PSHE Education: Helping Children Navigate a Complex World (FutureLearn)

Offered by PSHE Association,
PSHE Education: Helping Children Navigate a Complex World (FutureLearn)

Discover how to plan your own PSHE lesson and upskill in the basic good practice of PSHE education pedagogy. Explore how to provide safe and effective PSHE education. Personal, social, health, and economic (PSHE) education is a subject that usually covers aspects of health and sexual relationships. Depending on how it is taught, it can have a significant impact on pupils, and for nations as a whole.

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On this course, you’ll learn how PSHE education has developed globally, and how it impacts on your pupils.
You’ll learn how to plan your own PSHE lesson with confidence, now that aspects of PSHE education have become statutory in England – although the research you will examine is applicable to teachers internationally.

Syllabus

Week 1: What is PSHE education?
Week 2: How can we teach PSHE education safely?
Week 3: How can we teach PSHE education effectively?

Learning on this course
You can take this self-guided course and learn at your own pace. On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.

What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

  • explain how PSHE education has developed globally and over time
  • explore the impact of PSHE education, for all young people and for your pupils
  • explain core evidence-based principles of safe and effective PSHE education
  • design your own PSHE lesson in line with safe and effective practice
  • collaborate with other PSHE professionals around the world

Who is the course for?
This course is targeted at PSHE teachers in England, or teachers of any aspect of health or relationships and sex education around the world.
In particular, this course will support teachers who have not received any face-to-face training for PSHE education or would like to develop professionally in PSHE education.

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