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SKILLS FOR HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS A Program about Sexuality, AIDS and other STDs TEACHER RESOURCE BOOK: BACKGROUND/REFERENCE NWT Version, 1998 The original manual, "Teacher Manual I", was produced by the Social Program Evaluation Group, Queen's University. The project was sponsored by the Council of Ministers of Education Canada. The project was funded by the National Health Research and Development Program and the AIDS Education and Prevention Program through the National AIDS Contribution Program under the National AIDS Strategy, Health and Welfare Canada. This NWT adaptation has been produced by the NWT Association for School Health, with funding from the HIV/AIDS Prevention & Community Action Program (PCAP), of Health Canada and the sponsorship of the Department of Education, Culture and Employment, Government of the Northwest Territories. The contents of this manual do not necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of the organizations and institutions who sponsored or financed this research or participated in it. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction .........................................................................................................................................................1 Implementing SHR in the Northwest Territories .........................................................................................2 Components of the SHR Program . ..................................................................................................................3 Role of SHR Teachers .................................................................................................................................... …4 A. OVERVIEW OF SKILLS FOR HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS 1. Rationale and Background .............................................................................................................................5 2. General Objectives ...........................................................................................................................................6 3. Conceptual Model ............................................................................................................................................7 4. Skills for Healthy Relationships Activities ..................................................................................................8 B. PROGRAM EVALUATION ................................................................................................................................10 C. INSERVICE TRAINING .....................................................................................................................................11 D. PARENT/GUARDIAN INVOLVEMENT ........................................................................................................12 1. Rationale ..........................................................................................................................................................12 2. Parent/Guardian Meetings ...........................................................................................................................13 3. SHR Parent/Guardian Guide .......................................................................................................................13 E. SELECTING AND TRAINING PEER LEADERS ...........................................................................................15 1. Rationale ............................................................................................................................................................15 2. Criteria for Selection of Peer Leaders ..........................................................................................................16 3. The Peer Leader Training ...............................................................................................................................17 a. Introduce SHR ..............................................................................................................................................18 b. Peer leader role ................................................................................................... 18 c. The difficult activities ..................................................................................................................................19 d. Groups and communication ......................................................................................................................19 e. Cooperative Skills and Cooperative Structures .......................................................................................20 f. Peer leaders support peers in adopting responsible behaviours ..........................................................21 g. Group self-evaluation .................................................................................................................................21 4. Feedback and Evaluation ..............................................................................................................................23 5. Peer Leader Certificate ..................................................................................................................................23 F. TEACHING APPROACH.....................................................................................................................................24 1. General Teaching Approach ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................24 a. How students might react .........................................................................................................................25 b. Reaching an understanding .......................................................................................................................25 c. Dealing with uncomfortable situations.....................................................................................................26 d. Helping the anxious student ....................................................................................................................28 i TABLE OF CONTENTS (cont'd) 2. Specific Teaching Approach: Cooperative Learning .................................................................................28 a. Principles of cooperative learning ............................................................................................................28 b. Cooperative Skills ......................................................................................................................................29 c. Cooperative Structures .............................................................................................................................33 d. Role of the student .....................................................................................................................................34 e. Role of the teacher .....................................................................................................................................34 f Group size and composition . .....................................................................................................................35 g. Conditions for cooperative learning ........................................................................................................37 i. Positive interdependence ......................................................................................................................37 ii. Individual accountability .....................................................................................................................38 iii. Interpersonal/Cooperative Skills ........................................................................................................38 iv. Group processing ..................................................................................................................................39 3. Adapting SHR to Meet Diverse Student Needs ........................................................................................39 a. Activity 8 Adaptations ..........................................................................................................................40 b. Activity 9 Adaptations ..........................................................................................................................42 c. Activity 10 Adaptations ........................................................................................................................44 d. Activity 11 Adaptations .......................................................................................................................46 G. STUDENT EVALUATION ....................................................................................................................................47 1. Formal Evaluation ............................................................................................................................................47 2. Criteria for Formal Evaluation ......................................................................................................................48 a. Knowledge tests ............................................................................................................................................48 b. Products assessment .....................................................................................................................................48 c. Class participation ........................................................................................................................................49