| Description |
The following is the proposed curriculum - subject to input from the students about their needs and interests:
1. Sexual and Reproductive Anatomy Review: Possibly reviewing anatomy
and physiology with a game, possibly with a project involving 3-d
construction with candy or with fruit. Very amusing and also educational.
Starting with anatomy is sort of a trial by fire but I think that a
fundamental knowledge of anatomy is pretty important to understand many
other concepts.
2. HIV 101 and STD Risk Reduction: Basics of HIV with an eye to the
next class with an HIV+ speaker. Also an interactive activity about risk
factors.
3. HIV+ speaker: We work with PERY speakers (Positive Educators
Reaching Youth) to bring a personal story to HIV education. We work with
many speakers with diverse stories but all are amazingly powerful and
inspirational. This may also encompass personal experiences with addiction,
abuse and other risk increasing factors but is delivered in an
age-appropriate and personal manner. (If we decide to do this I will
strongly encourage all interested parties to attend.)
4. Protection- Birth Control and STD prevention: Familiarize
participants with all methods of pregnancy prevention and risk reduction.
Hands-on and factual, non-judgmental, I strongly believe that all people
should be reasonably well educated about these methods, whether they plan to
use them or not.
5. Sex, Consent and the Law: Discuss consent, assault, age of consent,
statutory rape, “sexting” and liability for STD transmission in the form of
several local and recent court cases. Possible mock trials.
6. Sex, Gender and Sexual Orientation: Discuss the definitions of
Biological Sex, Gender, Gender Role, and Sexual Orientation and how these
categories may fail to live up to our preconceived ideas about them.
7. Relationships, Communication and Decision-making: Angle on this
discussion heavily depends on group needs. |