Promoting Adolescent Health Through Cross-Age Teaching: An Interactive Centra Training


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Promoting Adolescent Health - Involving Stakeholders - free training, March 18

Building Partnerships for Youth, CYFERnet Teen Editorial Board and Healthy People, Healthy Communities is pleased to present an opportunity for you to learn more about how cross-age teaching promotes positive outcomes for young people. This training will use exciting new technology to help you learn more about this important issue.

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Listen to the presentation (RealAudio player needed)
Listen and view the entire presentation (you will be prompted to install the Centra browser plug-in - not available for Macintosh)

Cross-age teaching engages teens as teachers for pre-teens or younger children, typically in nonformal educational settings. In many communities, cross-age teaching has been a useful strategy to influence and educate younger youth. Preadolescents and young children look up to and want to emulate teenagers. Adolescence marks a time when peers become a strong influence in the development of behavior and values. Consequently, peer leaders have the potential to take an active role in influencing their peers to participate in healthy behaviors. Additionally cross-age teaching can lead to positive outcomes for the teen teachers. This Centra web conference will provide more information on this valuable strategy.

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Event Summary

Topic: Promoting Adolescent Health Through Cross-Age Teaching
Audience: National, state and local personnel with an interest in youth development and/or prevention of HIV/AIDS, STDs and teen pregnancy for young people ages 9-13
What: Centra is a synchronous web delivery tool for conducting virtual or “live” events through the internet using visuals and two-way audio. To maximize the full potential of a “live” event, a PC (not compatible with MACs), internet connection, Internet Explorer or Netscape, and a mic/headset combo or speakers and a microphone are required.
Date: Friday, February 13, 2004
Time: :1:00-2:15 pm Eastern/12:00-1:15pm Central/11:00-12:15pm Mountain/10:00-11:15pm Pacific/8:00-9:15am Hawaiian

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CENTRA TRAINING AGENDA

Faye C.H. Lee, Ed.D.
University of California
Cooperative Extension
San Francisco County

Jan Miller-Heyl
DARE to be You Program Director
Colorado State University

David Gordanier
DARE to be You Peer Leader

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Part 1 (5 minutes) Introduction-Karen Hoffman Tepper, Research Specialist, University of Arizona

Roll call and introductions


Part 2 (20 minutes) Research Review: Faye Lee, University of California-Davis, Cooperative Extension

What is cross-age teaching?

What does research tell us about the relationship of cross-age teaching and positive outcomes for young people?

Part 3 (20 minutes) Featured Program—DARE to be You, Jan Miller-Heyl, Project Director DARE to be you, Colorado State University

What is DARE to be You?

How has DARE to be You incorporated cross-age teaching into the program?


Part 4 (15 minutes) Application of Cross-Age Teaching, David Gordanier, DARE to be You Program

Describe the experience of a teen teacher?

What are some of the benefits of serving as a teen teacher?


Part 5 (15 minutes) Discussion

Question and answer period

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System Requirements

Operating System Windows 95, 98, ME, NT (SP5+), 2000 Pro or XP Pro
CPU Processor Speed 133 MHz
Data Storage 40 MB free disk (HD) space
System RAM 32 MB
Sound Card 16-bit, full duplex if using full duplex audio
Monitor 800x600 resolution, 256+ colors; 16-bit+ high color
Sound Hardware Microphone and Speakers or Headset with Microphone
Network Connection 28.8 Kbps
Web Browser Netscape 4.08+ (except Netscape 6.x) or Internet Explorer (IE) 4.01+ with Java and JavaScript enabled

**NOT COMPATIBLE WITH MACS**

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TIMELINE TO ASSIST IN YOUR PLANNING

Before the Centra conference –

  1. Register online.

  2. You will receive an email with specific instructions on downloading Centra and preparing for the conference. Follow those instructions

  3. Visit the BPY Web site and review some of the information in the Resources section: www.bpy.n4h.org.

Friday,February 13: Participate in Centra conference.
1:00-2:15pm Eastern
12:00-1:15pm Central
11:00-12:15pm Mountain
10:00-11:15pm Pacific
8:00-9:15am Hawaii

After February 13: Begin to use some of the new information you learned about on the Centra conference.

Questions or discussion regarding this project should be directed to Karen Hoffman Tepper at karenht@ag.arizona.edu.

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