Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Sex Talk
Some of you may remember that I teach a sex ed program at our local Unitarian church. We had our first "back to school" planning meeting last night, and I am the overall coordinator this year for our JR OWL team (for grade 8 and 9 students). These kids come every Sunday morning starting in Sept. until the end of April for a 27 week course. It is 1 1/2 hours each week and covers everything from values, relationship skills, masturbation and oral sex. We do it all, including giving them practise using lots of condoms.
One of the suggestions that I made last night was to re-order the curriculum, as the book has the two sessions (Sexual Harassment & Date Rape, and Recovering from Child Sexual Abuse) stuck onto the last two weeks, seemingly like an afterthought. I wanted to move them up into the middle section where we talk about healthy relationships. As well, I wanted to move two of the other sessions to the end, one called "Sexual Decisions" and the other called "Redefining Abstinence". I felt that these two sessions are really the crux of the whole course, and get the youth to think about and discuss their own safety plan in regards to the coming years.
Anyway, it looks like we are going to try this approach and see how it goes.
One of the suggestions that I made last night was to re-order the curriculum, as the book has the two sessions (Sexual Harassment & Date Rape, and Recovering from Child Sexual Abuse) stuck onto the last two weeks, seemingly like an afterthought. I wanted to move them up into the middle section where we talk about healthy relationships. As well, I wanted to move two of the other sessions to the end, one called "Sexual Decisions" and the other called "Redefining Abstinence". I felt that these two sessions are really the crux of the whole course, and get the youth to think about and discuss their own safety plan in regards to the coming years.
Anyway, it looks like we are going to try this approach and see how it goes.
