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MACMILLAN SALES CONFERENCE

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).

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MACMILLAN SALES CONFERENCE

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

  2. HEALTH AND FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION CONFRONTS OUR SOCIAL ISSUES

  3. HEALTH AND FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION (HFLE) • HFLE is a comprehensive life skills based programme which focuses on the development of the whole resilient person. • It helps young people understand that the choices they make in everyday life profoundly influence their health and personal development into adulthood. .

  4. FEATURES OF HEALTH AND FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION

  5. The Package The course comprises: • One Student’s Book for each of the first three years of secondary. • A Teacher’s Guide for the three years. • Student’s Activity Book • Possible additional materials include a CD ROM of images from the books which teachers can show on a white board in the classroom.

  6. The Series Student’s Books GRADE 7 GRADE 8, GRADE 9

  7. STUDENT’S BOOK • 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.

  8. Activity Books GRADE 7 GRADE 8, GRADE 9

  9. Activity Books • These are intended for active engagement, to give students something to take away – a record of their learning.

  10. Teacher’s Guide for All Three Books

  11. The Teacher’s Guide The Teacher’s Guide provides: • sections on teaching methodologies and strategies, participatory learning, assessment; • lesson notes for each theme and unit in each year, and • additional information about Life Skills and background factual information.

  12. The Themes The course explores four themes applicable and relevant to critical areas of life: • SELF AND INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS • SEXUALITY AND SEXUAL HEALTH • EATING AND FITNESS • MANAGING THE ENVIRONMENT. They appear in the three Student’s Books.

  13. 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

  14. Self-awareness Self-monitoring Healthy self management Coping with emotions Critical thinking Creative thinking Problem-solving Decision making Emotional Skills Cognitive Skills

  15. Communication – listening and speaking Interpersonal skills Assertiveness Negotiation Refusal Empathy Advocacy Cooperation Social skills

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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.

  19. TEACHER’S MANUAL

  20. STUDENT’S BOOK 2

  21. ACTIVITY BOOK 2

  22. 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

  23. LEVELS OF LEARNERS • It’s interactive and participatory nature engages the emotions of students through mini-stories, case studies, discussion, personal reflection, role play. • 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 • Activities enable students to build on their own experience, understand important ideas and practise appropriate skills.

  24. 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

  25. HFLE IN CARIBBEAN • Turks and Caicos • Anguilla • Monsterrat • British Virgin Island have recently been trained and the monitoring is being executed.

  26. 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

  27. 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.

  28. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION

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