PESH 431 - Principles of Sexual Health Education

Description:
Principles and content for sex education in school and community settings. Formerly HED 431, students may not receive credit for both.

Prerequisites:
Prerequisite: by permission.

Credits: (3)

Learner Outcomes, Activities and Assessments

Learner Outcome	Activity (optional)	Assessment
Students will describe the roles of familial and societal factors on human sexuality and reproduction.		Written Exams and reflection paper. The presentation will be based on a rubric.
Students will identify and discuss the importance of medically accurate, fact-based sexuality education.		Written Exams.
Students will identify the importance of human sexuality within the broader context of health.		Discussions and Reflection Paper. All assessments will be based on a rubric.
Students will be able to identify and discuss HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.		Students will be able to identify and discuss HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.
Students will be able to describe the anatomy and physiology of the male and female reproductive systems.		Written Exams.
The student will demonstrate best practices for teaching exemplary sexual health education.	Students will be assigned mini-presentations to be conducted to their peers.	A rubric will be utilized to grade the individual mini-presentation regarding the implementation of the best practices teaching model.
Students will integrate the national sexuality education standards into health lesson & unit plans.	Students will create eight skills-based behavioral objectives that are the foundational components of health lesson and unit plans based on the National Sexual Health Education Standards.	A scoring guide and/or rubric will be utilized to assess if students properly created skill behavioral objectives into all of the unit plans taught to K-12 students throughout the quarter.
Students will employ a 3-lesson, pre-prepared sexuality health education curricula to K-12 students.	Utilizing provided medically accurate health education curricula, candidates will teach a total of one, 3-lesson units over the course of the quarter.	Written self-reflection submissions based upon teaching episode recall for all twelve teaching experiences.