Dear Students,
Our Juniors were the first students who were introduced to this topic followed by our Freshmen and Sophomores and finally our Seniors. Your assignment at the end was to do more research on the topic using the MISO method, and come up with your way of compiling the information and presenting it. YES you will be presenting your research to your fellow Lancers in the Auditorium on May 18th during Advisory.
This is an ongoing project which will continue after Spring Break. So far we have had an AMAZING response from our Juniors and in next month's Newsletter we will see the research of our Freshmen and Sophomores, and I'm sure it will be just as AWESOME!!!
The MISO Method of Action Research is included in our Advisory Curriculum so in this Newsletter, let's hear from our Juniors and their Advisors and see how they used this method to research on this crucial topic of Child Protection during their Advisory sessions.
Tessa John-Guerra
US Guidance Counselor
"After attending the US Guidance Counselor's presentation about Grooming, my advisory group brainstormed how we could take the information to a further dimension and we came up with three main ideas: to share with our community relevant phone numbers to help our members to find support in Comunidad de Madrid as well as legal information, then we thought that our community needed to better understand the differences in personal interactions between Spain and the United-States, as cultural awareness helps prevent uncomfortable situations and last, we thought relevant to explain why an episode of abuse could not just be dismissed as trauma, is long lasting and can destroy one's life."
- Grade 11 Advisor
- US FL Dept Chair/IB Examiner/WSL/MSA VTM
"After Tessa's presentation, my advisory and I wanted to look into different aspects of grooming and sexual abuse in order to find correlations and conduct some further research. My group and I decided that we wanted to look at different cultures and how the different norms and behaviors of each may play a role in how often sexual abuse occurs and how often it is reported. We compared Spain to the United States seeing as we knew that there are very evident differences in their preferred interpersonal space. We then researched statistics and drew conclusions from the data in order to link everything together. Overall, this is an incredibly important topic and it was interesting to research an aspect of sexual abuse and grooming that may not be evident at first thought."
Junior
" The process we went through when building the presentation was to have a quick reflection as a group followed by us dropping all that we discussed about directly onto the document. To make the presentation better we went back and adjusted wording and added to some of the ideas with more details."
Junior
"I had students reflect on the Child Protection Presentation and introduced them to the MISO Method. Students were encouraged to collect data and information from school counselors, counselors/therapists from outside of school, online research, and more. Students made their own groups and divided the different tasks that they executed throughout the week. A successful outcome comes from informing students of Child Protection and allowing them to use their creativity and empathy when performing the research. Students did all of the work, and I am super proud of them!"
- Ana Sokoli
- Grade 11 Advisor
- Upper School Math Teacher
HAPPY SPRING BREAK EVERYONE!!!!!!!
Please send us your feedback and ideas here on topics to cover in future editions.
Did you miss the other Newsletters?
- Please go over all the past newsletters where you will find different study strategies under the sub-heading of Study Skills.
- Then go over all the different professions explored under the sub-heading of Career Guidance.
Email: tessajohn@asmadrid.es
Website: asmadrid.org
Location: American School of Madrid, Calle América, Pozuelo de Alarcón, Spain
Phone: 34 917401902