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..

 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 o These 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 HEALTH o EATING AND FITNESS o 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 LEARNERS o 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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