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Ashley Walker Are sex education teachers getting the proper training to teach students about sex education?

Learning about sexuality from the Internet by Wilson

"While most schools have programs in health and HIV/AIDS education, which includes some sexuality education, content is often weak and incomplete. So American teens who fail to get the information they need from health education courses, or from conversations with parents and peers, are accessing the Internet, where they can get expert answers to their questions while maintaining their anonymity." (Wilson, 60) This is a major concern that students have no where to go besides the internet. This is a problem because the site that they visit may not be creditable. Students will turn to the internet because teachers are not fully qualified to teach the course of sex education. Most are not receiving the proper training or teach their own personal bias.

Wilson, S. N. (2001). Learning about Sexuality from The Internet. //Independent School //, 60(2), 50. Retrieved from EBSCO//host //.

Speaking Each Others Language on Sexuality by K. Evans

Evans describer her experiences as a peer educator in the program Peer Advocates. This is when peers are properly trained to run workshops with teenagers their age to teach about sex. They use new exciting tactics so they exercises stick with the teenagers. These tactics are as follows games, role plays, informative discussions, information in newsletters. The reason that this program was created was because students were not getting the full education on sex that was needed. Also, having students teach it made learning for the teenagers more relatable then a 60 year old gym teacher.

Evans, K. J. (1999). Speaking Each Other's Language on Sexuality. //Social Policy //, 30(1), 32. Retrieved from EBSCO//host //.

Todays Topic: Sex Education by Jayson  "Some parents say they count on schools to supplement what they teach their children at home. Marie Kittredge of Cleveland, a mother of four, says her two older kids went through eighth grade in public school, where some sex education was offered." (Jayson, 4) This is completely evident to the concern that students are not getting the education that they need about sex. Parents rely on the school and teachers rely on the parents, this ends up being a cycle that does not cure anything. In the quotation above it says that Marie's children received some education, this should not be a concern of a parents that their children are not getting a full education.

Jayson, S. (2008, September 8). Todays Topic: Sex Education. //USA Today//, p. 4d.

School-Based Sexuality Education: The Issues and Challenges by Donovan

" The debates over program content and the proliferation of local controversies have heightened teachers' long-standing concern that parents and school officials do not support their efforts to provide sexuality education. As a result, they fear that discussion of controversial topics-masturbation, sexual orientation, abortion and, increasingly, contraception-could jeopardize their careers, according to many sex education proponents." (Donovan, 35) This is when the sex educators bias comes in. The school might have provided a course outline that mapped out what the teacher should be teaching the students but most find the topics very controversial and may stray away from the facts. Also, teachers may be afraid of controversy in the classroom. One student may find what they are teaching completely outrageous or the lesson might cause an outburst in class from the student.

Normally sex education teachers are recommend to attend one workshop on sex education. This is not nearly enough because teachers go to school for years and years to receive a degree so they can teach history for example when sex education may be more prevalent in a students life. "For example, only 9% of health education certification programs require students to take a course in sexuality education methodology, and none requires a course on HIV and AIDS education methods" (Donovan, 38) Teachers take on the role that they will be teaching students about sex education but they do not know how to teach it and what exactly to teach. Only 6 states require training, The people to blame for this is each state not requiring teachers to have a certain degree or go through training. The topic of sex education is not be taken seriously in most schools when it needs to be. Also, if a teacher was trained at one time on the topic then they should be continuously going through program development to renew their education.

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