AEP Workshops are designed under the guidance of Ministry of Human Development by a panel of extremely reputed educators, psychologists and child welfare experts with enormous experience in all fields related to holistic adolescence education and life skills development. NCRTE is the enabling body for this for CBSE schools, but the program is yet to be launched formally in many parts of the country.
The Program is designed as a series of lifeskills development workshops developed around very progressive knowledge transaction methods, like group discussions, role plays, debates, games etc. This unconventional approach helps in communicating effectively with adolescents and to break through initial inhibitions they may have towards communicating effectively about their lives and concerns.
- Adolescence Education Program is an educational intervention designed to provide information and skills to address concerns of adolescents;
- AEP enables young persons to be equipped with accurate information, knowledge and skills in the content areas of the process of growing up, prevention of HIV/AIDS and prevention of substance abuse.
- Adolescence Education Programme is focused on the needs and concerns that are faced during adolescence.
- These elements are yet to be adequately reflected in the school curriculum.
- This Programme aims at facilitating the process of comprehensive integration of these needs and concerns in the school education curriculum and teacher education system.
- to empower adolescent learners to have knowledge of their needs and concerns related to the period of adolescence.
- develop in them life skills that will enable them to practice informed and responsible behavior.
The workshops are a total of 12 – 16 hours and are based on the following curriculum:
Adolescence Education Program
Curriculum:
* Establishing and Maintaining Positive and Responsible Relationships
* Understanding Adolescence
* Understanding and Challenging Stereotypes and Discrimination
* Understanding and Reporting Abuse and Violations
* HIV and AIDS: Prevalence
* HIV transmission and prevention
* Testing, counseling and confidentiality
* Understanding Substance/Drug Abuse
* Causes and Consequences of Substance/Drug Abuse
* Protection from Substance/Drug Abuse
The first of such workshops would be conducted by Raising Our Voices (ROV) on the 10th to 12 of April, 2013 from 10am to 4 pm. It will be conducted as 2-3 hr modules broken up by lunch and refreshment.
ROV has approached some schools to help them conduct such a program as part of their in school curriculum as the best way to reach maximum number of children with such information and development workshops would be possible only once schools come on board. We hope to have positive responses for the same.
Raising Our Voices 