Flexibility is the Key!

Excited to meet our group of secondary teachers we arrived early at the school for our 8:00am start time. Maragretrose and I had rearranged our secondary sessions to accommodate being a team of two for the day, but we had to quickly rearrange again because the teachers were not expecting to be there until 9:00am. Luckily we are both very flexible and adaptable people :)

We had a good turn out of secondary teachers; 80 of the expected 90 secondary teachers showed up. Maragretrose did a session on Engaging Strategies for Teachers with half of the group and I did a session on Positive Student Behaviour/Behaviour Management with the other half. We switched the groups after lunch and did a repeat session. The teachers loved the interactive games and the variety of activities that we incorporated into the sessions - we had a lot of positive feedback from the teachers.

Sandra arrived from Punta Gorda in the afternoon feeling much better. She spent time observing the Learning Coaches in action. The ministry person said that we had trained them so well that they are doing a fabulous job. One of our Learning Coaches, Irene, had said to Sandra during the training that she realized that we "were not teaching them but helping them to teach themselves." Yesterday she said to Sandra, "Miss Sandra, I did the same thing you did. I had them teach themselves." Irene is a real character. To introduce the topic of CAPS, she made a grad cap out of paper and wore it during the session.

After the sessions were finished for the day Miss Grace took us to the Marie Sharp's hot sauce factory for a tour. We got to meet Marie herself and I bought a ton of hot sauces. With all the hot sauces and rum I have purchased I don't know how I am even going to lift my suitcase.

--Stan