JNHT to host teachers workshop
October 28, 2009
In keeping with its continued commitment of educating Jamaicans about their rich heritage, the Jamaica National Heritage Trust (JNHT) will be hosting a workshop for teachers at the Rio Nuevo Battle site in St. Mary on Thursday October 27, 2009 beginning at 9:00 a.m. The workshop is aimed at encouraging teachers to use heritage sites as part of their classroom teaching and to bring their students on school visits in a bid to make the heritage comes alive.
While heritage sites are listed as educational resources in the national curriculum, the JNHT would like to see more teachers using national monuments as part of their regular teaching. Moreover, the JNHT would like to show them a variety of different ways of using historic monuments and the stories behind them as an effective teaching tool in the classroom and on field trips. The lessons are not just limited to history and social studies, but also sociology, geography and economics among other areas.
The Rio Nuevo Battle site is an important marker in Jamaica's history. Once a Taino site, it was also the place where the final bloody battle between the Spanish and English forces was fought for total control of the island.
The Jamaica National Heritage Trust and the Rio Nuevo Battle Site Citizens Association officially opened the Rio Nuevo Battle Site Museum in St. Mary on Saturday July 18, 2009
Click for histroy of Rio Nuevo Battle Site
For further info contact
Coleen Douglas/Andrea Braham
922-1287-8/922-3990
