Beginning the Third Term at LDS College and Primary School

After finishing a course on Classroom Assessment with some of these wonderful teachers at the LDS College...I wanted to treat them with lunch. I asked a few people to show me how to make a dish called lolo fish. It is basically coconut milk fish. This included getting 6 coconuts grated and then squeezing by hand the cream first and then the milk out of the shredded coconut. I got wahoo,  yummy fish steaks at the market and combined them with onion and garlic and ginger and a green  spinach-like vegie called bele. Served it all with casava which is a pototo-like vegie. It was delicious and I felt very proud of my accomplishment. They ate it all up!

The Primary School Implemented a New Positive Behaviour Support Model

We had been teaching a course in the Primary school on Special Education in the General Classroom. Part of one unit was about Positive Behaviour Support which is a program used widely in the US to help teachers focus on positive behaviour and rewards in the classroom. It has had great success in changing the enviroment of schools and increasing scholastic outcomes. The schools here decided they would like to implent this program but we wanted to have an LDS focus. We waited a few weeks and it turned out that the church had an Area meeting of all the church schools in the South Pacific and what did they teach but a model of positive behaviour support for LDS schools. It was fairly amazing to us and we felt the Lord's hand in this. It is all laid out for us with implementation strategies. Because we had been working on the concepts for several months the Primary School was able to move quickly and implement it the first day of term. The following pictures are of the 6 B's as they are called. Be Grateful, be smart, be clean, be true, be humble and be prayerful. These are broken down into behavioural components for each area of the school ( ie. like library, classroom, bathrooms, cafeteria etc) They have had a wonderful week and the children are excited with this new positive focus and the rewards that come with it.