1. New Health and Physical Education Curriculum
Presented By
Jean Thompson & Farnoush Ghaheri
New Health and Physical Education Curriculum

2. Audience Parents of students in grades 9 – 12
In small town in rural Ontario
Based on new Ontario Health and Physical Education Curriculum
Number of participants: 24
Number of facilitators: 1-2

3. EVENT LOCATION Community Centre
Not just about formal education, but applicable to the community’s health and needs
Room Set-Up
U-shaped desks with moveable chairs in a room large enough to pull chairs into circles for small groups

4. Invitation plan
Organized by services organizations, religious groups, parent councils, libraries etc.
Goes out through schools, community centres etc.
Parents sign-up online
Saturdays in the fall (parents)
Successive weekends (students)

5. LEARNING OUTCOMES
Participants can articulate several primary components to the curriculum.
Participants can identify rationale for the changes
Participants can correctly identify the same practices for contraceptive and sexual health prevention that their child(ren) learn in schools.
Participants understand the importance of parents’ involvement in a student’s education/ Participants understand the importance of peer involvement in a student’s education.

6. Participants understand the importance of parents’ involvement in a student’s Education:
Parents are the primary educators of their children with respect to:
Learning about values,
Appropriate behaviour
Spiritual, and personal beliefs and traditions
Parents can support their children’s learning effectively in a variety of ways:
They can attend parent-teacher interviews,
Participate in parent workshops,
Take part in school council activities or become a school council member.

7. Participants understand the importance of parents’ involvement in a student’s Education:
Awareness will enhance parents’ ability to discuss their children’s work with them, to communicate with teachers.
By recognizing the achievements of their children in health and physical education, parents can help them develop confidence.
Parents act as significant role models for their children

8. Participants can articulate several primary components to the curriculum

9. Component of Human Development

10. Parents can Identify Rationale for changes to the curriculum

11. Parents can Identify Rationale for changes to the curriculum
BOPPS Lesson Plan:
Learning outcome is cognitive, leading to affective
Bridge-in
Invite participants to think back to 1998
Objective
Introduce learning outcome for session
Pre-assessment
Pose question to group:
Why do you believe the curriculum has been updated recently?
Participatory learning:
True or False statements:
Post-assessment
Invite parents to list reasons for a curriculum update
ask them to circle reasons they believe the curriculum update to be valid, and cross out reasons they believe to be invalid
Closing
Round table check-in based on content before break

12. Agenda 9:00 am Welcome and Introductions Highlight importance of event
Review agenda
Introduce parking lot 
9:15 am
Opening Activity - introductions of group/icebreaker
Instructions from facilitator: explain bowl
Bowl to pull names out of to go around the group

13. Agenda 9:30 am Opening Activity - question asking
Using poll everywhere
Need: projector at front of room to pull up graphic and instructions
Each participant to have phone
What brought you here today
Opposed to the curriculum changes
Curious about curriculum changes
Worried about their child(ren)
Wanting to support their child(ren)’s learning
Personal education
Parenting techniques
Adapting to changes
Other

14. Agenda 9:50 am First session (55mins)
Participants understand the importance of parents’ involvement in a student’s education.
10:45am
Break
Provided coffee, juice, cookies

15. Agenda 11:00 am Second session (1h)
Learning Outcome: Participants can articulate several primary components to the curriculum
12:00 pm
Lunch time

16. Agenda 1:00 pm Third session (1h30)
Learning Outcome: Participants can identify rationale for the changes
2.30 pm
Break
Provided coffee, juice, cookies

17. Agenda 2.45 pm Final session (1h15)
Participants can correctly identify the same practices for contraceptive and sexual health prevention that their child(ren) learn in schools

18. Agenda 4:00 pm Wrap-up Visit parking lot Introduce sibling support
Single learning exercise tool
‘Older sibling’ reflects on what they would have wanted to know when they were at a certain age

19. Agenda
4: 40 pm
Evaluation
2-minute essay question on “List the 4 most important topics you learned today?”
Questionnaire on the content/process
5:00 pm
Ending

20. THANKS
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