“Teachers should have incentives,
Wholesale Hockey Jerseys 2018, and work for them, gaining a sense of pride. The only real benefit you get from teaching is seeing children you taught succeed as men and women.”By Leon SuseranRose Agnes Dos Ramos is a multi-talented woman and has made the utmost use of that gift.From an early age, she was exposed to the stage and performed, and even won a medal at the then British Guiana Music Festival for Verse Speaking, as well as another award, in 1969. She was brought up very close to the Roman Catholic Convent in New Amsterdam and said that she wanted to become a nun, but somehow found herself in teaching and stuck with that in the years that followed. She has taught for 38 years; had been deeply involved in community life; the Guyana Teachers’ Union; and has still been a mother to many.Whether it is ‘Aunty Rosie’ or ‘Miss Dos Ramos’,
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Cheap Jerseys Wholesale, New Amsterdam, to Harry and Mary de Souza and spent all of her childhood days there. She attended St Mary’s Carmelite Convent School from 1960-1966 after which she wrote the Common Entrance Exam in 1966 and gained a place at the Berbice High School. In June 1972, she wrote the General Certificate of Education and obtained three subjects.“I came from a very large family— eleven of us”, she recalled. “We had love in the family…there were times as a little girl that I used to sell old newspapers. Those days the tailors used to buy papers to wrap up the clothes.” She used to save that money to buy gifts for everyone at Christmastime.She developed that sharing spirit from early.“From very young I learnt to give, because my mother’s policy was ‘if you bring it home, you had to share it’. If you got something you didn’t want to share, you had to eat it outside.”She was also tasked with taking baskets to the poor, with the assistance of her father.Rose was deeply involved in drama, poetry and singing. Catholic nun, the late Sister Rose Magdalene, nurtured her talent.Never one to be afraid of the limelight, Rose admits that she may have a little stage-fright at times, but does not show it. “I might feel a bit nervous but I get over it quickly. I don’t show my nervousness, and once I get into it, it goes, because I have been on stage since five years old, so crowds don’t bother me… plus I have a loud voice.”TeachingRose was offered a job at the Infant of Prague Nursery School for a year, 1972-1973. That school is Trinity Street Nursery in the town today. The budding teacher then applied for a job at St Therese’s Primary, where she spent most of her career— 34 fruitful and memorable years to be exact.She began as a Pupil Teacher and was successful at the teachers’ exams after which she entered In- Service Teacher training at the Cyril Potter College of Education from 1980-1982, optioning in Social Studies and Music and Drama. She taught all levels at the primary school and spent a lot of time teaching the Grade 6 level.A family portrait“I really didn’t want to teach; I wanted to become a nun and I never had teaching in mind…but that didn’t work out so I started teaching and I was going to use it (teaching) as a stepping stone, but then I liked it and stayed,” she reflected.She was appointed Assistant Mistress in 1982 and Senior Assistant Mistress in 1989 after which she assumed the positions of Senior Mistress in 1998 and acting Deputy Head Mistress from January 2000.Rose later applied to transfer to the Edinburgh Primary School in the same region where she was appointed Head Mistress in January 2008 and would complete her longstanding career there as an educationist, and a respected one at that. The school that same year performed exceedingly well at the SSEE. She retired three years later.She vividly recalls giving free lessons to students. “That was one of the things I am proud of…I would keep everybody in the afternoons and we worked; we did reinforcement work in the afternoon so the children who could not afford it could have had lessons.”“Teaching does not have too many benefits; that’s why I say, for instance, it makes little difference if you fight for salary increases, because the cost of living goes up shortly after. Teachers should have incentives, and work for them, gaining a sense of pride. The only real benefit you get from teaching is seeing children you taught succeed as men and women.”Rose was also involved in writing of text books for the Easy Path series in Social Studies as a Committee Member in 1994.A touch of PoliticsMaking a simple, but earnest appeal (with her husband) to the President in May last, for a new East Bank Berbice roadAn unpleasant taste o
