Course for Phys Ed Teachers opens in Tortola

TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands, October 4, 2013 – An International Course for Physical Education Teachers opened in Tortola on Friday under the auspices of the NORCECA Confederation through the Regional Development Center in Dominican Republic.

Twenty-one teachers from British Virgin Islands, Belize, Anguilla, Montserrat, St Kitts & Nevis, St Vincent & Grenadines and U.S. Virgin Islands.

The agenda of the course covers four days with practical and theoretical sessions focused on the way to initiate the students in the practice of volleyball and to teach the basic technical and tactical fundaments.

The opening ceremony took place in the afternoon hours of Friday at the Road Town Multi-Purpose Complex in Tortola in the presence of Sabinah Clement, president of the British Virgin Islands Volleyball Federation, Tony Westman, the instructor of the course designated by FIVB, Serwin Scatliffe, director of the local Phsyical Education teachers, and Yohanna Mota Moreno, vice director of the Regional Development Center.

The seminar forms part of the development plan of NORCECA Confederation in coordination with the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB).