HEALTH TEACHERS

TRAINING

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❑You are going to
improving learners’
lives.
❑You will play a major
role in achieving the
goals of the School
Health Programme.
❑You will be at the
centre of the School
Health Program in
your school.

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Purpose of Training
Health Teacher

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 Type & method of Training
• Training is for ten (10) Days using different teaching
methodologies like
– PowerPoint Presentation.
– Group Discussion
– Role plays.
– Demonstrations, coaching & Practicing

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 Training contents
• Training course is divided into five modules
– Module 1 The School Health Programme.
– Module 2 The Sick Learner Examination.
– Module 3 Diseases.
– Module 4 Social Topics.
– And Module 5 Mentorship.

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Module 1. School Health Program
This module
• Outlines concepts, systems and structures for the school health
service pillar of the SHN
• Policy guidelines that support programme implementation.

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Module 2. Sick Learner examination
This module provides
• You with skills on how to look and ask for signs and symptoms
of diseases.
• An opportunity to learn how to use THINKMD a diagnostic
application used by teachers to diagnose and records all school
health activities in school.

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Module 3. Diseases
This module provides relevant information for you to be able:
• To identify learners who are sick from these diseases in school;
• To prevent and protect learners and teacher to contract these
diseases; and
• To provide care to the learners who are sick from these
diseases and make referral to the health facility.

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Module 4. Social Topics
This module provides relevant information for you to be able:
• Manage social factors that can cause mental illness and drugs
and alcohol misuse.
• To understand cultural values and stereotypes that contribute to
an increase in gender based violence and child abuse.
• To understand illnesses caused by nutritional deficiencies.
• Prevent sexually transmitted infections.

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Module 5. Mentorship
This module provides relevant information for you to be able:
• Practice skills in counselling, mentorship for effective
communication .
• To understand how to provide frontline care, create networks for
enhanced partnerships
• To set up school health education sessions.
• To help bring out environmental health principles.

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 Facilitators
• Seasoned Facilitators from DEBS, DHO & HL
• Upon completion, you will be certified as HT.

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Support from HL

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 School Health Program
Implementation Activities
Implementation activities has been divided into three
• Activities that introduces the school health program in the the
province, district and community (school & Clinics)
• Activities that prepares schools and clinic implementation of the
school health program
• Activities that sustains school health program implementation at
the school and clinic level

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Construct and Equip
Health Rooms

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 Harnessing
Technology to
Assess Sick Learner
- ThinkMD, developed a diagnostic
application for school-aged children
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to enable teachers to make accurate
assessments

- Provide two – three tablets for

THINKMD

- Provide one phone for

Communication and ThinkMD follow-
up

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 THE SCALE
250,000 28
Children enrolled Primary health
in partner schools facilities

103
Partner Schools

800 22
Trained school Partner health
health workers posts

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The Impact

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 22% 38%
Increase in Decrease in odds
student’s knowledge of illness
on health

48% 90%
Increase in Schools reporting a
vitamin A supplementation decrease in
and deworming coverage absenteeism

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Administrative announcement
• Training begins at 08:00 & end 16:00 hours, daily. On some days it will
end at 17:00 hours.
• 15 minutes tea break morning & afternoon. Afternoon tea break will be at
the end of the day.
• 1 Hour Lunch
• Travel allowance will be paid to you through mobile money transfer in
three instalments
– By end of Day 1 transport for 4 days
– By end of Day 5 transport for 3 days
– By end of Day 7 transport for 3 days

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Administrative announcement cont.…
• You will be given
– T-shirt upon graduation to serve as uniform.
– Back packs
• Any question?

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