Teaching Sexuality Education Grade 7, 9, 10 LRSD, PTSD, SJSD

1. Teaching Sexuality EducationGrade 7, 9, 10 LRSD, PTSD, SJSD Roselle Paulsen Sexuality Education Resource Centre

2. S.E.R.C. • Training and Consultation • Education • Resource Centre • Facts of Life Program • Special Projects

4. MECY Curriculum • Five significant risk behaviors • Inadequate physical activity • Unhealthy dietary behaviors • Drug use including alcohol and tobacco • Sexual behaviors that result in STI and UPP • Intentional and unintentional injuries

5. General Learning Outcomes • Resulting five GLOs • Movement • Fitness Management • Safety* • Personal and Social Management* • Healthy Lifestyle Practices*

6. Curriculum Overview • S.E. in K, gr. 2, 5, 7, 9, 10, 12 • Personal and Social Management is intricately linked to the sexuality unit • 5 or 6 topics per grade • Risk behaviors are the basis for the curriculum

7. What’s in grade 12? • Understanding health relationships • Rights and responsibilities in relationships • Unhealthy and abusive relationships • Community supports and services

8. Sexuality Education What are the values we promote? “What values are you teaching my child?”

9. Why teach it…*Re-enforced information*Discussion with peers*Universal values*A+ sexuality educationInforming parents…

10. Curriculum • Get familiar with the resource • Look at BLM’s and appendices

11. Climate Setting What do you do to make students comfortable?

12. Respect Rules • What? • How? • Why?

13. Values Values Corners Culture

14. Culture Cultural aspects of our experiences: Gender Experiences Ability Age Sexual Orientation Race Faith Heritage Family Politics Economic Class Geography

15. Sexism, racism, homophobia • Fill in individually

16. Language • Sex, gender • Sexuality • LGBTTQQI • LGBT* • Lifestyle • Orientation • Choice

17. 47.5 % of LGBTQ youth do not feel fully accepted at school • 49% have had rumours spread about them • 41% have been sexually harassed at school • Students heard ‘gay’ or ‘fag’ 25-75 times a day at school Dr. Catherine Taylor, U of W, 2008 National Survey on Homophobia and Transphobia in Canadian Schools

19. Messages to Give… 8 groups plan response to one issue • Sex • Masturbation • Their bodies • Relationships • Sexually transmitted infections • Birth control • Sexual orientation • Abortion

20. Puberty

21. 5 I’s of Adolescence • Independence • Identity • Intellect • Integrity • Intimacy

22. Video What Teens Want to Know About Sex sunburst.com

23. Key Issues • Body shape and changes • Breast development (girls/boys) • Posture • Penis development/size • Hygiene • Acne

24. Voice changes • Menstruation, cycles • Sanitary products • Tampons…TSS, virginity, values • Emotions and feelings • Being ‘normal’

28. Reproduction

29. Reproduction • Ova in ovaries from birth • Sperm produced at puberty, as needed • Fertilization: where and how • Implantation • Fetal development • Twinning

30. S.A.K.E. Groups • Skills • Attitudes • Knowledge • Environment

31. SAKE Groups 4 groups: what teens need to develop healthy self concept and relationships • Skills teens need to develop • Attitudes/beliefs we want teens to hold • Knowledge (SRH) teens need to have • Environment that supports teens (at school, at home, in their community)

32. Languages of Sexuality • Medical / scientific • Childhood • Street • Indirect / euphemistic

33. Attitudes: I am sexual I am worth protecting I deserve respect I have goals

34. Using Condoms is…S martA ffordableF ashionableE asyR esponsibleS ensibleE roticX citing

36. Skills: practice processing and scripting • Imagine, process, practice • Practice, practice, practice…

37. An Announcementadapted from Mary LongThis is your last warning!If you continue to ignore me,in showing no interest in learning my name,if you have not spoken to meby the end of next week,I will stop dreaming about you.

38. Although 2/3 of prime time TV shows had sexual content, Less than 1 in 10 contained reference to the risks and responsibilities of sexual activity or… contraception or safer sex. Canadian Guidelines for Sexual Health Education, Health Canada, 2003.

39. Environment: • safety, nurturing, role models • services • opportunities, activities • education • supportive media messages

40. Sexually Transmitted Infections • Diseases • Infections • Transmitted • Transmissible

41. HIV • Human • Immunodeficiency • Virus

42. AIDS • Acquired • Immuno-Deficiency • Syndrome • No cure or vaccine • Preventable

43. Transmission • Sexual intercourse • Infected blood • Infected woman to fetus/baby

44. Infection • Antibodies form, in 6-12 weeks and within 6 months • Symptoms appear • AIDS develops • Can be a 20+ year process

45. HIV in Manitoba • 56 new cases in 2000 • 89 new cases in 2008 • 1,566 cases 1985 – 2008 • Highest rates among 20-39 year olds CDC MB Health 2009

46. Causes of Infection1996-2007 cumulative • Heterosexual contact • IDU • MSM • Endemic Manitoba Health 2008

47. Globally • 33.2 million living with HIV globally • ~ 5,750 AIDS deaths each day • 2.5 million new infections per year U.N. 2008

48. AIDS in Manitoba • 13 new diagnoses in 2006 • 4 in 2008 • 266 cases 1985-2008

49. HIV is NOT spread by: • Touching, hugging, kissing • Sharing food or linens • Being coughed, sneezed, cried on • Giving blood • Pets or insects • Pools, fountains, phones…

50. STIs Chlamydia Genital Herpes Gonorrhea Genital Warts (HPV) Syphilis (vaccine - gr.6 girls) LGV lymphogranuloma venereum HIV Trichomonas Hepatitis B Pubic lice (vaccine – A,B – gr.4’s) Scabies Hep A & C