What are the benefits of delivering sexual health education to students? Students who participate in these programs are more likely to: Delay initiation of sexual intercourse Have fewer sex partners Have fewer experiences of unprotected sex Increase their use of protection, specifically condoms Improve their academic performance. This includes misuse of prescription drugs, use of illicit drugs i. What does delivering sexual health education look like in action?
Implement policies that foster supportive environments for SHE. Identify existing state, district, and school policies on health education and SHE for all students. Establish a skills-based health education course requirement—which includes SHE content—for all middle and high school students. Use health content that is medically accurate, developmentally appropriate, culturally inclusive, and grounded in science.
Develop or select a SHE curriculum—consistent with the approved scope and sequence—that includes instructional lessons, student activities, resources, and assessment strategies.
Promote the use of teaching tools and resources—for example, pacing guides or specific lesson plans—to continuously improve SHE content and delivery. Equip staff with the knowledge and skills needed to deliver SHE. Seek feedback from teachers, staff, students, and administrators within the school about what critical knowledge and skills are needed to effectively deliver SHE.
Identify a set of instructional competencies—the essential knowledge and teaching skills—that those delivering SHE should know and be able to demonstrate during instruction. Use the identified instructional competencies to design, implement, and evaluate teacher and staff professional development and training.
Engage parents and community partners. Create School Health Advisory Councils SHACs , or similar committees, that regularly provide district-level guidance on the school health program for students and staff.
Within SHE, a SHAC can make valuable recommendations to strengthen curriculum or professional development and training opportunities for staff. Use strategies to actively engage families and communities in school health programs, explicitly gaining their feedback on SHE curricula through participation on the SHACs. Open All Close All. Keys To Success. For More Information. This tool helps school and community leaders conduct clear, complete, and consistent analyses of health education curricula across a wide variety of topics e.
School and community leaders can use this module to develop, select, or revise SHE curricula and instruction. Include Synonyms Include Dead terms. Schools can have a tremendous impact on student achievement if they follow the direction provided by research.
The book attempts to synthesize the research over the last 35 years that has provided clear and unprecedented insight into the nature of schooling. The WWC has added a new protocol to guide systematic reviews of evidence on interventions designed to improve English language and literacy skills of students in kindergarten to grade The new protocol is used in conjunction with version 4.
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Select topics to Find What Works based on the evidence. What's New at the WWC. Jan Dec WWC Intervention Effectiveness Ratings This video describes how ratings in each Intervention Report provide WWC users with valuable information about the research quality and key findings of the research on that intervention.
Making Evidence-Based Decisions: WWC Ratings and Evidence Levels The WWC released an infographic that describes the specific ratings and elements used to describe strength of evidence for individual studies, intervention reports, and practices guides, as well as the process to determine those ratings. Nov
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