Skills-based health education including life skills

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Skills-based health educationincluding life
skills
Making the links Unicef, New York
Also go to http//www.unicef.org/programme/lifeski
lls/mainmenu.html
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What is the link?
Child Friendly Schools
F.R.E.S.H.
Health Promoting Schools
Skills-based health education
Life skills
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Child Friendly Schools
Quality learners healthy, well-nourished, ready
to learn, and supported by their family and
community Quality content curricula and
materials for literacy, numeracy, knowledge,
attitudes, and skills for life Quality
teaching-learning processes child-centred
(life) skills-based approaches, technology
Quality learning environments policies and
practices, facilities (classrooms, water,
sanitation), services (safety, physical and
psycho-social health) Quality outcomes
knowledge, attitudes and skills suitable
assessment, at classroom and national
levels And gender-sensitive throughout
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Child-seeking
and Child-centred

• Inclusive of children
• Effective for learning
• Healthy and protective for children
• Involved with children, families, and communities
• Gender-sensitive

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What is FRESH ?

• Focusing
• Resources on
• Effective
• School
• Health
• A partnership UNESCO, UNICEF, WHO, WORLD BANK

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FRESH

• Core intervention activities
• Effective health, hygiene and nutrition policies
  for schools
• Sanitation and access to safe water facilities
  for all schools
• Skills based health, hygiene nutrition
  education
• School based health nutrition services
• Supporting activities
• Effective partnerships between teachers and
  health workers
• Effective community partnerships
• Pupil participation

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What is skills-based health education ?

• part of good quality education
• not just for health issues
• not just for schools

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Skills-based health education...
- has behaviour change as part of programme
objectives - has a balance of knowledge,
attitudes and skills - uses participatory
teaching and learning methods - is based on
student needs - is gender sensitive throughout
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Content Methods
The content areas of skills-health education
The methods for teaching learning
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Content
Methods
What topic? What issue?
Knowledge Attitudes
Skills (life)
About what? Towards what? For what?
Learning Outcomes
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(Life) Skills
Content
knowledge
attitudes
Communication skills
Values analysis clarification skills
Decision making skills
Coping stress management skills
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Methods for teaching learning better
- child-centred - interactive participatory
- group work discussion - brainstorming - role
play - educational games - debates - practising
people skills
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Who can facilitate?
Just about anybody!
- teachers - young people (peer educators) -
community agencies - religious groups - others...
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What settings can be used?
Just about any setting!
- school - community - street - vocational -
religious - existing groups or clubs - others...
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Expected outcomesOutput depends on input
HEALTH DEVELOPMENT GOALS
BEHAVIOURAL OUTCOMES
ANTECEDENTS PROTECTIVE RISK FACTORS
School, community, national plus... media
campaigns, national policies, health social
services
School, community plus... policies, health
services, community partnerships...
Effort required
School ... Skills-based health ed plus...
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Evaluation
Session/classroom level - immediate KAS
outcome Behaviour level - behavioural
outcome Epidemiological level - health outcome
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Barriersto the life skills approach
- poorly understood
- competing priorities
- poor policy support
- poor and uneven implementation
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3 main ways to implement in schools
Fast Track Slow Track
1. carrier subject 2. separate
subject or unit of work (long term option)
(short term option) 3. infusion/integration
(not recommended)
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Priority Actions

• Away from Towards.
• small scale. national coverage
• isolated education
• programs.... comprehensive - FRESH
• integration.. Single carrier subject
• creating new materials. better use of what is
• generic programs. specific (health and social)
• outcomes
• HIV/AIDS life skills as
• an add-on.. dedicated staff, training
• support over time