The Lion's Quest Program being run by the Lion's Club International and the OAS today began a two day training workshop for teachers. The focus is for teachers to learn the skill on how to teach students in primary schools life skills. It's a program that has been running for two years going into its third. It began as a pilot project and is being expanded to be a full program to impact primary school students from infant 1 to standard 6. Sister Caritas Lawrence who ran the pilot project explains that the Lion's Quest will have great impact on students. Queen's Square schoolteacher Keline Staine agrees.
Sister Caritas Lawrence,
"...Children skills to be responsible to be faithful, to be open, to have good decision making practices, and how to grow in positive ways. The teachers learn a different way to do the teaching. The schools that have the program, they have seen a significant difference in the way the children are behaving, in the way they study, the way they are responsible, the way they respond to their parents. I believe if the program is in all the schools, in another twenty years, we will see a significant difference in the way our older behave."
Keline Staine, School Teacher
I think it is a very good program because from the teachers that have done it before, they said they've seen improvement academically and socially and emotionally in the children. So I am excited to go and implement it in my classroom. I wasn't teaching it last term but the other teacher was teaching it and my students, when I go back into the classroom, they would say they learnt a lot and they learnt how to work in groups and they learnt how to talk to each other and how to be more friendly with each other. So I see it is working and, I won't see the academic part as yet but at the end of the term I will see it."
The workshop has participation from 7 schools from across the country. It winds down tomorrow.
