Incentive Funding for Disseminating Information
8.2.8 Incentive Funding for Disseminating Information
Education and health respondents were also asked about their role in funding or disseminating the results of pilot projects or exemplary programs in HIV/sexuality education. The responses indicate that previous activity in this area has declined from previous levels.
Figure 140
| Fund or Disseminate Pilot or Exemplary Projects in Curriculum/Instruction |
Planned in next 2 yrs |
Regularly |
Once in last 3 yrs |
Once in last 4-10 yrs |
Never |
Not role |
Don’t Know |
No Response |
| MOE-21k | 0.0 |
9.1 |
36.4 |
9.1 |
36.4 |
9.1 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
| SD-22i | 0.9 |
24.0 |
5.9 |
21.6 |
39.2 |
na |
8.4 |
0.0 |
| MOH-30f | 0.0 |
8.3 |
25.0 |
25.0 |
0.0 |
33.3 |
8.3 |
0.0 |
| PHU-25f | 5.6 |
44.8 |
16.4 |
0.0 |
21.0 |
3.4 |
6.0 |
2.8 |
| PHN-18f | 0.0 |
21.5 |
12.1 |
2.1 |
38.8 |
3.8 |
20.4 |
1.3 |
Sustained Support for Teachers
Education and health respondents were asked several questions about the support that they provided to teachers for instruction about HIV/AIDS, STD and sexuality.
Summary of Results Related to Support for Teachers
About one-third of education ministries and school principals regularly fund or organize teacher inservice. About one-half of school districts fund or organize such inservice. About one-quarter of health ministries and public health nurses and about one-half of public health units regularly organize teacher inservice.
About 20% of sex education teachers have had no inservice in sexuality education. Less than 30% of teachers reported that they have had more than one workshop to prepare them for their teaching in this area.
Most education and health authorities regularly provide funding for teaching materials on HIV/sexuality. Teachers find the materials they use to teach about sensitive topics such as sexual orientation, explicit sexual behaviour such as anal or oral sex, coercive sex, commercial sex and sex for pleasure/fulfillment are less adequate than other materials. Most education and health authorities reported that they are not funding pilot studies or exemplary projects in sex education.
Less than 20% of education ministries and school districts reported that they regularly purchase copyright or site licenses for teaching materials related to HIV/sexuality. As well, less than 20% of education ministries and school districts reported that they are funding or supporting the development of electronic learning resources in HIV/sexuality education. About 60% of school principals said that they were doing this.
Less than one-third of education ministries regularly fund other workshops organized by teacher groups on HIV/sexuality education. About one-half of education ministries said they use electronic networks to support teachers of HIV/sexuality education.
Less than 20% of education and health ministries, school districts and public health units, school principals and public health nurses regularly develop, publish or disseminate teaching/learning materials that have been adapted for gay/lesbian and bisexual youth. A little more than one-half of health and education respondents at all levels regularly develop, publish or disseminate adapted sexuality teaching/learning materials for students with disabilities, aboriginal students and cultural minority students.
The majority of public health nurses (70.9%) report that they are teaching classes and 69% of teachers report that nurses have given at least one presentation in their classes. However, only a minority of teachers report that the nurses teach often in their classes.