Consent Ed Teacher Training

Consent Ed facilitator training is a once-off training session that gives educators the skills and knowledge around effective facilitation, and the confidence to handle a disclosure of sexual violence from a student sensitively and effectively. Adapted to meet the needs of the changing SPHE curriculum, our training covers not only HOW to facilitate these conversations but WHY it is so important to do so.

This hybrid model of training is made up of 3 e-learning modules hosted on Consent Ed's Moodle, to be completed at your leisure prior to the online session, + the 2.5 hour online session.

What is covered in the training?

• Facilitation Skills.
• Disclosure Training.
• Sexual Violence prevention and awareness training.
• Consent Ed Toolkit guide.

Our SPHE lesson plans have been designed in consultation with students, teachers and the NCCA to empower young people to have happy, healthy and safe relationships, covering topics such as:

• Healthy, unhealthy and abusive relationships
• Boundaries
• Consent
• Online sexual harm
• Pornography
• And much more!

After becoming a certified Consent Ed facilitator, each teacher will receive a toolkit with:

Consent Ed handbook containing

• Lesson plan.
• Teacher guidance for each topic with relevant laws, research and support services.
• Activity sheets and handouts.

Supporting media (PowerPoints, videos, etc).

What SPHE outcomes do Consent Ed resources cover?

Our sessions cover a wide range of SPHE outcomes for both Junior Cycle and Senior Cycle in an accessible way for teachers and students alike.

Senior Cycle SPHE Learning Outcomes

• 2.1 Demonstrate the awareness and skills needed for nurturing healthy in-person and online relationships, including respecting boundaries, communicating effectively, navigating difficult conversations, preventing and managing conflict and dealing with break-ups.
• 2.3 Discuss the need for consent and the importance of care, respect, empathy, trust and mutual pleasure within a sexual relations.
• 2.5 Identify and consider common signs of abusive relationships, including coercive control.
• 2.7 Investigate the influence of pornography on attitudes, behaviors and relationship expectations and what supports are available for those impacted by pornography.
• 2.8 Discuss image-based abuse, sexual harassment, sexual assault and rape and what to do and how to seek support if they or someone they know has experienced any of these.

Junior Cycle SPHE Learning Outcomes

• 2.7 Assess the benefits and difficulties associated with their online world and discuss strategies for dealing with a range of scenarios that might arise.
• 2.9 Explore why young people share sexual imagery online and examine the risks and consequences of doing this.
• 3.2 Examine benefits and difficulties experienced by young people in a range of relationships - friendships, family relationships, and romantic/intimate relationships.
• 3.3 Identify signs of healthy, unhealthy and abusive relationships.
• 3.4 Appreciate the importance of setting healthy boundaries in relationships and consider how to show respect for the boundaries of others.
• 3.6 Appreciate the breadth of what constitutes human sexuality, and how sexual orientation and gender identity are experienced and expressed in diverse ways
• 3.8 Appreciate the importance of seeking, giving and receiving consent in sexual relationships, from the perspective of building caring relationships and from a legal perspective.
• 3.10 Discuss the influence of popular culture and the online world, in particular, the influence of pornography, on young people’s understanding, expectations and social norms in relation to sexual expression.
• 3.11 Demonstrate how to access and appraise appropriate and trustworthy advice, support and services related to relationships and sexual health.
• 4.4 Discuss ways to support themselves in challenging times and where / how to seek support, if needed.