PPLA's
comprehensive sexuality education curriculum centers on critical thinking, human rights, gender equality, and access to health care, and is aligned with the sexual health education requirements of the California Healthy Youth Act.
Get Real: Comprehensive Sex Education That Works is
a comprehensive sexuality education curriculum designed for middle and high school aged youth.
«This poll also supports the need for school - based programs like Get Real,
our comprehensive sexuality education curriculum designed for middle and high school aged youth,» said Slonaker.
BOSTON - Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts (PPLM) announced today that
its comprehensive sexuality education curriculum, Get Real: Comprehensive Sex Education That Works, has been added to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) list of evidence - based programs.
The health goal of the curriculum is to promote positive sexual health behaviors and beliefs among students who have participated in the Get Real middle school
comprehensive sexuality education curriculum, resulting in a delay of sexual initiation, a reduction of unintended pregnancies, and higher use of protection methods.
Developing
a comprehensive sexuality education curriculum for middle schools and high schools that is now in 131 schools and reaching over 30,000 students.
These 11 lessons scaffold seamlessly from the knowledge gained in the middle school curriculum, yet the high school curriculum can also stand on its own, as
a comprehensive sexuality education curriculum for ninth or tenth graders.
Our study of 78 secondary schools, conducted in 2015, found that although three out of four teachers say they teach all the topics that comprise
a comprehensive sexuality education curriculum, only two per cent of the students say they learned this material.
Comprehensive sexuality education curricula that emphasize critical thinking about gender and power — the empowerment approach — are far more effective than conventional «gender - blind» programmes at reducing rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and unintended early pregnancy.
Not exact matches
Most school districts have
comprehensive sexual
education policies and
curricula in place, according to two national surveys to be released this week, but
sexuality education, and particularly the promotion of abstinence - only
education, remain magnets for controversy.
Get Real Middle School is a
comprehensive evidence - based
sexuality education curriculum developed by Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts that empowers students in grades 6, 7 and 8 to delay sex and protect themselves from pregnancy and STIs.
Get Real High School is a
comprehensive evidence - informed
sexuality education curriculum developed by Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts that empowers high school students to delay sex and protect themselves from pregnancy and STIs.
The goal of this study was to provide a robust,
comprehensive analysis of policies and
curricula regarding
sexuality education in Kenya and their implementation in secondary schools, with a focus on three geographically and ethnically diverse counties: Homa Bay, Mombasa and Nairobi.
At a time when the revised national
curriculum is about to be piloted by the government, the release of our new study assessing
sexuality education policies,
curricula, and their implementation in Nairobi, Homa Bay, and Mombasa counties provides evidence and an opportunity for policymakers and other decision makers to explore how best to strengthen the content and delivery of
comprehensive sexuality education.
Improve the comprehensiveness of the
curriculum content and diversify the teaching methods used in the classroom to more accurately reflect the UNFPA definition of
comprehensive sexuality education, and so place more emphasis on promoting practical skills, confidence and agency among students; eliminate fear - based and moralistic messages; and increase the focus on gender, rights and strategies for preventing unintended pregnancies that teach about a broad range of contraceptives (including long - acting methods) and negotiating skills within relationships.
Improve the comprehensiveness of the
curriculum content and diversify the teaching methods used in the classroom to more accurately follow UNFPA's definition of
comprehensive sexuality education, and to place more emphasis on promoting practical skills, confidence and agency among students; eliminate fear - based and moralistic messages; and increase the focus on strategies for preventing unintended pregnancies that teach about a broad range of contraceptives (including long - acting methods) and negotiating skills within relationships.
Comprehensive sexuality education should include the fostering of practical skills; however, these receive little attention in the
curriculum content and teaching approach, and student assessments focus more on knowledge than on attitudes and practical skills.
The Healthy Youth Act would ensure that schools deciding to provide
sexuality education use a
comprehensive, medically - accurate, and age - appropriate
curriculum.
Our Whole Lives
curricula are based on the Guidelines for
Comprehensive Sexuality Education (PDF) produced by the National Guidelines Task Force, a group of leading health, education, and sexuality professionals assembled by the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States
Sexuality Education (PDF) produced by the National Guidelines Task Force, a group of leading health, education, and sexuality professionals assembled by the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States
Education (PDF) produced by the National Guidelines Task Force, a group of leading health,
education, and sexuality professionals assembled by the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States
education, and
sexuality professionals assembled by the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States
sexuality professionals assembled by the
Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States
Sexuality Information and
Education Council of the United States
Education Council of the United States (SIECUS).
Read about our contemporary
curricula, including
comprehensive sexuality education.
Ensuring access to medically accurate, age appropriate
comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) in schools by using an evidence based
curriculum and reducing sociodemographic disparities in its receipt is central to improving the health and well - being of children and young adults in the State of New York.
The guidance identifies the characteristics of effective
comprehensive sexuality education programmes, recommends essential topics and learning objectives that should be covered in
curricula for all learners, and outlines approaches for planning, delivering and monitoring
comprehensive sexuality education programmes.