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Prescribed Learning Outcomes
Suggested Instructional Strategies
Suggested Assessment Strategies
Recommended Learning Resources

It is expected that students will:

• describe the evolving nature of roles and responsibilities within families
• identify a variety of factors that influence family relationships
• identify and demonstrate skills to enhance communication with family members
• evaluate the impact of peer, mass media, and social influences on decision making in their personal relationships
• outline the physical, social, and emotional changes associated with puberty

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SUGGESTED INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES

• Using case studies of hypothetical families from different cultures, have students, individually or in groups, identify the responsibilities of each family member in one case study. Ask each student to create a chart illustrating the privileges and responsibilities of each member in a given family. Ask students to:
  • compare their charts, noting gender and age differences
  • describe how families could assign responsibilities to different members
  • list factors contributing to any imbalance in distribution of family responsibilities
  • predict how existing responsibilities could change over time
• Suggest that students create Venn diagrams illustrating the overlapping needs of two people in a variety of given relationships (e.g., parent-teenager).
• Review factors that influence personal decision making. Have students in small groups develop case studies involving peers, siblings, parents, or others trying to influence a teenager's actions. Then ask groups to review one another's case studies and propose action plans for the teenagers to follow. Have them discuss each proposal to determine the factors influencing the action or decision taken.
• Provide a selection of advertisements and discuss with students the ways in which men, women, and children are depicted.
• Have students review current recommended resources dealing with changes during adolescence and then discuss related issues. Invite members of the local community to act as guest speakers, provide resources, or serve as facilitators during discussions.
• Ask students to collect and display cartoons that illustrate positive, caring communication between various family members, including siblings and grandparents.
• Invite students to role-play situations in which they present their views to family members in a respectful but assertive manner. Have them evaluate the effectiveness of the messages when passive or aggressive communication is substituted in each role play.

• When students analyse roles, responsibilities, and factors that affect relationships in families (e.g., examining models from different cultures, using case studies of hypothetical families), look for evidence that they are able to:
  • identify factors that affect roles and responsibilities and cause them to change over time
  • identify similarities and differences in roles and responsibilities in different contexts and cultures, providing details and examples
  • outline factors that influence relationships between various family members (e.g., parent and child, siblings, extended family members)
  • show respect for cultural and other variations
• After students have engaged in activities to identify and demonstrate skills that enhance family communication, have them work in pairs or small groups to present role plays demonstrating what they have learned. Invite the audience to:
  • identify the communication skills and strategies demonstrated
  • assess the effectiveness of the skills and strategies used
  • suggest alternatives
• When students analyse case studies that involve personal decision making and propose action plans, look for evidence that they are able to:
  • identify potential peer, mass media, and social influences
  • explain under what circumstances each of these would be most and least powerful
  • suggest an effective decision-making strategy for each situation
• To check on students' understanding of the changes associated with puberty, have them create charts in their notebooks that outline physical, emotional, and social changes. Check their work to see that information about each area of growth and development is accurate and complete.

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