ESHS teachers being trained in conflict resolution
Teachers at the Elmore Stoutt High School (ESHS) are now receiving conflict resolution training to better manage student behaviour and maintain a productive learning environment, officials said on Tuesday.
Chief Education Officer Orlandette Crabbe said the initiative aims to equip teachers with skills to de-escalate conflicts and engage students more effectively.
“We have started doing conflict resolution training with our teachers because we recognise that this is an area they need help with,” Crabbe said.
“I want to say that it is a difficult place to be in as a teacher when you come with your mission to educate and you have one or two children in your group that consistently are disruptive, disrespectful, and so on,” she added.
The programme comes as schools in the BVI face growing challenges related to student misconduct, including disruptive behaviour, low academic engagement, and confrontations with teachers.
Crabbe related that some students exhibit persistent behavioural issues that complicate classroom management. “Their logic and reasoning does not align with their chronological age,” she explained. “So you’re looking at children who don’t reason the way they should be reasoning. There’s no remorse. There’s no understanding. They’re never wrong… You see them do it [and] they still don’t own up to doing it.”
The training includes role-playing exercises, workshops, and discussions aimed at helping teachers learn effective communication strategies. Crabbe said the sessions are designed to teach teachers “how to speak to students, when to speak to them, and where to speak to them.”
The initiative is part of a broader strategy to improve school safety and learning outcomes amid reports of increased misbehaviour and contraband found on school grounds. ESHS has implemented stricter enforcement of the student code of conduct and introduced school resource officers to maintain order.
Meanwhile, Education Minister Sharie deCastro emphasised the need for community support to address behavioural challenges. “We are open to any potential resource because we need all hands on deck to fix this problem,” she said.
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i am a teacher not a referee, i won’t be breaking up any fights
“i am a teacher not a referee, i won’t be breaking up any fights”
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Hmmm. Based on what I just read, the conflict resolution training did not say anything about “breaking up fights”.
Clearly teaching is a tough and challenging job nowadays and to the extent that the way teachers communicate with their students could help them in any way, I personally see nothing wrong with it.
Now, I don’t wish to be mean to you, but you say you are a teacher. May I suggest you demonstrate that by writing grammatically correct. What you wrote there has no capitals, proper syntax or punctuation.
If you are just a teacher, consider start writing like one. If you write poorly here, what are you doing and saying in the classroom?
at this point i don’t care if they kill each other, as long as they don’t touch me
eshs makes me want to quit teaching
Well quit. Why stay in a job that you don’t like?
Not PC police persons , we’ve now got the talent to build them, thanks to Sharie.
More bandaids for gaping wounds!!!
I would very much appreciate it if you would give yourself a new screen name. I am the real LMAO, my screen name is always upper case letters, I’ve noticed on one of the other sites when I blog a comment under LMAO, it is changed to lower case letters. My comments is always blogged under LMAO, not lmao. I see right into the game. Please and thank you.
Lololololol!! Tooo funny jajajajaj
Self hatred is “athing”..it destroys everything and all.pepples inder the sun.
You build your countryvwithbtje worse and now demonstrate your lies of wondrous wonder how the place gone wild. No sympathy here there or anywhere. No future for this the VI septic tank of the CARICOM leakage. A job of self destruct,well done,ongoing and to be continued.
Will the teachers be entitled to combat pay?
A miniscule not too long ago unblemished haven of hardworking traditional families and extended families quickly reduced to a makeshift population of degenerates poverty illiteracy and criminality with international shipped in police and hundreds of unsolved murders and various crimes. What hapned?
Shoot first, ask questions later
Through an assorted array of Spiritual Evils, a few not good persons got rid of competent, experienced, effective and dedicated very good teachers.
The instituion and subsequently the students have been short changed, and mediocre pedagogy has been the masquarading principle of the day, especially within the Arts arena.
It is horrible how personal opinions and mal-philosophies can become so detrimental to current and future generations yet unborn.
I attended the BVI High School, and there were never so much nonsense going on. The then principal and Deputy Principals, Dr Charles Wheatley, Mrs Jenny Wheatley and Ms Adorathy Turnbull were also the security guards. The things that are happening on campus, in bathrooms and empty class rooms were never dreamt of then. Now the school has security guards who just sit at the gates waiting on the middle and the end of the month to hurry come.
@Elsa, that is for sure. And don’t forget Principal Elmore Stoutt. All they did was kept an eye out on every block, every bathroom every few minutes, constantly. They never stayed in their offices and when they had to they sent someone else. Why, because children will take chances when they know you are not looking. This starts at 2 years old. Now we have paid security guards and Principals and multiple deputies on campus and they can’t simply give instructions to the guards to walk around and constantly monitor everything. They themselves should take a turn and walk through. Teachers who do not have a class session can also put in ten minutes. That is all it takes to make sure the children know that somebody is always watching.
The most important thing is we have to care about the children. We have to want to teach them that the little mistakes their parents talk to them constantly about will harm their future. They are with you for 7 hours in a day, sometimes more. The security guards are paid to sit in the front and watch the traffic go by? Make them keep the students secure. That is their job. Just to walk around the campus constantly. Ah saw, the young are in charge and dropping the ball all over the damn place.