List various activities that should be undertaken in schools as a Part of health and hygiene programme

To implement skills-based health education in schools, teaching methods need to correspond to the content to be taught. A lecture, for instance, can be an effective way to increase students’ knowledge, but there are other methods that are more efficient in forming skills, attitudes and beliefs. For instance, a classroom debate

on gender stereotypes in which the teams change sides and thereby force themselves to think from different perspectives can influence formation of proper attitudes.

Some programmers and researchers found that testing students on reproductive health information encourages them to take the class more seriously. Examples of participatory teaching and learning methods for skills.

• Class discussions

• Brainstorming

• Role plays

• Small group activities

• Education games and simulation

• Case studies

• Story telling

• Debates and Dialogues

• Audio and visual activities such as arts, music, theatre, dance

• Practising life skills specific to a particular context with others, with verbal feed back

• Visits or telephonic conversation, internet communication etc. to relevant health and social support programmers, such as family planning clinics

• Reading printed instructional reference material.