The project's aim is to raise awareness to the education community about the sexuality, with the object of creating an afmosphere of respect and aceptance of difference.

Different strategies has been proposed:


VIDEO-FORUM ONTO SEXUALLY TRANSMITED DISEASES (STDS)



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08vtXskqpRs&feature=related (STDs)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE9YDPWmvrw&NR=1 (images)

ANSWER THE QUESTIONS:

1. Which are some of the most common infectous diseases in the united states?

2.They are transmitted the STDs?

3.What their causes?

4.Can STDs be treated with medicines?

5. What do you think of the images seen video?

WHAT ARE MY SCHOOL DIFFICULTIES?

The major difficulties in my school about the sexuality are:

• The teachers and parents have difficulty for accepting the diversity of genres ( gay, lesvians, bisexuals).








• The students know a few of contraceptive methods and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).

TEACHER PROFILE

GILMA ALVAREZ

My name is Gilma Lucía Álvarez Iriarte. I have 14 years of experience as primary teacher at Bishop Monseñor Garardo Valencia Cano school in Medellín, Colombia. I am a special educator a psychologist. I am specialezed in orientation and human development, and custom educator too.

My greatset achievement was to be one of the best graduated student from the university of Antioquia and I had the offer to do an interchange at the Murcia university in Spain. Also the last year I got the best score in the competition for access to a psychologist position with the state.

My biggest challenge was to integrate the education and the psychology for support my students to be the best people ever. Also getting students to reach their full potential.

I will never forget the time when I have integrate blind students at regular classroom. They finished their high school and they entered to the university.

I would not change many things, just continue enjoying and always innovating in my work.

I felt that I had made a difference teaching when I gives me great pleasure to watch my students progress and receive their positive feedback.

Students will remember me as the teacher who attempts to build good, affective working relationships with students in order provide them with the best opportunities for their futures.

STUDENT SURVEY

With this instrument we intend to measure the level of knowledge students from the Bishop Gerardo Valencia Cano School have about sexuality. Please be as honest as posible in order to implement a project of sexuality that really assist the needs of students. Remember that a random survey is anonymous, so nobody will know your answers .

Thank you for your participation.

1.Are you comfortable with your body?

__Yes ___No

2. What do you want to change?

______________________________________

3. What is sexuality for you?

___Sexual relationship ___Accept yourself ___ Porn

4.Who do you prefer to speak about sexuality?

___Mother ___Father ___Friends ___Teachers ___Another person

5. Have you ever had sexual relationship?

___Yes ___No ___With protection ___Without protection

6. When did you have your first sexual experience?

__ Before age 13 ___between 14 and 16 ___After 16 years

7. Which planning methods do you know?

___Condon ___Birth Control Pills ___Diaphragm ___T ___ Others

8. Which STDs do you know? Mention them.

________________________________________________

________________________________________________

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9. If you have a gay partner, what is your attitude towards him?

___I don't share with him/her.
___ He/she could be my friend
___It's irrelevant for me
___I can support him/her

SURVEY ANALYSIS

• 96.6% ofe the students accept themselves and respect their body. 47.7% know about sexuality and consult their doubts with their mothers 57.6%, with their friends 16.9%, with their fathers 10.1%, with teachers 1.6%. The 23.7% use two or more channels.





• 64.4% of the students know about planning methods. They know the condom. 20% don't know any.





• 40.6% of the students have first sexual experience before seventeen years age, and 33.3% without portection.





• 64.4% respect other types of sexual orientation. It's irrelevant for 32.2% and 3.35% didn't agree with another type of sexual arientation.
  

For due to direct observation and conversations with teachers and students, they have detected at least two pregnant teenagers per year, sexual abuse cases that require orientation.

In among the primary schoolers, the children show curiosity and sexual exploration from early age.

Women think that men are stronger, more aggressive and more unfaithful that women. For men sexuality is just to sexual relationship.

The students don't know about sexual and reproductive rights.

They said that in the school is not taught, only in the primary school with the reproduction theme.

SCHOOL DESCRIPTION

The Bishop Gerardo Valencia Cano School is a public primary and secondary school in Medellin (Antioquia, Colombia). It is located in Robledo St German neighborhood.

It has two sections; one is named “La Portada”, located in Villa Sofia, Robledo neighborhood. The other is located in St German, Robledo neighborhood. There are one thousand three hundred eighty seven students in both sections. It has 41 teachers in general each teacher teaches his/her subject. There are more students from 1and 2 strata than from 3 one. Students come from different neighborhoods surrounding the school: Los Colores, Calazans between others.

I will describe the section of St German. It has twelve class rooms, two playgrounds, there are four floors, two computer rooms, restaurant, coordination’s office, science lab, auditorium, a small library, principal’s office and psychology’s office.

Our educational model named “Investigativo-creativo” was created by the educational community, taking in mind their needs and interests. This model strengthens critical thinking in the students. We think that the academy is important but not everything, values are also important, so we work the life project with each student.
The school has sexual prevention programs, ecology, free time and parents' school projects.
Other students activities are:- A strength of the institution is the sport , we have agreements with INDER for basketball and volleyball sports outside.-Dance with Ballet of Antioquia.

My difficulties in the school are for evening schedule, because it is very difficult to concentrate on children, also there is little support from the parents in homework.