Gender and Human Sexuality Grade 8.pptx

health quarter 1 powerpoint

1. QUARTER 1: FAMILY HEALTH LESSON 1: GENDER AND HUMAN SEXUALITY

2. OBJECTIVES: Discuss sexually as an important component of one’s personality; Explain the importance and dimensions of human sexuality; Analyze the factors that effect one’s attitudes and practices related to sexuality

3. Gender and Human Sexuality Sexuality is a natural and healthy part of life. It is everything about being a male or female. It is the most important aspect in masculine or feminine identification. Sexuality involves the name given at birth, the toys played with, the clothes worn, the friends played with, the roles and responsibilities at home. Sexuality provides a sense of self-worth when sexual understanding is positive. Sexuality as an Important Component of One’s Personality

4. 🤔What to Know Sex is a major aspect of personality. It is closely related to emotional and social development and can be best understood by connecting it to the total adjustment of the individual in the family and society. The process of sexual development begins from birth to adulthood, thus, it is a continuous developmental process throughout life.

5. The purpose of gender and human sexuality education is to promote wholesome family and interpersonal relationships. It aims to provide knowledge and skills needed to establish and practice healthful behaviors. Finally, it aims to produce students who are responsible and have healthy sexuality.

6. Effective sexuality education provides culturally relevant and scientifically accurate information that includes opportunity to explore attitudes, values, and life skills to be able to make informed choices about sexuality.

7. Sexuality involves the physical, mental, social, emotional, and ethical dimensions of one’s personality.

8. Sexuality means you have to be aware of yourself better. As you grow older, you will experience a range of social, emotional, and physical changes. As these occur, you need an intensive knowledge on how to deal with your attitudes and behavior.

9. Healthy sexuality means taking high sense of responsibility for all your actions since this can affect self-esteem, decision making, and behavior.

10. SEXUALITY is best understood through the help of the people around you. Sexuality refers to your perceptions, feelings, and behaviors towards others. Sexuality towards other How you see others How you think of others How you feel about others How you love others

11. Healthy sexuality encompasses the following characteristics: SELF-LOVE Your acceptance of yourself. SELF-KNOWLEDGE Your understanding of your feelings and your character SELF-CONFIDENCE Your awareness of the things that you can do well

12. SELF-RESPECT Your regard for yourself as a worthwhile person SELF-EXPRESSION Your way of showing your individuality in expressing yourself as a man or as a woman

13. Bear in mind that learning human sexuality is important because of the following: It teaches you that giving and receiving love is a human need. It helps you appreciate your sexual identity. It makes you respect your own and other person’s body.

14. 4. It makes you experience body changes and learn how to properly manage these changes. 5. It helps you appreciate how life began. 6. It provides you with information on how to be disease-free and how to live a healthy lifestyle.

15. Gender and Human Sexuality Gender is a social concept on how men and women should think, feel, and act. It refers to femininity or masculinity of a person’s role and behavior as defined by society. Human sexuality is the quality of being male or female. It is the way in which we experience and express ourselves as sexual beings.

16. Unlocking of Words and Symbols Are you familiar with these gender symbols? Where do you usually see these?

17. Next slide is a diagram showing healthy attitudes that can influence sexual behavior. Which of these do you possess?

18. Leveling Off SELF Appreciates own body Takes responsibility for own behaviors Is knowledgeable about sexuality issues

19. PEERS Express love and intimacy in appropriate ways Have the skills to evaluate readiness for mature relationship Interact with both genders in appropriate and respectful ways Respect both genders in all aspects

20. FAMILY Communicates effectively with family Is able to express love to family members Performs duties and responsibilities at home

21. Analyze the following terms: Sex is the biological basis of being male or female. Gender is a social concept on how men and women should think, feel, and act. It refers to femininity or masculinity of a person’s role and behavior. Gender Equality permits man and woman equal enjoyment of human rights.

22. Gender Role refers to set of roles, characteristics, and expectations of how a man and a woman should feel, think, and act as influenced by parents, peers, and society. Sexuality is an integral part of what we do and who we are; it is the way in which we experience and express ourselves as sexual beings. It is the total expression of an individual’s self-concept.

23. Using Life Skills to Improve Sexual Health The life skills mentioned below gives you the tools to deal with problems both big and small. LIFE SKILLS Assessing Your Health Making Good Decisions Communicating Effectively Practicing Wellness Setting Goals Using Refusal Skills Evaluating Media Messages

24. Assessing your health means evaluating your well-being periodically. This includes your sexuality. Figure out what can you do to improve your health if it is not as good as it can be. Making good decisions means making choices that are healthy and responsible. You must have the courage to make difficult decisions and stick to them. Communicating effectively helps you avoid misunderstanding by expressing your feelings in a healthy way. This means if you listen to what people say, they will want to listen to you as well.

25. Practicing wellness can be accomplished through information about good sexuality. Setting goals or aiming for something will give you a sense of accomplishment. Just be sure to be realistic with your target goal. Refusal skill is a way to say no to something that you don’t want to do. This skill requires practice. But first, you must feel strongly about what things you want to avoid. Evaluating media messages is being able to judge the worth of media messages. It is a big challenge knowing that most media messages are very convincing.

26. Decision Making A decision is a choice you make or act upon. A good decision is a decision in which you have carefully considered the outcome of each choice. To accept personal responsibility is to accept how your decisions may affect you and other people.

27. Decision-making skills will help you make decisions based on your needs and desires. At the same time, it helps you to resist peer pressure. Decision- making skills must be practiced and exercised in resolving issues and concerns about sexuality. At the end, you have to understand gender and human sexuality with a lesson in decision making.

28. The Six Steps of Decision Making Determine the problem Explore the alternatives Consider the consequences Identify your values Decide Evaluate

29. Your decisions related to your sexual behaviors affect yourself and others now or later in your life. These sexual behaviors may be toward yourself, your family, your friends, or other people. Thus, what you choose to do, and how you behave, should be guided by family, social, and spiritual standards, and should be based on decision making steps or procedures.

30. Activity: The Wonder of Me Read the poem and analyze how the author expresses herself. The Wonder of Me By: Bernadette Borja- Rosaroso Look at me in the eyes, Tell me who am I. Think of me just like you are, As I take you as mine. Gaze into my innermost world, You’ll learn who I am. Interact with me, And acquire a little of myself. Feel my soul And together we’ll discover each other’s world.

31. Answer the following questions: How do you express yourself? How do you see yourself? How much do you know yourself? How much do others know you?

32. Activity: My Graffiti On a sheet of bond paper (long/short/A4) write quotations, sayings, or slogans that describe and reveal your likes, passions, and aspects of your personality. See the example below. Go For It!!! I can make it! I enjoy dancing! If others can, why can’t I? Dog Lover NEVER GIVE UP!