Teacher Devises Brilliantly Simplistic Chart To Introduce Third Graders To The Concept Of Consent

Oct 17, 2018 by apost team

Ever since the #MeToo movement came about, discussions about consent as it relates to interpersonal relationships have proliferated far and wide across the world wide web, magazines, novels, television, newspapers, and virtually all other forms of digital and print media.

Kids who learn what consent is at a young age are statistically more likely to never find themselves on the giving end of unwanted sexual misconduct. But how might teachers of young, impressionable children convey the meaning of consent to them while making sure such lessons are on their mental levels?

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Liz Kleinrock, best known as the owner-cum-operator of the Instagram profile teachandtransform, is an elementary school teacher in Los Angeles, California, where she works at one of a handful of installments of the line of Citizens of the World Charter Schools, one of the finest elementary schools in the Southern California area.

Year after year, her third-grade students make all but clear that Ms. Kleinrock, better known as Ms. Liz, as most nine-year-old students are allowed to refer to their teachers by their first name, undeniably, truly cares about her little ones.

Liz Kleinrock's peers also recognize her as a high-quality, deeply-invested instructor that quite literally pours her heart and soul into her elementary education career.

Unfortunately, most teachers don't touch on life skills, the treatment of not-so-common sticky situations, relationships with friends and romantic partners, and the appropriate, practical means of dealing with other things people run into on a daily basis.

Fortunately for Ms. Liz Kleinrock's students, the popular Instagram-influencer-and-teacher regularly ties real-world, practical knowledge of life as a whole in with the lesson plans that comply with the California state standards of teaching third-graders.

First, Ms. Kleinrock prepared a five-panel breakdown of what consent is. It started with a simple question: What does it mean to give consent?"

From there, the breakdown explained that obtaining explicit, specific, unarguable approvals like "yes," "okay," and "of course" meant that another party did, in fact, consent to something.

The breakdown included much more about examples of when you do and do not need consent.

Liz's third-graders then went on to draw simple comics of examples of positive and negative consent, as well as writing sentences centering around the concept of consent.

Teaching is a hard job, especially when it comes to children. Can you believe how well Liz Kleinrock handled the topic of consent? Do you have any teacher buddies or peers that would do the same? Let us know what you think in the comments and pass this article along to your friends and family!