One curricula beS.E.T. from many
Hi everyone!
This past week I’ve looked deeper into each country from the previous post and decided which parts from each I will be focusing on and how I’ll be including my own ideas in.
The curriculum will be spreading from elementary uptil high school.
In elementary the curriculum would include topics seen in Australia and Norway’s curriculum (puberty, personal space/safety, and communication).
Middle school would be focused on Australia’s curriculum of mental health and basic biology.
High school would be reflective of how Japan and China teach topics of STIs , contraceptives, healthy attitudes, and gender identity.
As you can see, a bulk of the content would be taught in high school and that’s simply due to how the age would pertain to much of what sex ed covers.
When putting the curriculum together I plan on putting a “Age group recommended” with reasoning for why that age makes sense for that topic. For example, teaching puberty to 8 year olds may not make the most sense but recently children have been going through puberty a lot earlier than normally expected, thus it’s important, even if just for a few kids, that they know what their bodies are going through.
Jung Yun said that “if you think too much, you won’t ever accomplish anything” and I now understand the meaning behind his words. Doing so much for this project showed me the importance of not worrying about one tiny mistake, not everything will be as you wanted it to but in the end it’ll work out. This following week I will be creating the curriculum and plan on having the paper version done by my next post!
Thank you for reading!
- Koushita
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