macmillan sales conference health and family life education presenter: mavis fuller
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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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