 19 years-of-age (student will still need to successfully complete the in-car instruction).