Let's Talk About Sexual Education – An Introduction to Teaching Sexual Education at Primary Schools

Zielsetzung / Objectifs

Knowledge
The participants will know about:
- the Planning Familial, its fields of activity, services as well as the legal situation regarding contraception & pregnancy
- the definitions of sexuality and sexual education
- the Standards for sexual education in Europe (age-appropriate and knowledge-based sexual education according to the WHO Regional Office for Europe and BZgA)
- childhood sexual development
- methods on how to teach sexual education in Primary schools (pedagogical approaches to topics such as : puberty / diversity – sexual identity and orientation / saying NO – self-assertion / good and bad secrets / making children strong).

Know-how
The participants will be able to:
- adopt the perspective of the target group and adequately discuss topics relating to love, sexuality, puberty and prevention
- develop and use target group-orientated language
- recognize existing boundaries and break down taboos
- contextualize the importance of their own experiences
- have the confidence to integrate sexual education into everyday professional life
- ensure to work with parents.

Posture
The participants will:
- reflect on their own boundaries and assessments regarding the topic of sexual education
- adopt a language, which is gender-, age- and development appropriate and free of personal judgement
- act according to the principle "Every child, every young person has the right to an age-appropriate answer to their question".

Inhalt / Contenu

- Methods workshop
- practical exercises and worksheets
- illustrative materials – Paomi
- method boxes
- list with further partners in the field of sexual and emotional education
- booklist.

Arbeitsformen / Approche méthodologique

- Exchange
- discussion round
- methods.

Referent, Referentin / Formateur, formatrice

Katrin Zengerling, chargée d'éducation sexuelle et affectives du Planning Familial
Sandra Michely, chargée d'éducation sexuelle et affectives du Planning Familial