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TEEN
EDUCATION PROGRAM
Services We Offer
Our Curriculum
The main curriculum used by SolidSource instructors is Relationships Under Construction (RUC). RUC is meant to build on a student’s knowledge and information base each year. Each grade level can stand alone but is meant to build upon the previous year. RUC provides the best results when all levels, grades 6-12 are implemented in each school.
Character trait instruction is very important to abstinence education. We address the whole person including heart, mind, body and soul OR the emotions, intellect, physical body and social components. We teach abstinence from a medical or health perspective, so we are constantly updating medical statistics and research results. We include the health of the whole person. We believe that what the mind and heart decide to do affects the entire body.
Each RUC lesson is designed to cover a 45 minute classroom period. RUC high school curriculum has eight lessons. Sixth, seventh and eight grade lessons are five days each.
Handouts
All of the announcements, handouts, tests, and evaluations for grades 6-8 are available on-line at out Classroom Teacher Info section.
Instructors: Kay Carter, Stephanie Daniels, Kimberly Harter, Michelle Potter
Our instructors are required to attend initial training, continuing education and annual certification. The annual National Certification Training Seminar provided by AEN is a college level instruction complete with testing and certification. Curriculum-specific training is a two-day hands-on explanation of all components of the curriculum including Power Point and live visual demonstrations. Instructors are evaluated at every classroom presentation.
Stephanie Daniels has a deep desire to use every moment to its fullest and to help expand this organization until every young person knows that someone out there cares about them and is not afraid to stand up and tell them the truth.
Kimberly Harter is extremely passionate about the abstinence message due to her love for her two daughters and has a strong desire to see the truth of abstinence spread to every young person.
Michelle Potter has been speaking in schools to teens for seven years, five years in Albuquerque and two in the Van Wert area. She is married to Mike, who is the founder of Parenting Teenagers - a national conference and radio ministry to parents of teens and youth workers. He also is the Minister of Spiritual Development at Calvary Church in Van Wert. They have three children - including one teenager.
Evaluation
To assess the before and after opinions of the students that are in our five day presentations or our one day presentations, SolidSource uses an evaluation tool called Classroom Performance System (CPS). CPS is an info red response system that obtains immediate feedback from every student in an effective and precise manner.
Each student receives a response pad that they direct to an inferred receiver that immediately collects the answers and implements them into the program that is downloaded into a laptop. The system then organizes the answers and breaks them down into percents. This is very helpful for the instructor as he or she can immediately view the results after the first class to see which areas may need to be targeted more than other areas.
The students are also enthralled with CPS as it is easier than collecting the data on paper and more high tech to a generation that is immersed with technology. The evaluation is then stored in the laptop and can be uploaded to the online site for CPS. The system also helps with confidentiality as it is harder to see which button a student is pushing versus looking on another student's paper. This eases the students' minds and makes for a more honest approach to answering the questions.
The Classroom Performance System is a very effective, easier, more confidential approach to evaluating students who are involved in SolidSource presentations.