Hi everyone! This is Nyla from Trinidad and Tobago. How are things in your part of the world? I understand that yesterday, some schools were closed due to the very cold weather. I had the day off to but it was not because of any snow.
Yesterday, I proudly dipped my finger into the electoral ink as I practiced my civil right to vote. In Tobago, we have island wide elections once every four years wherein in winning party gets to run the Tobago House of Assembly.
This has been a very exciting time for us and we (my fellow teachers at school and I) wanted our students to be aware of the election process. We held a mock election campaign, debate and voting on Friday. During the so-called debate, each scientist presented a short interview essay to describe himself as a person, his life and socio-political experience, the main 3-4 goals for a possible term of office. The creation of such conditional situations helps to better understand oneself and others, and also develops the ability to declare oneself, to be confident in one's decisions. The video below is a quick snippet of the winning party's campaign speech!
You can read more about it here at my teaching blog, Nyla's Crafty Teaching.
