New Health and Physical Education Curriculum Presented By Jean Thompson & Farnoush Ghaheri New Health and Physical Education Curriculum

Audience Parents of students in grades 9 – 12 In small town in rural Ontario Based on new Ontario Health and Physical Education Curriculum Number of participants: 24 Number of facilitators: 1-2

EVENT LOCATION Community Centre Not just about formal education, but applicable to the community’s health and needs Room Set-Up U-shaped desks with moveable chairs in a room large enough to pull chairs into circles for small groups

Invitation plan Organized by services organizations, religious groups, parent councils, libraries etc. Goes out through schools, community centres etc. Parents sign-up online Saturdays in the fall (parents) Successive weekends (students)

LEARNING OUTCOMES Participants can articulate several primary components to the curriculum. Participants can identify rationale for the changes Participants can correctly identify the same practices for contraceptive and sexual health prevention that their child(ren) learn in schools. Participants understand the importance of parents’ involvement in a student’s education/ Participants understand the importance of peer involvement in a student’s education.

Participants understand the importance of parents’ involvement in a student’s Education: Parents are the primary educators of their children with respect to: Learning about values, Appropriate behaviour Spiritual, and personal beliefs and traditions Parents can support their children’s learning effectively in a variety of ways: They can attend parent-teacher interviews, Participate in parent workshops, Take part in school council activities or become a school council member.

Participants understand the importance of parents’ involvement in a student’s Education: Awareness will enhance parents’ ability to discuss their children’s work with them, to communicate with teachers. By recognizing the achievements of their children in health and physical education, parents can help them develop confidence. Parents act as significant role models for their children

Participants can articulate several primary components to the curriculum

Component of Human Development

Parents can Identify Rationale for changes to the curriculum

Parents can Identify Rationale for changes to the curriculum BOPPS Lesson Plan: Learning outcome is cognitive, leading to affective Bridge-in Invite participants to think back to 1998 Objective Introduce learning outcome for session Pre-assessment Pose question to group: Why do you believe the curriculum has been updated recently? Participatory learning: True or False statements: Post-assessment Invite parents to list reasons for a curriculum update ask them to circle reasons they believe the curriculum update to be valid, and cross out reasons they believe to be invalid Closing Round table check-in based on content before break

Agenda 9:00 am Welcome and Introductions Highlight importance of event Review agenda Introduce parking lot  9:15 am Opening Activity - introductions of group/icebreaker Instructions from facilitator: explain bowl Bowl to pull names out of to go around the group

Agenda 9:30 am Opening Activity - question asking Using poll everywhere Need: projector at front of room to pull up graphic and instructions Each participant to have phone What brought you here today Opposed to the curriculum changes Curious about curriculum changes Worried about their child(ren) Wanting to support their child(ren)’s learning Personal education Parenting techniques Adapting to changes Other

Agenda 9:50 am First session (55mins) Participants understand the importance of parents’ involvement in a student’s education. 10:45am Break Provided coffee, juice, cookies

Agenda 11:00 am Second session (1h) Learning Outcome: Participants can articulate several primary components to the curriculum 12:00 pm Lunch time

Agenda 1:00 pm Third session (1h30) Learning Outcome: Participants can identify rationale for the changes 2.30 pm Break Provided coffee, juice, cookies

Agenda 2.45 pm Final session (1h15) Participants can correctly identify the same practices for contraceptive and sexual health prevention that their child(ren) learn in schools

Agenda 4:00 pm Wrap-up Visit parking lot Introduce sibling support Single learning exercise tool ‘Older sibling’ reflects on what they would have wanted to know when they were at a certain age

Agenda 4: 40 pm Evaluation 2-minute essay question on “List the 4 most important topics you learned today?” Questionnaire on the content/process 5:00 pm Ending

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