Peer education can be regarded as a form of group cooperative learning. It is a way to educate teenagers by using the positive factors of peer pressure. It emphasizes the early training of those influential and appealing teenagers, so that they can master certain knowledge and skills, and then spread knowledge and skills to the surrounding teenagers through them in various ways. It is widely used in AIDS education at present. The timing of the first sex education for students is in the theme teaching of AIDS transmission routes. Senior primary school students are very lacking in sexual knowledge, so they can explain their incomprehension in plain written language. Therefore, it is a more appropriate way to conduct sex education in the form of peer education.
The implementation of peer education mainly includes the following steps. Firstly, the class is randomly divided into several groups, and each group is headed by the above-mentioned peer educators. In the group, each group is given a keynote speech to introduce relevant knowledge. Group discussion, peer educators answer and clarify the sexual knowledge that students in the group don't understand; Secondly, group reports are shared among groups; Finally, the teacher summed it up.
There may be some problems in the implementation of peer education. For example, although some peer educators can boldly express some opinions, they have little influence on other students, mainly as follows: other students in the group did not ask meaningful questions to answer, resulting in long silence; Peer educators didn't really understand their own tasks, didn't start with their main concerns, and just recited some correct but impractical concepts mechanically. In addition, in the process of implementation, it is found that these peer educators can not get the respect, trust and support of other students, mainly because these peer educators are older, have average grades and perform poorly in daily study and life. This suggests that we should consider comprehensively when choosing peer educators, not just the maturity or expressive ability of students. The best way is to let teenagers choose their own peer educators.
Peer education is more suitable for teaching sensitive topics, such as knowledge about sexual transmission in AIDS health education. Through peer education, the effect is better. However, this method needs a lot of students, so different teaching effects brought by different objects, different backgrounds and different regions should be considered in teaching. In order to make the effect of peer education better, we can strengthen the training of students so that they can constantly adapt to and master the methods of peer education.