These are the most important messages on sexual and reproductive health every student and teacher needs to know, based on lesson 1-9 in WSWM.

1. Sexuality for all: The whole course centres around students’ awareness and conviction that sexuality, sexual health and sexual rights are integral, fundamental parts of human beings from birth on. Children, young people, adults and elderly people are all sexual beings, both women and men, but their sexuality and SRHR need to be addressed in an age-appropriate way by skilled educators and teachers who act as facilitators and by trained peer educators.
2. Self-esteem, personality and puberty: In this lesson we started with the significance of self-esteem. During the course of the lesson students gradually grew aware of their own personality and also learned how puberty causes their body and emotions to change. Being insecure (at times) about these changes is something most young people experience, and is therefore perfectly normal.
3. Independence and friendship: They also discovered that growing up means growing into independent, autonomous young men or women, who experience feelings of love, intimacy and sexual arousal and attraction. Friends are becoming more important, the influence of parents may become less so.
4. Open communication and respect for diversity: Students discovered the importance of open and equal communication between boys and girls (in friendships, love relationships etc.). Students looked at similarities and learned to respect each other’s wishes and limits. They learned about the different expectations society has of boys and girls and how they impact their behaviour. , In addition, they accepted the importance of treating men and women equally and that they both have the same sexual and reproductive rights.
5. Safe, consensual and enjoyable sexuality: Students considered what it means to be sexually active in a respectful, consensual, enjoyable and safe way and whether they are ready for it. They acquired the knowledge, attitudes and skills to protect themselves and their partner from unintended pregnancy, STIs, HIV. They learned how to prevent and cope with sexual harassment and abuse and how to escape and seek help for it.
6. Making own informed choices: regarding all issues discussed, students now know that they have the right to make their own informed choices, respect the rights of others.
7. Looking for support: Students know where to look for support and help on different topics: puberty, friendship, parents, love and sexuality and abuse.

Additional core messages for TTC students:

To get these messages effectively across to students, WSWM combines:

1. a logical sequence of age-appropriate issues with a
2. participatory didactic approach that is
3. rights- and evidence-based.

The facilitator is supported by the teacher manual and a training beforehand to effectively apply:

1. a positive and non-judgmental facilitation - regarding young people and sexuality - which goes beyond being only problem oriented and which avoids imposing teachers’ own personal norms on students by
2. empowering students in making own decisions about their sexuality and SR Health
3. in a safe and confidential atmosphere

This Lesson 10 TTC aims to help TTC students reflect on these pedagogical and didactic principles and find out how they will become a student-centred teacher and a CSE facilitator whom can help their students’ dreams come true.