ED2623 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Goal Setting, Australian Curriculum, Peer Pressure
Health and Physical Education - Lecture 3 - Week 3
School Drug Education
Drug Education Strategies
- There are many strategies that are employed to assist in the teaching of drug education.
- There are some that are used specifically in the Early childhood area and others can be used across the
curriculum
Drug Education is
“about giving children and young people accurate information and opportunities to practice skills such as
decision making so they can make informed decisions and stay safer “ SDERA
Why Drug Education in Schools?
- Reinforce messages everyday - Influential agency
- giving students knowledge and skills
- Guidance
- Peer pressure
How was our drug education approach developed?
- WA task force on Drug abuse (1995).
- One of the recommendations was that drug education be Taught in all schools. SDEP
- Based on Health Promoting Schools framework
- Multifaceted
- Aims to provide effective drug education in all WA schools
The SDEP Strategic Plan
- On going PD for School Staff
- Curriculum Support materials (Challenges and Choices
- School Drug Policy, Parent and Community Participation
- Monitoring and evaluation of Drug Education programs
Why Resilience Approach to Drug Education?
- Complex concept - Ability to bounce back
- Coping well with the ups and downs of life or being resistant to stress may have difference meanings
from culture to culture
- Strengthening social competencies, emotional intelligence and resilience in young people has been
linked to the prevention of substance abuse, violence, bullying and suicide, as well as academic and life
success
Principles of Best Practice
- Choose resources and approaches that support Long Term Benefit
- Our approach is through Social Inoculation
- Prevention of unhealthy behaviours before they occur - Curriculum relates resources
- 12 principles of Best Practice to ensure this
- Provide a framework to help make decisions about the selection, design and implementation of drug use
prevention programs for school students.
- Your quality control
- Encourages the use of programs that have medium or long term drug education outcomes
- Choose resources that
- Support curriculum contexts
- Are ongoing over the years
- readily available
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Document Summary
Health and physical education - lecture 3 - week 3. There are many strategies that are employed to assist in the teaching of drug education. There are some that are used specifically in the early childhood area and others can be used across the curriculum. About giving children and young people accurate information and opportunities to practice skills such as decision making so they can make informed decisions and stay safer sdera. Wa task force on drug abuse (1995). One of the recommendations was that drug education be taught in all schools. Aims to provide effective drug education in all wa schools. School drug policy, parent and community participation. Monitoring and evaluation of drug education programs. Complex concept - ability to bounce back. Coping well with the ups and downs of life or being resistant to stress may have difference meanings from culture to culture.
