Final Reflection

Presentation Reflection

I was disappointed that I was unable to present my lesson plan, even to a pretend audience. As stated in my previous blog, I think it would have been helpful to be able to view myself and determine what went well and what did not go well for future lesson plans or presentations for my actual targeted audience.  I hope to be able to utilize this lesson plan in the future to assist with preventing teenage pregnancy.

Final Reflection

I really enjoyed keeping a blog this semester.  This allowed me to share my thoughts and has encouraged me to dig deeper about a topic that I am passionate about.  In order to reduce teenage pregnancy, it all begins with sexual education.  Effective comprehensive sexuality education programs that are age, gender, and culturally appropriate should be implemented in schools to not only prevent teenage pregnancy, but to reduce and prevent sexually transmitted diseases and abortions in the United States.  So many of my friends in high school became pregnant as a teenager, and I do not believe that sexual health was addressed as aggressively as it should have.  This is definitely something that I believe parents would have to jump on board of first.  I also believe that parents should be the ones to have the sex talk with their children first.  I hope you all have learned something from my blog to assist in preventing teenage pregnancy.  I am thankful to be able to share something that I have so much interest in.

Thank you for your comments and thoughts throughout this semester!

Keshia

Teenage Pregnancy: A Health Education Strategy Presentation

Teens are at highest risk of unplanned pregnancies, with almost 300,000 births among teenagers aged 15-19 years.  There are multiple complications associated with teenage pregnancy.  Higher rates of illness and death for both mother and child are associated with teenage pregnancy.  The younger a teenage mother is below the age of 20, the higher the risk of her child dying during their first year of life.  Teenage mothers are more likely to have unhealthy lifestyle habits, and because of this it places their child at higher risk for low birth weight, developmental problems, inadequate growth, infection, or chemical dependence.  Girls born to teen mothers are more likely to become teenage mothers themselves, and boys born to teen mothers have a higher than average rate of being arrested and jailed.

Teenage mothers are about 2 years behind their age group in completing their education.  Teenage pregnancy is a significant factor that contributes to high school dropout rates among girls, with about 50% of teenage mothers received a high school diploma by 22 years of age versus approximately 90% of women who had not given birth during adolescence.  Children of teenage mothers are more likely to drop out of high school and have lower school achievement, have more health problems, be incarcerated during teenage years, face unemployment as a young adult, and give birth as a teenager.

Goal

The goal of the WAIT to be a Parent program is to provide the following for the high school students with:

• An understanding of sexual health to reduce unintended pregnancy and teenage pregnancy
• Increased knowledge of abstinence and contraception use

Objectives

• 75% of the students will be able to identify the short term and long term consequences of teenagers having babies
• 75% of the students will be able to identify the responsibilities associated with parenthood (being pregnant and having a newborn)
• 75% of students will be able to identify the assistance available in their community for learning more about teenage pregnancy, and for teenagers who become pregnant 
• Students will have a higher confidence level when it comes to delaying sex or using contraception to prevent unintended pregnancy and teenage pregnancy
• 100% of students will provide feedback from lesson evaluation 

Here is a copy of the Strategy Presentation and there is also a copy of the Lesson Plan

Presentation Reflection

Unfortunately, I was unable to present my presentation to my targeted group or a group pretending to be my targeted group.  Yesterday, I had set up a meeting with a few of my co-workers to be my audience, but due to the high load of work this week, I was unable to complete my presentation, thus, unable to upload a video.  I would have loved to have the opportunity to present my lesson plan about this topic that I am passionate about. I would have been helpful to be able to view myself and determine what went well and what did no go well.