Thirty teachers are spending the last few days of their summer break
in training. The teachers are participating in the “Skills for Action”
workshop sponsored by the Lions Club and Ministry of Education. The program
started in 2005 and it is to equip teachers with the knowledge to not only teach
the three Rs but also to impart lessons on those intangibles, manners, respect,
and courtesy. Nilda Muschamp is Belize’s local trainer.
Nilda Muschamp, Local Trainer
“We are actually training teachers to be able to work with young people
so that we can create young people that are capable, people that are strong
with character. We are trying to change the Belize.”
Beverly Fisher, Facilitator
“Skills like refusal and resistance skills, positive decision making,
communication, impulse control, just to help kids learn self-awareness, social
awareness and making good decisions.”
Keith Swift,
“Why are these skills important?”
Beverly Fisher,
“Well because young people used to get them fortunately through their
parents and church and community but it seems like the last decade or so that
the kids are not getting these tools and skills so much at home and church and
so the schools need to help. It takes a village to raise children. These young
people today need all of us to help and this program will certainly do that.”
Nilda Muschamp,
“You’re a reporter and you know that most of the time you listen
to the news and you hear young people getting into problems, you would hear
about people taking drugs and this program here is a program that wants to see
that change in our country. So it is catering for empowering teachers with skills
necessary to do that, not only teachers may I add but it also involves parents
and the community.”
Beverly Fisher,
“We are targeting the counsellors as well as across the curriculum
teachers because these kinds of instructional strategies and these kind of lessons
like how to make good decisions can be utilized in every classroom with every
discipline taught.”
The two day workshop ends tomorrow.
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