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“The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” Part 3

February 21, 2012 - 20:42

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Bad: Classes that are boooooring
By Gustavo Ramirez, Guidance Counselor / Education Consultant

“The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” Part 2

February 14, 2012 - 11:59

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By Gustavo Ramirez, Guidance Counselor / Education Consultant

“The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”

February 7, 2012 - 13:10

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By Gustavo Ramirez, Guidance Counselor / Education Consultant

Effective Ways To Deal With “Difficult” Students

January 25, 2012 - 16:29

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By Gustavo Ramirez, Guidance Counselor / Education Consultant - Many teachers (and school administrators) spend far too much time “talking to” difficult students; they must think that the more attention they give difficult students, the better educators they are.

Classroom Management

January 16, 2012 - 11:30

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By Gustavo Ramirez, Guidance Counselor / Education Consultant

New Year’s Resolution for Teachers: Have a Fun Classroom

January 9, 2012 - 11:26

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By Gustavo Ramirez, Guidance Counselor

Let's Start to Improve our Schools

December 22, 2011 - 14:29

By Gustavo Ramirez, Guidance Counselor - What’s standing in the way of our creating the best possible Education Systems in Belize to prepare our children for tomorrow? We must want it first, and then work to create it!

End of Year Notes: Education In Belize

December 13, 2011 - 14:27

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For Educators, Parents, and Everyone who cares about Education in Belize
By Gustavo Ramirez, Guidance Counselor

Dealing with Difficult Students

December 6, 2011 - 14:35

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Should two or three ‘difficult’ students take up most of an educator’s time? On the days when these students are absent, or pulled from class, everything seems to go smoothly. Teaching is fun; everyone seems more relaxed -- no interruptions. When they’re in class, though, they make a teacher want to pull his/her hair out.

Classrooms: Safe and Nourishing Havens for Students

November 29, 2011 - 16:54

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Almost everyone knows those very public cases of students who are gossiped about so openly by other students, teachers, and the community -- the student whose parents are alcoholics and who fight a lot, or the one whose drug dealing parent is no longer around. But, there are many other students with their very own secrets! Their deep secrets are hidden and locked away from everyone

Classroom Favorites

November 21, 2011 - 15:10

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- By Gustavo Ramirez, Guidance Counselor
Author's Note:

Keeping a classroom clean and conductive to learning

Classroom Management

November 15, 2011 - 13:49

Classroom management is not easy. How do you “manage” 32 or more different and restless teenagers in the same room every day, with each one displaying various levels of strengths and/or weaknesses in different subjects? Each teacher has no more than 45 minutes at a time to “manage” all of them, and bring out the best in each of them!

Who is a normal or average student?

November 9, 2011 - 11:19

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- By Gustavo Ramirez, Guidance Counselor - No two people are alike – not even identical twins. Each human being is unique and different, in one way or another, from every other human being. So then, if we are each different, our schools today should be set up to cater to the wide differences in students within each classroom.

A School’s Core Purpose

November 1, 2011 - 11:44

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by Gustavo Ramirez, Guidance Counselor

Advice from Gustavo Ramirez, Guidance Counselor

Good or Bad Teachers? Good or Bad Students?

October 25, 2011 - 14:38

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by Gustavo Ramirez, Guidance Counselor

San Pedro High Schoo, San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, Belize

Wake Up And Smell The Coffee!

October 12, 2011 - 14:46

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by Gustavo Ramirez, Guidance Counselor - First of all, let me thank all those San Pedro community members who responded (positively or negatively) online to the announcement of San Pedro High School’s new “In School Suspension” program.