“Teachers need to stop focusing on the small salaries and let teaching and assisting children become priority. They need to develop a love for their job and build a desire inside to be patient with, and ready to help their students.”??A retired headmistress at age 62, Joan James a/ka Teacher Patsy has contributed significantly to the education sector of Region #5 and presently spearheads several social and academic projects.Retired headmistress, Joan James, a/ka Teacher Patsy‘Teacher Patsy’ as she his fondly referred to by many, resides at Lot 42 Ferguson Street, Hopetown Village, West Coast Berbice, and although she has resigned from her post, says she still ‘cannot rest’. As such, she engages in several programmes geared at helping the youths in her area and also improving literacy among young Berbicians.Teacher Patsy is currently the Lay Minister of the St. Michael’s Mothers’ Union in her village, as well as Regional Officer for the West Berbice Mothers’ Union.She is also a committee member of the Executives of the Diocesan Mothers’ Union.The energetic educator also finds time to conduct a literacy programme, funded by the Ministry of Education, in her village, which is geared at assisting adults and school dropouts.On this project she works two hours daily helping slow learners on a reading programme which she opined has benefited many greatly. While the first phase of the project started in May 2007 and concluded in January of this year,
Cheap Jerseys USA, she has signed another contract that will last until December of this year.Commenting on the literacy programme, she noted that it has impacted positively on youths and adults who now have new hope and can read and spell fluently.Her groups are instructed in the subject areas of Reading, Comprehension, Oral Discussions, HIV/AIDS, Domestic Abuse, Teenage Pregnancy, Substance Abuse and other related issues.‘Teacher Patsy’ also holds the position of warden for the Parish of the St. Michael’s Churches.Intent on ‘giving back to the village’ and not only helping its inhabitants,
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Austin Hooper Falcons Jersey UK, deadlines are met, and will not cease working until she is satisfied that her duties are satisfactorily completed and the desired results are attained.‘Teacher Patsy’ joined the teaching profession in 1963 and started at the then Hopetown Congregational School as a ‘pupil teacher’, teaching students of level two. She noted that eventually attaining the post of headteacher in September 1992, while at the No. 29 Primary School,
Cheap Jerseys 2018, was no easy feat, since they were required to write end of year exams which were critical to any desired promotion.In 1962 she passed her Pupil Teachers’ Appointment Examination then later wrote the College of Precept Examination and passed eight subjects, excelling with distinction in Algebra and Arithmetic. This was followed some time later by the GCE exams in 1996 at which she excelled also.She subsequently trained at the Government Training College for Teachers from 1969 to 1971 when it was situated close to what is now Le Meridien Pegasus Hotel.After teaching as a pupil teacher at the Hopetown Congregational School, ‘Teacher Patsy’ was transferred to the Belladrum Primary School in 1988 as Deputy Headmistress. In 1992, she was called upon to function as Headmistress at the No. 29 Primary School and there she remained until she retired in 2002. ‘Teacher Patsy’ later returned to do a voluntarily two-year stint.In her early teens, she won a scholarship to the Berbice High School but since her dad died leaving her mother to fend for seven children, the young girl was forced to remain as a student at the Hopetown Congregational School. She related that her mom could not afford to send her to high school so she was forced to remain at the Hopetown Congregational and later enhance her curriculum vita
