Senior Project: Modernizing sex-education to fit the needs of adolescents
April 7, 2021
Priority population:
New York City public high school eleventh and twelfth-grade students
Methods:
- Development and moderating of an Instagram social network feed, @letstalkaboutsexednyc, that also has links to services, this Instagram will normalize an inclusive perspective on relationships from an accessible, youth- appealing, and accurate resource- this will serve as an alternative “youth toolkit”
- A broad educator toolkit to expand teachers skills and provide a common language for discussing issues with adolescents
- Development and dissemination of free or low cost inclusive social, sexual, and reproductive resources
- A module that proposes integrating ideas into eleventh and twelfth-grade sexuality education following Bloom’s taxonomy framework with both passive and active learning activities, in lesson plan methods 1 and 2 will be mentioned through interactive content. This module will be presented in advisory on 3/5/2021.
External work for my project to follow along:
Instagram Account: Student Guide @letstalkaboutsexednyc
@letstalkaboutsexed Data From Polls