Resources for Teachers
These are Google Docs for teachers to print out and use in the classroom!
TEACHER TALKING POINTS
This resource is a script for teachers preparing their students for a week of puberty education. It helps teachers frame the program as a great opportunity for learning and making puberty fun. If teachers set the stage for a positive attitude about puberty class, the students tend to follow their lead. Many teachers mistakenly over empathize with the students who express, awkwardness, nervousness or disgust about puberty class and then perpetuate sex negative attitudes about bodies, hygiene and growing up. By using these tips you can make teaching puberty class much easier for either Superstar Health Education guest speaker or a classroom teacher.
Question Answering Tips for Answering Puberty and Sexuality Questions from Kids. Remembering these simple tips will make answering questions easy for adults. These pointers make adults look unflappable in the face of challenging questions. They also help adults keep good boundaries around personal sharing. Since we live in a multi-cultural world we also need to have ways to be sure we include the wide range of opinion in the community and encourage parents to be the most important educators of their children.
How to Answer Values Based Questions in a Classroom
This outlines in detail how to answer questions of morals or values in a classroom around controversial topic that have a broad range of opinion in the community. Examples of CONTROVERSIAL issues that have a wide range of values in the community: Abortion, Birth control ,Masturbation, Sex outside of marriage, Cohabitation ,What age/under what circumstances it's acceptable to start having sex, etc NOTE: Parents, unlike teachers, should feel free to ask your child about his or her beliefs and to share yours. In fact, this sort of dialogue within families is very important. Employees of public schools and other public agencies have an ethical obligation not to side with one family or one religious perspective or one child over another. But children absolutely need a chance -- at home -- to explore feelings and beliefs with adults they love, just as they need a chance to learn factual information and to have universal, community values reinforced at school. However, just because it's inappropriate in a public school setting to teach particular values on controversial issues, that does not mean one can't teach about the issues. It just means that it must be done with respect for the diversity of opinion within your community.
Recommended Books For Children & Puberty Aged Youth
Superstar Online Resource List
These online resources are good links for teachers and parents to create a bookmark for puberty age kids and youth. Since the internet is full of not so helpful information about sex and sexuality for kids adult need to be proactive in pointing children toward accurate, youth friendly and age appropriate resources online.
How to be an Askable Parent
This is a resource to share with parents of children who are attending the Puberty Education classes at school. It helps parents see themselves as a part of the education program and acknowledges their roll as the first and most important educator of their child.
TEACHER TALKING POINTS
This resource is a script for teachers preparing their students for a week of puberty education. It helps teachers frame the program as a great opportunity for learning and making puberty fun. If teachers set the stage for a positive attitude about puberty class, the students tend to follow their lead. Many teachers mistakenly over empathize with the students who express, awkwardness, nervousness or disgust about puberty class and then perpetuate sex negative attitudes about bodies, hygiene and growing up. By using these tips you can make teaching puberty class much easier for either Superstar Health Education guest speaker or a classroom teacher.
Question Answering Tips for Answering Puberty and Sexuality Questions from Kids. Remembering these simple tips will make answering questions easy for adults. These pointers make adults look unflappable in the face of challenging questions. They also help adults keep good boundaries around personal sharing. Since we live in a multi-cultural world we also need to have ways to be sure we include the wide range of opinion in the community and encourage parents to be the most important educators of their children.
How to Answer Values Based Questions in a Classroom
This outlines in detail how to answer questions of morals or values in a classroom around controversial topic that have a broad range of opinion in the community. Examples of CONTROVERSIAL issues that have a wide range of values in the community: Abortion, Birth control ,Masturbation, Sex outside of marriage, Cohabitation ,What age/under what circumstances it's acceptable to start having sex, etc NOTE: Parents, unlike teachers, should feel free to ask your child about his or her beliefs and to share yours. In fact, this sort of dialogue within families is very important. Employees of public schools and other public agencies have an ethical obligation not to side with one family or one religious perspective or one child over another. But children absolutely need a chance -- at home -- to explore feelings and beliefs with adults they love, just as they need a chance to learn factual information and to have universal, community values reinforced at school. However, just because it's inappropriate in a public school setting to teach particular values on controversial issues, that does not mean one can't teach about the issues. It just means that it must be done with respect for the diversity of opinion within your community.
Recommended Books For Children & Puberty Aged Youth
Superstar Online Resource List
These online resources are good links for teachers and parents to create a bookmark for puberty age kids and youth. Since the internet is full of not so helpful information about sex and sexuality for kids adult need to be proactive in pointing children toward accurate, youth friendly and age appropriate resources online.
How to be an Askable Parent
This is a resource to share with parents of children who are attending the Puberty Education classes at school. It helps parents see themselves as a part of the education program and acknowledges their roll as the first and most important educator of their child.