MACMILLAN SALES CONFERENCE HEALTH AND FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION Presenter: Mavis Fuller.

MACMILLAN SALES CONFERENCE

HEALTH AND FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION

Presenter: Mavis Fuller

HEALTH AND FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION CONFRONTS OUR SOCIAL ISSUES

HEALTH AND FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION (HFLE)

o HFLE is a comprehensive life skills based programme which focuses on the development of the whole resilient person.

o It helps young people understand that the choices they make in everyday life profoundly influence their health and personal development into adulthood.

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FEATURES OF HEALTH AND

FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION

The Package

The course comprises:

o One Student’s Book for each of the first three years of secondary.

o A Teacher’s Guide for the three years.

o Student’s Activity Book

o Possible additional materials include a CD ROM of images from the books which teachers can show on a white board in the classroom.

The Series

GRADE 7 GRADE 8, GRADE 9

Student’s Books

STUDENT’S BOOK

o Each Student’s Book contains enough material for one 45 minute lesson per week over a year and each lesson takes a double-page spread for easy use.

Activity Books

GRADE 7 GRADE 8, GRADE 9

Activity Books

oThese are intended for active engagement, to give students something to take away – a record of their learning.

Teacher’s Guide for All Three Books

The Teacher’s Guide

The Teacher’s Guide provides:

o sections on teaching methodologies and strategies, participatory learning, assessment;

o lesson notes for each theme and unit in each year, and

o additional information about Life Skills and background factual information.

The Themes

The course explores four themes applicable and relevant to critical areas of life:

o SELF AND INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS o SEXUALITY AND SEXUAL HEALTHo EATING AND FITNESSo MANAGING THE ENVIRONMENT.

They appear in the three Student’s Books.

MAIN EMPHASIS - LIFE SKILLS The main emphasis of the Health

And Family Life Material is the use of LIFE SKILLS

Life Skills are:“The abilities for adaptive and positive

behaviour that enables individuals to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life”

WHO 1993

Emotional Skills Cognitive Skills

Self-awareness

Self-monitoring

Healthy self management

Coping with emotions

Critical thinking

Creative thinking

Problem-solving

Decision making

Social skills Communication –

listening and speaking

Interpersonal skills

Assertiveness

Negotiation

Refusal

Empathy

Advocacy

Cooperation

Application of Life Skills

The practical application of life skills and the engaging format of the material have been significant contributors to the appeal of the material

VISUAL APPEAL AND MORE

The attractive and colourful appearance of the material has made it very appealing to the students

The multicultural graphical representation helps each student to identify with images

LESSON PLANNING Lesson planning continues to be a

challenge in our education system.

The HFLE package has change that as our teachers have become excited to create stimulating and creative lessons for their students who themselves are coming to the class anticipating a great lesson.

TEACHER’S MANUAL

STUDENT’S BOOK 2

ACTIVITY BOOK 2

CURRICULUM ALIGNMENT The student’s books are aligned to the HFLE curriculum

The structure and content of the Teacher’s Manual facilitates the creative and effective preparation of lessons from the curriculum

LEVELS OF LEARNERSo It’s interactive and participatory nature engages the

emotions of students through mini-stories, case studies, discussion, personal reflection, role play.

o The cooperative methodology assists the learner who is challenged and who may be slower to benefit from the experience and grow socially, emotionally and academically

o Activities enable students to build on their own experience, understand important ideas and practise appropriate skills.

PARENT INVOLVEMENT Students are encouraged to share their

HFLE related work with their parents and parents have become interested because of what they have been hearing from and seeing in their children.

Parent participation has proven to facilitates positive outcomes, strengthens school performance and strongly impacts future development and achievement

HFLE IN CARIBBEAN

Turks and Caicos Anguilla Monsterrat British Virgin Island have recently been trained and the

monitoring is being executed.

HFLE MATERIAL IN CARIBBEAN

Grenada has completed a year of piloting the Student’s Books with significant results

They have recently obtained the Activity Books and the Teacher’s Manual

HFLE IN JAMAICAN SCHOOLS

In July 2011 class sets of the Student’s Books were procured by the Ministry of Education for all our Secondary, Primary and Junior High and All-Age schools as text books to enhance the implementation of the HFLE curriculum.

The HFLE book order represented the largest order of text books for the school system this academic year.

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