1. Introduction

Lesson 10: Reflecting on the previous lessons and looking at the future

With this lesson students have almost come to the end of this course. In lesson 10 they will look back at the course and focus on the messages that were most important to them. Also they take a look at the future: what is their future dream, what steps do they need to take and who can support them? Finally they learn how to be peer educators themselves and advocate for young people’s sexual health and rights in their community.

Note: This lesson 10 consists of 2 lessons which have similar activities and follow the same outline, but target different students:

1. Lesson 10 TTC targets TTC students. It helps them to reflect on the content, but more importantly on the process of becoming a facilitator of WSWM.
2. Lesson 10 school targets students aged 12-19. It helps them to reflect on the content This is the final WSWM lesson that students aged 12 to 19 get at the end of WSWM.

As your students are teachers-to-be, they will now follow lesson 10 TTC. But it is important that they also have a look at lesson 10 school, as this is the lesson they will be facilitating when they will be WSWM facilitators of primary school children.

Core message of lesson 10 TTC, targeting students of Teacher Training Colleges (TTC)

In lesson 10a TTC students will reflect on their own process of becoming a WSWM facilitator. In the WSWM-TTC curriculum they learned about SRHR needs of young people, how to become a facilitator of Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) and how to apply the WSWM program in schools.

In lesson 10 they will reflect on this knowledge and skills:

1. SRHR messages: reflect on their lessons learned on the key SRHR messages of WSWM for young people. (see list of core messages in the hand out Core messages)
2. Future teacher: reflect on the facilitation skills used in order to define their dreams and wishes in becoming a future teacher and CSE facilitator.
3. Peer education: TTC students will learn to share their lessons learned and facilitation skills on SRHR through peer education.
4. Advocate: to advocate for CSE and young people’s sexual health needs and rights in their college and community, and how to confidently spread the word while going INTO THE WORLD!

What is the core message of lesson 10 school, targeting students from age 12-19?

1. Students will explore what it means to have the right to plan their own future and live their dreams.
2. They will discover how to optimize their talents in a future dream, so that they can live a happy and healthy life. They can do so, whether they are boys or girls, young or older students, HIV-positives or HIV-negatives or being included in what we call sexual diversity.
3. In addition, students will be challenged to reflect on The World Starts With Me-messages that have been most important to them and to define how these messages have affected their life. These messages can support them in realizing their future dreams.

What exercises will they carry out?

In three exercises students will explore what future dreams they are going to pursue. They will also discover the possible challenges in their community that might hamper that dream and how people around them might support them in making their dream come true. Furthermore, students will learn how to share lessons learned with peers through peer education, how to advocate for young people’s sexual health and rights in their community and how to confidently spread the word and go INTO THE WORLD!

2. Key Messages

1. We can all have dreams and ambitions for the future
2. They can become real if we can see the steps to making them happen – and the obstacles we may need to overcome
3. You may meet obstacles in your way of becoming a good facilitator and an advocate for SRHR for youth, but we are in this together, so we can support each other.
4. Whatever we do has an impact on other people, on our society
5. One way to help others is to be a peer educator, and to be a WSWM facilitator
6. We all have a place in the world – change starts with each of us: The World Starts with Me!

3. Key Messages(Lesson 1 - 9)

These are the most important messages on sexual and reproductive health every student and teacher needs to know, based on lesson 1-9 in WSWM.

1. Sexuality for all: The whole course centres around students’ awareness and conviction that sexuality, sexual health and sexual rights are integral, fundamental parts of human beings from birth on. Children, young people, adults and elderly people are all sexual beings, both women and men, but their sexuality and SRHR need to be addressed in an age-appropriate way by skilled educators and teachers who act as facilitators and by trained peer educators.
2. Self-esteem, personality and puberty: In this lesson we started with the significance of self-esteem. During the course of the lesson students gradually grew aware of their own personality and also learned how puberty causes their body and emotions to change. Being insecure (at times) about these changes is something most young people experience, and is therefore perfectly normal.
3. Independence and friendship: They also discovered that growing up means growing into independent, autonomous young men or women, who experience feelings of love, intimacy and sexual arousal and attraction. Friends are becoming more important, the influence of parents may become less so.
4. Open communication and respect for diversity: Students discovered the importance of open and equal communication between boys and girls (in friendships, love relationships etc.). Students looked at similarities and learned to respect each other’s wishes and limits. They learned about the different expectations society has of boys and girls and how they impact their behaviour. , In addition, they accepted the importance of treating men and women equally and that they both have the same sexual and reproductive rights.
5. Safe, consensual and enjoyable sexuality: Students considered what it means to be sexually active in a respectful, consensual, enjoyable and safe way and whether they are ready for it. They acquired the knowledge, attitudes and skills to protect themselves and their partner from unintended pregnancy, STIs, HIV. They learned how to prevent and cope with sexual harassment and abuse and how to escape and seek help for it.
6. Making own informed choices: regarding all issues discussed, students now know that they have the right to make their own informed choices, respect the rights of others.
7. Looking for support: Students know where to look for support and help on different topics: puberty, friendship, parents, love and sexuality and abuse.

Additional core messages for TTC students:

To get these messages effectively across to students, WSWM combines:

1. a logical sequence of age-appropriate issues with a
2. participatory didactic approach that is
3. rights- and evidence-based.

The facilitator is supported by the teacher manual and a training beforehand to effectively apply:

1. a positive and non-judgmental facilitation - regarding young people and sexuality - which goes beyond being only problem oriented and which avoids imposing teachers’ own personal norms on students by
2. empowering students in making own decisions about their sexuality and SR Health
3. in a safe and confidential atmosphere

This Lesson 10 TTC aims to help TTC students reflect on these pedagogical and didactic principles and find out how they will become a student-centred teacher and a CSE facilitator whom can help their students’ dreams come true.

4. Lesson Aims

1. TTC students recall their most important lessons learned from WSWM regarding both the SRHR content and facilitation skills. They reflect on how these lessons have affected their current thinking about teaching, becoming a skilled CSE facilitator, and possibly affecting their personal life.
2. TTC students visualize their potential of becoming a skilled CSE facilitator, learn about the opportunities it will give them, the challenges they might face and know who can help them realize this potential.
3. TTC students reflect on the key principles of facilitation and the key SRHR messages for students (aged 12-19) and are able to share them with their fellow students.
4. TTC students own the guidelines for effective facilitation and those for peer education and know how to handle them.
5. TTC students learn to give their critical opinion about the need for CSE regarding sexual and reproductive health issues of young people and know strategies to advocate for CSE and take action to help improve young people’s SRHR in Malawi.

The most important concepts being discussed in this lesson are:

1. Peer education
2. Advocating for sexual rights of young people
3. Teachers’ facilitation skills

Please find a detailed description of these, and a lot of other concepts, in the glossary.