What Students Want from their PSHE in Secondary School

Informed by the voices of young people, this book provides advice and activities to build knowledge and develop skills which students will find useful throughout school and into future study and employment. It is essential reading for any teacher looking for further guidance in the secondary PSHE classroom.

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.

Autorentext

Angela Milliken-Tull has over 25 years' experience working in education and public health. She has worked in the secondary and university sector and is a public health specialist. She has held regional and national roles developing a range of training programmes and resources and is committed to health improvement through effective education delivered by confident, empowered teachers. Angela is the Director and Co-Founder of Chameleon PDE.

Inhalt

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