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Show 17 reaches sqhool age, he's in you hanle him thee (Sandson, he When review we trouble, 1970, p. speak of educating parents of qualifioations important subject. teachers (During the to matter how no 72). should also we teach this summer of all 1970 there were \ some forty colleges offering workshops from teachers, running brandnew; result to six weeks. there were only about too soon to is it one in make a sound Most in twelve education for sex workshops 1967. As evaluation of are a them. \ Where, then, question was can qualified teachers asked of be found? ikendall (1968), to )A similar wbich he answered: Teachers with the basic qualifications are there in the schools right now--teachers who are sensitive to what their students are thinking about, who are genuinely interested in helping them to live better. Such teachers have the ability really to talk with children. I mean The good teacher doesn't march with them, not to them. into the classroom and announce that premarital inter course is wrong. Instead, he asks the students what they think about it--what problems they see connected with it, and w'Qy people involve themselves in it. the students, will argue in favor of course some of But a teache r can't accomplish anything by ahu't t Lng off O{ . debate In answer SeX (Kirkendall, 1968, to the question of pp. a 82-83). teacher ( training education instructors, Kirkedall (1968) has program for this to say: A teacher who is coming into sex education for the first time needs two kinds of training. First, he has to earn the facts-how the reproductive process works, at puberty, and so on. That's relatively Far more important, the teacher has to learn some (1 say "himself," but of things about himself. course I'm talking about women as well as men.) He's got to face up to his own feelings about sex, to his own He's got to get comfortable enough with sex sexuality. stand up in front of a classroom and he can so that talk without embarrassment on a whole range of difficult what easy. happens |
