This presentation is part of the Family Life Education Teacher Capacity Program

1. Preventing Sexually
Transmitted Diseases

2. Agenda
8:30 WELCOME
9:00 Who’s Responsible
10:35 BREAK
10:50 STI Facts and Feelings
11:40 Modeling Activities:
STI Basketball
12:10 Reflection and Evaluation
12:25 ADJOURN

3. Welcome
INTRODUCTIONS AND
OVERVIEW

4. Workshop Goals
• Increase your knowledge of sexuality
transmitted diseases other than AIDS
• Explore attitudes toward adolescent sexual
risk-taking and adult responses
• Introduce strategies for teaching about
STDs in the classroom.

5. Workshop Objectives
• Describe how widespread HIV and other STIs are and their
consequences, and describe modes of transmission, symptoms,
and some effective prevention strategies,
• Identify populations of youth at high risk of becoming
infected with HIV and other STIs,
• Demonstrate essential skills for health behavior change related
to prevention and guide student practice of these skills,
• Describe strategies for involving parents, families and others in
student learning of prevention education,
• Teach STI symptoms and prevention to students of various
cultural backgrounds, abilities, language skills, using interactive
teaching methods for prevention education, such as roleplays
or cooperative groups.

6. Introductions
• Facilitator(s)
• Staff
• Participants
– Name
– Grade/Level
– School Affiliation
– Something Unique
About Yourself

7. Working Agreement
• Maintain confidentiality • Avoid making assumptions
• Respect each other’s point of about other members of the
view; recognize that we all group
have some biases • Share responsibility for what
• Speak for yourself—use “I” gets learned today
language; take some risks to be • Ask any questions--there are no
honest dumb questions
• Be nonjudgmental; no put- • Share the time; participate as
downs; be constructive while much as possible
giving each other feedback • ELMO (Enough, lets move on)
• Listen with an open mind • Use discretion with self-
• Recognize that some conflict disclosure
can be helpful and that we • Have fun
should not always avoid it • The Vegas Rule (What happens
• Pass if you feel uncomfortable in Vegas . . .)

8. Activity
WHO’S RESPONSIBLE

9. Who’s Responsible
• Think about the characters in
the story. Rank order, from
most to least, who is
responsible for Donna getting
an STI. The characters are:
___ Donna
___ John
___ Aaron
___ Janet
___ Ms. Jones
___ Dad
___ Stacy

10. Activity
STI FACTS AND FEELINGS

11. STI Facts and Feelings
• You will be divided into small groups. Each small group will
have a set of Feeling Questions and a set of Fact Questions.
• Members of each group will take turns rolling the dice (or
flipping a coin) to determine whether they answer a Fact or
Feeling Question.
– Odds (or tails) = Fact Question; Evens (or heads) = Feeling
Question.
• The Feeling Questions have no right or wrong answers;
however, Fact Questions do have a right answer, which I can
provide if any group is unsure.
• If you draw a question you can't answer or don't want to try
answering, you can always put it back in the pile and draw
another one.
• Continue to take turns answering questions until I call "time."

12. Roll the Dice!

13. Discussion Questions
• How did the discussion go in your small
group?
• Which questions created the most
discussion? Tell us about some of the
themes that came up?
• How do you think a group of adolescents
would respond?
• Would you use this activity?

14. Activity
MODELING ACTIVITIES: STI
BASKETBALL

15. STI Basketball
• Each team will draw a statement about STIs
from the container. The team must decide
whether the statement is true or false.
• If the team is correct, it scores two points. If
the team members can explain why the answer
is correct, they get another point, like the
extra point for a "free throw."
• If the team cannot give a correct explanation
for its answer, another team can try for the
extra point on that question.
• The team with the most points wins.

16. Play Ball!

17. Questions and Evaluations