Learning pathway 2 of 8
From Content Expert to Skilled Facilitator
For educators who already know the content, this pathway builds the facilitation skills that make your classroom engaging, inclusive and responsive to the young people in it.
Why this pathway
Knowing the facts is only half of teaching sex education well. The other half is what happens in the room: setting a welcoming tone, handling a difficult question, keeping a group engaged and responding when something unexpected comes up. This pathway starts by pinpointing the topics where your knowledge could go deeper, then fills them with targeted self-paced courses. The instructor-led trainings are where the real shift happens, with practice teaching and peer feedback over five sessions. A professional development resource library supports your growth long after the training ends.
Goal
Develop facilitation skills that create engaging, responsive classrooms.
Who it is for
- Educators who know the content
- Teachers who want stronger facilitation skills
- Facilitators looking for practice and feedback
Time
About 12 hours over five live sessions for each instructor-led course you choose, plus the self-paced courses.
Step by step
The steps
Take them in this order. Each one builds on the one before.
Assess your needs
Sex Educator Content Knowledge Self-Assessments by topic & Resource Library (free resource)
Use the topic-by-topic self-assessments to find where your content knowledge could go deeper, and the resource library to follow up on what they show.
Complete relevant self-paced courses
Relationships & Consent (self-paced course)
Strengthen how you teach relationships rooted in consent and clear communication, including how to help young people recognize supportive and harmful behaviors.
LGBTQ+ Inclusive and Affirming Sex Ed (self-paced course)
Learn identities and terminology, intersectionality, and what teaching through an LGBTQ+ inclusive and affirming lens looks like, so every student sees themselves in your lessons.
STIs & HIV (self-paced course)
Refresh your knowledge of common STIs and HIV and how to teach prevention, testing and treatment without judgment or shame.
Puberty (self-paced course)
A self-paced course on puberty that deepens the content behind your lessons on growing up and the changes young people go through.
Cultural Humility & Responsiveness (self-paced course)
Explore culture, implicit bias and intersectionality, and how to create equitable, inclusive and respectful learning environments where all students see themselves reflected.
Trauma-Informed Facilitation (self-paced course)
Learn how to create and sustain a trauma-informed learning environment, and how to recognize and respond to a participant who may be showing the effects of past trauma.
Participate in relevant virtual instructor-led training
Facilitation Skills Course (live training, 5 sessions)
Over five live sessions with practice teaching and peer feedback, build platform skills, lead and debrief discussions, manage difficult questions and challenging situations, create inclusive learning environments and keep your group engaged.
Facilitating from an LGBTQ+ Inclusive & Affirming Lens (live training, 5 sessions)
Go deeper into strategies for keeping language and learning environments inclusive and affirming, and bring intersectionality into your facilitation, with practice teaching and peer feedback across five sessions.
Facilitating from a Cultural Humility & Responsive Lens (live training, 5 sessions)
Explore how culture shapes the way we interact and make decisions, make lessons more culturally responsive and practice responding to microaggressions, with practice teaching and peer feedback across five sessions.
Facilitating from a Trauma-Informed Lens (live training, 5 sessions)
Practice creating a trauma-informed learning environment and responding with empathy to young people who may be showing the effects of past trauma, with practice teaching and peer feedback across five sessions.
Ongoing professional growth
Professional Development Resource Library (free resource)
Keep growing after the training ends, with a library of professional development resources to return to as new questions come up in your teaching.
Where it leads
Participants move from knowing the content to teaching it effectively.
Enroll in this pathway
Enrolling in a whole pathway at once is on its way. Until then, you can take each course on its own from the course catalog, or ask us about enrolling yourself or a group.
Keep learning
Free fact sheets, guides and tools sit in the resource library. Every course and live training sits in the training library.