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A Classroom Guide for Conducting Adolescence Education Programme

“We must become the change we want to see”
– Mahatma Gandhi
Tips and Tools for Nodal Teachers
Guidelines for Conducting in-School Activities
There should be a maximum of 50 students (preferably 30–40) for the classroom sessions. This helps in experiential learning.
School management / principals must select separate staff (male / female teacher) for conducting Classroom Session 1 (Healthy Growing Up, Adolescent Health Issues).
In all sessions, keep a Question Box. This can be an open cardboard box if kept in the classroom. If it is kept unsupervised, then it should be a box which can be locked and has a slit opening on the lid.
Answer queries at the beginning of every session – this also serves to recapitulate the previous sessions.
Encourage students to ask questions/queries on matters pertaining to the process of growing up, STIs, HIV/AIDS, health and substance abuse– basically anything of concern to them.
Each student can write his/her question/s on a sheet of paper without mentioning his/her name.
If a name is given, and the question is very personal, then it should be tackled privately and in confidence.
Tasks of the Nodal Teachers
Before the classroom session
During the classroom session
After the classroom session
Before the Classroom Session
1. Read the relevant sections of the Reference Material before conducting the session/training programme.
2. Keep in mind your students, their cultural background, education and attitudes towards health issues.
3. Be prepared and familiar with the day’s topic for discussion, the Resource Material and other essentials.
4. In arranging the room, create some open space for the exercises and, if feasible, move desks and chairs to form a semicircular arrangement.
5. Make sure your Question Box is ready.
2. Adolescence Education Programme During the Classroom Session
1. Keep presentations to a minimum. Conduct the skills-based exercises given in the Teachers’ Workbook in the classroom/workshops.
2. Use open-ended questions to evaluate students’ Knowledge, Attitudes and Skills in different subjects (HIV/AIDS, STI, addictive drugs, healthissues etc.).