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| Social Personal Health education: history and development | SPHE: history and development, aims, content, methods/strategies, evaluation, resources. Health and Education, as distinct concepts, and undertakings; and the connection between them.
| | Personal Awareness | Personal Awareness: Activities that teach grounding, relaxation, connected breathing; promote and stimulate identification of feeling, thinking, doing aspects of total behaviour; positive thinking, expressing emotion, managing behavior. | | Reflective Learning | Oral and written reflection • as a personal statement and in group discussion. Strategies to facilitate reflection in the learning process- circle time; fears in a hat; reflection sheets.
| | Experiential Learning and Facilitation | Experiential learning in the context of humanist, progressive, holistic education Facilitation: Qualities and skills-core conditions (as above); Attending, active listening, responding (Open questions, statements, paraphrases, clarifications, reflection etc.,); Creating a safe environment; Ground rules; Managing icebreakers; Brainstorming; Managing discussion; Planning content and methodology.
| | Adolescent Development | Adolescent development- physical, emotional, sexual, intellectual, psychosocial. Identifying and meeting adolescent needs in the context of Maslow• s hierarchy. | | Challenges and Protective Factyors in Adolescent Development | Challenges to adolescent development: obesity, competitiveness, alcohol, substance abuse, early sexual activity, crisis pregnancy, sti• s, brain development and risk taking, depression, suicidal thoughts, quality of relationships, educational demands, family life, bereavement, illness. Internal and external protective Factors.
| | Self-esteem | Defining self-esteem; Influences on the development of self-esteem; Identification of self-esteem levels in self and others; Significance of Self-esteem; Threats to self-esteem; Strategies to promote, develop and maintain self-esteem in personal and professional lives and in students. Compare Nathaniel Branden's Six Pillars of self-esteem with Deborah Plummer's concept of self-esteem. | | Physical Health | Review and develop physical health program for students at second level. |
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