The Training of Trainers Manual - UNFPA

Day 3
Exercise: Introduction to life-skills-based education
Objective
To enable participants to identify what life skills are and what they
are useful for
To introduce the concept of skills-based education and identify the
role of peer educators in facilitating life-skills-based education
30
minutes
Materials
Two flip charts
Process
Divide participants into four small groups, and ask each group to discuss two
questions, the first of which is, ‘What are life skills’
Then, have each group choose one of the following questions as the second issue
for discussion:
■ Who can teach life skills
■ Where can life skills be taught
■ How can life skills be taught
After this, reconvene the whole group to discuss the answers to the four questions.
Read out loud (or give the participants) the definition of life skills (see Word Sense
box, page 72) and discuss how this fits into what the participants have said.
Ask the participants to share with the group their own experience of building skills
when working with young people and what they consider appropriate techniques
for building skills.
Training note
The following exercise on saying ‘no’ is an
example of an activity to help build skills.
It is aimed at developing assertiveness in
non-sexual situations and is very suitable
for a young target audience. It can also be
used as an introduction to an activity aimed
at developing safer-sex negotiation skills.
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