We are so grateful to all of the parents and mentors who have helped us find even more guest speakers to come and help us find information for our inquiries about Children's Rights.
This week we have three workshops planned with guest speakers on specific topics related to inquiry groups in each of the classrooms.
Monday we had a psychologist come and discuss the affects on children when their rights are denied. In particular he focused on what happens when children are abused or discriminated against and what causes the abuse to occur.
On Wednesday we are going to have a judge come and discuss the effects on people when the rights of children are violated. She will be discussing laws that are already passed as well as ideas for laws that Chile needs to adopted to further the development of Children's Rights here in this country.
On Thursday we will have a visit from a representative from UNICEF who will speak with us regarding the role of UNICEF in general as well as here in Chile. He will focus on what his organisation does to preserve Children's Rights as well as ideas that they have to continue to educate others about Children's Rights in the future.
I encourage you to discuss what will be happening this week with your friends and family and develop some questions that you would like to ask these speakers. You can either ask the questions yourself if you are going to the workshop, or pass your questions to a student who is attending the workshop for your class.
Lastly, please feel free to leave any comments that you have about these speakers and their workshops. In particular, were they helpful? Why or why not? What could we do next year to make these workshops even more useful? Would you like more workshops or more whole level guest speakers? Who was the most helpful?
Looking forward to your comments!
Miss Jessica
