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Facilitating Sex Ed
Description: 

Our Spark*ED online sex educator courses focus on the information, skills, and theory required to deliver impactful and inclusive sex education. Our philosophy towards sex education is at the heart of the Spark*ED curriculum and all course materials have been created with a social justice and racial equity lens and incorporate the latest information and research in the fields of of sexual health, gender, adolescent development, learning styles, and behavioral change. Each course has been reviewed by content matter experts, including medical professionals, trainers, classroom teachers, public health workers, and researchers.

This course set the basic foundation for teaching impactful, inclusive sex education.  During this six-session, 12-hour virtual instructor-led training you’ll learn to teach through that lens of social justice and racial equity concentrated in medically accurate, trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and LGBT+ inclusive sex education. We’ll concentrate on the skills you’ll need to take your work to the classroom and community. You’ll even get hands-on virtual experience, practicing your sex ed facilitation skills in the Advocates for Youth Virtual Classroom followed by a coaching session to allow you to practice the skills you learn in a low-stakes environment with virtual avatar students. After taking the course you will be able to:

  • Identify what makes exemplary sex education
  • Understand the importance of not sharing your values and setting boundaries
  • Address bias and stigma in sex ed
  • Manage participant disclosure
  • Answer sex ed related questions

*Prerequisite - Completion of the Spark*ED Teaching Sexuality self-paced course.

Topic(s): 
Conscious and unconscious bias about race, ethnicity, and culture disclosure
Creating an inclusive and affirming learning environment
Disclosure
Effective teaching strategies
Racial and reproductive justice
Responding to challenging questions
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Alabama
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New York
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Northern Mariana Islands
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Puerto Rico
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
U.S. Virgin Islands
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Age Group(s): 
Grades 6-8
Grades 9-10
Grades 11-12
Format: 
Online
16 hours
$450 (plus $200 if you haven't yet completed the self-paced course)
Indicator 1 (K-12): Describe the importance of teachers’ maintaining professional boundaries when teaching sex education.
Indicator 2 (K-12): List three factors to consider regarding personal disclosure when teaching sex education
Indicator 3 (K-12): Demonstrate how to reduce the impact of educators’ passive and/or active personal disclosure on the educational environment. (S)
Indicator 4 (K-12): Explain the roles and responsibilities of a mandated reporter.
Indicator 1 (K-12): Define racism (including individual, interpersonal, institutional, ideological, structural, and systemic), racial micro-aggressions, and reproductive justice.
Indicator 2 (K-12): Name three sexual health inequities and some of their systemic causes (e.g., African American women living with HIV have expressed mistrust toward healthcare professionals, in part, as a result of systemic racism).
Indicator 3 (K-12): Describe three ways power, privilege, prejudice, discrimination, and stereotypes related to age, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, socio-economic status, immigration status, and/or physical or intellectual ability can impact sexual health and reproductive justice.
Indicator 4 (K-12): Describe three effective response strategies when a student or school community member has been hurt or wronged by bias.
Indicator 5 (K-12): Describe three strategies educators can use to acknowledge and proactively work to mitigate the impact of bias on their students’ sexual health and multiple, intersecting identities.
Indicator 1 (K-12): Demonstrate three techniques to create an inclusive and affirming learning environment. (S)
Indicators
Sex Education In Schools Indicators: 
Indicator 1 (K-12): Describe three health (e.g. physical, social and/or emotional) and/or academic benefits of sex education for young people
Conscious and unconscious bias about race, ethnicity, and culture Indicators: 
Indicator 1 (K-12): Define conscious and unconscious bias and explain how they could influence one’s teaching of sex education.
Indicator 3 (K-12): Explain how an educator’s personal beliefs about racial and reproductive justice could influence their teaching of sex education.
Indicator 4 (K-12): Describe three strategies to reduce the impact of conscious and unconscious bias and enhance cross-cultural interactions in the classroom when teaching sex education.
Indicator 1 (K-12): Demonstrate the ability to build rapport with students. (S)
Indicator 3 (K-12): Explain the differences between positive vs. shaming approaches to teaching sex education.
Indicator 5 (K-12): Describe three effective strategies for practicing skills with students.
Indicator 1 (K-12): Explain three reasons why it is important to respond to every question students ask when teaching sex education.
Indicator 2 (K-12): Demonstrate the ability to effectively respond to three different types of challenging questions. (S)
Indicator 4 (K-12): Identify three youth-friendly resources to assist survivors of sexual assault, abuse, incest, or domestic violence.
Indicator 7 (K-12): Explain the impact of childhood trauma on the decision-making and sexual health of students.