This book provides an overview essential for a proper understanding of effective approaches to PSHE education in secondary education and the valuable role it can play in promoting the health and wellbeing of adolescents.
Coverage includes:
- The importance and scope of PSHE education
- The theory and research evidence for effective practice in the secondary school
- School structures which support effective teaching and learning in PSHE education
- Assessment for, and of, learning in PSHE education
- The role of visiting experts in PSHE education
- Overlaps with pastoral and therapeutic support
Innehållsförteckning
Introduction
Part 1
Understanding adolescent development
Theory, evidence and practical approaches to effective teaching and learning in PSHE education
The organisation of PSHE education in the curriculum
Starting ′where young people are′: planning learning in PSHE education
Assessment learning in PSHE education
Part 2
Understanding risk during adolescence
Understanding the role of PSHE in promoting mental health and emotional wellbeing
Understanding drug education within PSHE education
Understanding relationships and sex education (RSE) within PSHE education
Economic wellbeing and PSHE education
Part 3
PSHE education and school policy matters
Understanding the relationship between PSHE education, pastoral care and therapeutic interventions
Selecting PSHE education teaching material and resources and the effective use of visitors to the classroom
Part 4
Appendix 1: Using story, ‘case studies’ and timeline in PSHE education
Appendix 2: Summary of organisational models for the teaching of PSHE education
Appendix 3: Baseline assessment tools
Appendix 4: Key data on adolescence in 2015
Om författaren
Starting his career as an art and mathematics teacher working in both primary and secondary schools in north London, Nick Boddington joined the Advisory Service where he specialised in the teaching of sensitive issues including SRE, HIV, bullying and drug education. One of the first Ofsted Inspectors to be trained, he left the Advisory Service as Lead Senior Adviser for Children’s Wellbeing for Essex to take up his current position as Subject Lead with the national PSHE Association. Nick is committed to a model of PSHE that places children’s individual and unique understanding of their world and their own enquiry at the centre of learning. He is co-author of a number of Government documents, academic texts and teaching resources committed to improving the quality of PSHE education. He has spent over 25 years championing the importance of placing high quality PSHE at the centre of the school curriculum.