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A teacher’s job is all about communicating. And that means more than reciting lesson plans or forcing rote memorization; it means being able to engage students, using language and expression to captivate them. Sounds simple enough, but it’s not that easy – particularly for teachers dealing with a generation that has the attention span of video games and music videos. That’s why 40 teachers form the Cayo District have been attending a three day training on communication skills. And they’ve got high hopes! Ethnelda Paulino from the University of Belize explained how good communication can save Belize.

Ethnelda Paulino, UB
“More and more we are having problems in Belize and we believe that communication is the problem and if we focus on teaching our students and our teachers first of all to communicate accurately, effectively, we feel that we will have a better Belize. We feel that if we communicate, if our students know how to communicate, we’ll have a new generation of parents, a new generation of teachers who will do a better job.”

Teacher #1,
”It will assist my students to be better speakers so that they are not afraid, they are not scared of coming to the front of the classroom and to be able to speak, to be able to talk. It teaches us how to have that one to one communication, how to be able to talk to people so that people will understand us. We talk and we move away and we need to look at that person to be able to better understand and see what they are talking about.”

Abel Silva, Teacher - Succotz R.C. School
“Communication skills is one of the skills that is lacking in most students and coming to this workshop is going to definitely help us teachers to transmit to the children skills that will be life long. They will learn the skills and it will help them throughout their life.”