Connect-ed Issue 44 November 2018 | Page 16

Clare Statovci

Geography, Citizenship and Life Skills Teacher

Teaching Fellow, Global Citizenship & PSHE

The British International School Bratislava

Short answer, everyone. You probably do some form of citizenship, personal, social and health education teaching every day. In school you might help sort out friend problems between students. You might ask students to say please and thank you. At home you might listen to your friend after they have had something bad happen and you support them through it. Reading the news and finding out about who has just been elected in as prime minister is CPSHE, even reading up on what Brexit means. This is all CPSHE. As all CPSHE is, is supporting and educating students so they understand some of the issues that they will face in the future and giving them the skills to cope.

Really, it is not who can teach CPSHE, but whether or not they have the resources to do so. Emotionally you are already ready, as you can empathize with students and help them understand what is going on in their lives, and what will go on in the future.

Who can teach or

should be teaching CPSHE?

For SOWs, marking guides, and other resources, have a look on NAU in the PSHE area, where you can find SOWs and help guides, useful websites and so on.