Skills-Based Health Education Intermediate Training Series
The Skills-Based Health Education Intermediate Training Series offers health educators and administrators the opportunity to learn more about issues and topics that commonly affect the health education classroom and real-world strategies to solve challenges and teach with confidence. Through interactive, two-hour, virtual trainings, participants will build the knowledge, skills, and efficacy to create safe and engaging learning environments in their health education classroom.
Please note: Purchasing this product will give you one seat to attend one of the topics below, which you will register for after purchase. If you are interested in attending multiple topics, you will need to purchase multiple seats. Not all topics will be available at all times, see the calendar for our current offerings!
Topics in the Intermediate Training Series include:
Preparing students to safely intervene starts with effective instruction. In this interactive training, participants will explore best practices for teaching bystander intervention, identify barriers that can make it difficult for students to take action, and practice facilitating discussions with realistic classroom scenarios. Participants will leave with practical strategies to help students build knowledge and confidence to intervene safely.
Messages we receive about health topics can be confusing for young people to navigate. In particular, messages about food and nutrition can help young people develop a healthy relationship with food, but they can also contribute to harmful beliefs and behaviors. In this interactive training, we will examine some of the ways food is talked about in the media, learn the dangers of “food moralizing,” and rethink our own lessons and language to set our students up with the tools they need to have a positive relationship with food.
Stigma surrounding mental health can have a significant impact on students' well-being and their willingness to seek support. Building mental health literacy helps students recognize signs of mental health challenges, reduce stigma, and connect with appropriate resources. In this training, participants will explore the fundamentals of mental health stigma and its impact on student well-being. They will learn practical strategies for fostering mental health literacy in the classroom and apply those strategies to realistic classroom scenarios. By the end of the training, participants will be better prepared to create a more supportive learning environment and help students access the resources they need to support their mental well-being.
Sexual orientation and gender identity come up in classrooms in the examples we use during class, how we refer to our students, and the language we use every day. Not being inclusive can make students feel unseen and unsupported. The stakes are even higher in the health education classroom, as many topics discussed in health may have different impacts on LGBTQ+ students or require information that reflects the experiences and needs of LGBTQ+ students. In this training, participants will learn more about the importance of being LGBTQ+ inclusive in the health education classroom, identify strategies and practices that foster inclusive classrooms, and model being inclusive through interactive activities.
This two-hour virtual training equips educators and youth-serving professionals with the knowledge and confidence to teach birth control content to middle and high school students. Participants will leave with a clear understanding of the full range of contraceptive methods, practical language for answering student questions, and concrete strategies for facilitating these conversations.
This interactive training equips educators and youth-serving professionals with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to address the way race comes up in health education in ways that are developmentally appropriate, culturally responsive, and grounded in equity. Participants will explore practical strategies and receive tools to navigate difficult conversations, address bias, and create more inclusive, affirming classroom environments.
Teaching about substance use goes far beyond facts and statistics. In this interactive training, educators will focus on how values, students' lived experiences, and broader systems shape how substance use shows up in the classroom. Participants will learn strategies for discussing substance use in the classroom and practice handling student questions and values around drugs, alcohol, vaping, and more.
Role-playing can be a powerful teaching tool. It allows students to develop and practice skills in a safe environment before needing those skills in the real world. Role-playing activities can also be a challenge for health educators to facilitate. Teachers may face hesitant or embarrassed students, giggling and distractions, or even total refusal to participate. In this training, participants will learn tips for making role-playing easier for both students and facilitators and practice thinking through common role-play challenges and their solutions.
Tobacco companies continue to devise new ways to get people hooked on nicotine. Vapes and e-cigarettes have gained popularity, and smokeless tobacco products like nicotine pouches offer yet another way for young people to use nicotine. As health educators, it can be difficult to keep up with the changing trends and make sure our lessons provide young people with the tools they need to make safe and healthy choices. In this interactive training, participants will learn effective strategies for teaching about vaping and other newer forms of nicotine use and practice handling difficult scenarios related to vaping and quitting support.
All trainings align with ETR’s distributive learning process, an interactive experience that takes place over time. Core to this research-based approach is the acquisition of knowledge and development of skills, followed by the implementation of the program and educator self-reflection. During this process, ETR trainers engage learners through teaching strategies, interactive activities, modeling, and follow-up support.
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