Full Description
This thought-provoking text stems from the voices of young people in secondary schools, and what they want from their PSHE education. The book focuses on personal development, an aspect of PSHE that is often side-lined in favour of a more topic-based approach, to consider how PSHE lessons can help young people build the knowledge, skills, and character necessary to navigate a fast-changing world.
Informed by feedback collected from over 10,000 students on their experiences of PSHE and personal development education, chapters provide suggestions for moving towards solutions that will help teachers improve provision in what is often a tricky topic to teach. The book discusses how the fast-paced changes in today's world make PSHE particularly difficult to teach and offers advice and guidance on what best practice looks like in such an ever-moving field, along with signposts to further reading and supporting lesson plans.
With activities in each chapter to build knowledge and develop skills which students will find useful throughout school and into future study and employment, this book is essential reading for any teacher looking for further guidance in the secondary PSHE classroom.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1: PSHE challenges and health ambitions
Chapter 2: Don't keep telling us what we already know - Monitoring progress in PSHE
Chapter 3: Not another video, worksheet, quiz... Injecting variety into PSHE lessons
Chapter 4: We are uniquely transient. A brief introduction to the amazing teenage brain
Chapter 5: If you don't take this seriously, why should I? The importance of role models
Chapter 6: So, what has this got to do with me? The importance of relevance in PSHE
Chapter 7: Spare me the lecture! Effective pedagogy in PSHE
Chapter 8: This is so embarrassing! Managing student and staff embarrassment in PSHE
Chapter 9: Give us life skills! Providing the skills students want and need.
Chapter 10: Stop your bucket from overflowing. Teacher wellbeing.
References
Index
