So I sadly reached my first proper behaviour issue in Guyana yesterday. A girl from America has just been sent to live over here with a relative because of a family issue back home. I didn’t know any of this and handled the fact that she wasn’t working with very little tact. She erupted in screams and arguments and I have been left chasing up the leadership team to find out the full story.
It made me think of the positive behaviour management sessions we have run for the past two years with teachers in Uganda and Nepal. I don’t have my own classroom here and that makes routines a lot harder. There is also no behaviour tracking, no system of rewards and no sanctions. This set-up is very similar to the teachers we were training in Nepal and Uganda.
I’m not completely sure what is going to happen with the situation with the girl. I won’t teach her until I have a reconciliation meeting with her. I am then going to create a star chart for that class to reward positive behaviour and finally I am going to make sure the next lesson is planned and prepared perfectly. This is exactly how I coped and improved in London.
Last Friday, the United Nations invited the Form 4 heroes to International peace day at parliament building. The event was to be held the following day so I called a meeting after school for anyone in form 4 who wanted to go. Thankfully there were no endless sheets of paper work or 10 weeks notice that I remember having to trawl through last year. I gave them my number in case their parents had any questions and we were set!
The Peace Day event was very strange. A few people (including the prime minister) made a speech and one speech from Secretary General Ban Ki Moon was read out, there were some awards and finally refreshments. I made my way of to the Speaker of parliament and asked if he would take us round the chambers. Thankfully he did and we were in!
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