DRUG & ALCOHOL EDUCATION CONTINUED

A STRENGTHS BASED APPROACH focuses on empowering students to promote wellbeing of themselves and others. It understands and develops their abilities, rather than the traditional perspective of engaging students with a purely problem orientation and risk focus.

ACTIVITIES - WHAT COULD YOU DO?

• What the stats tell us?
• Alcohol.org.nz
• A couple of months in the news?
• Why do we binge drink?
• Scenarios (choice & consequences)

ACTIVITIES CONTD

• Hosting safe parties
• Social marketing campaigns
• Facilitating a discussion
• Helping agencies
• Links to other contexts?

WHAT IS UNIT PLANNING?

• What is a unit?
• How does it happen in schools?
• What might you be expected to do?
• Primary, junior, senior differences?
• NCEA and units?

UNIT PLANNING

• Identify your students needs
• How?
• Are there any obvious challenges we need to be aware of?
• Sensitivities related to this topic?
• Co-construction

LINKING TO THE CURRICULUM

• Underlying concepts?
• AOs
• Key competencies
• (Principles, attitudes & values, effective pedagogy

FOCUS QUESTIONS & KEY TOPICS

• Brainstorm what you want students to know?
• Teaching & Learning Guidelines exemplars

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Describes the knowledge/skill that is required
• What do I want students to know?
• What do I want students to understand?
• What do I want students to be able to do?
• Must be expressed in language students understand?

SUCCESS CRITERIA

• Describes how students will know when they have achieved the LI
• Ensures students understand the teachers criteria for judgement
• Try to involve students in the development of SC
• May require multiple SC for one LI

TEACHING & LEARNING ACTIVITIES

• Explanation of what the activity is
• Information on how to teach it
• Key teaching points
• Pick up and go (reliever)
• Equipment/resources required

ASSESSMENT

• Formative (diagnostic)
• Summative (evaluation)
• NCEA

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